The Lotte professional baseball team celebrating their home game victory on the 16th.
Lotte is facing a very unfortunate situation.
Lotte won 4-0 against Kiwoom in a professional baseball home game held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 16th.
Lotte has now recorded 8 wins and 2 losses in the last 10 games.
This is the first time this season that Lotte has won more than 8 games out of 10.
With this win, 7th place Lotte has 49 wins, 3 draws, and 56 losses (win rate of 0.467), and is now 1.5 games behind 6th place KT (54 wins, 2 draws, 58 losses, win rate of 0.482).
KT was crushed 0-5 by Doosan in the home game in Suwon on this day.
The irony is that both games Lotte lost were started by 'homegrown ace' Park Se-woong (29). Lotte's last 10 games can be summarized as 'win → win → win → win → Park Se-woong → win → win → win → Park Se-woong → win'. However, unlike the Suwon KT game on the 9th where Park Se-woong pitched 4 innings and allowed 8 runs, the game against Doosan at Jamsil on the 15th was more like bad luck. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, when the score was 3-0, with 1 out and runners on 1st and 3rd base, the ball got caught in the glove of 3rd baseman Son Ho-young (29), and the inning was not ended with a double play. After that, the momentum of the game shifted to Doosan's side, and Lotte ended up losing 3-4. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung, who personally went up to the mound and reprimanded Park Se-woong during the Suwon game, also expressed regret, saying, “(When the ball got stuck in his glove) that’s when the momentum really stopped.”
The first game of the three-game weekend series after returning to Sajik was different.
Son Ho-young hit a two-run home run (his 12th of the season) in the bottom of the first inning to give the team the lead.
Lotte continued to score two more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning with a sacrifice fly by Son Seong-bin (22) and a timely hit by Hwang Seong-bin (27), leading 4-0.
Lotte starting pitcher Barnes (29) pitched six scoreless innings, and Kim Sang-soo (36), Koo Seung-min (34), and Kim Won-joong (31) also finished the game without giving up a run.
Lotte finished the game without giving up a single run to the opposing team, just like Barnes’ previous appearance against Suwon KT on the 3rd.
Barnes was out of action for 43 days due to a thigh injury, but returned in the second half of the season.
He has achieved a “quality start” (6 or more innings pitched as a starter, allowing 3 or fewer earned runs) in every one of the 7 games in the second half.
In these 7 games, in which Barnes had an ERA of 1.57, Lotte recorded 6 wins and 1 loss.
Barnes said, “I go up to the mound with the thought that if I pitch long innings and give up fewer runs, my teammates will be able to play comfortably as well.” He added,
“I’m satisfied because I’ve been putting my thoughts into practice recently.”
The leading KIA team won 3-2 against second-place LG in a game at Jamsil.
KIA was down 0-2 in the top of the 9th inning, but Kim Do-young (21) hit a timely double and Na Sung-beom (35) hit a 2-run home run to turn the game around.
Third-place Samsung won 7-3 against its home team NC in Changwon, catching up with LG by half a game.
On the other hand, NC fell to 9th place for the first time this season after losing 8 games in a row.
Hanwha, which was in 9th place until the day before, beat 5th-place SSG 2-1 in a game at Munhak. 카지노사이트