Choi Ji-min and Jeon Sang-hyun are here. Why? Jang Hyun-sik's fighting spirit in three innings...KIA's 14-1 lead prevented a catastrophe
Choi Ji-min and Jeon Sang-hyun are here. Why? Jang Hyun-sik's fighting spirit in three innings...KIA's 14-1 lead prevented a catastrophe
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Professional baseball KIA Tigers Jang Hyun-sik showed his fighting spirit and blocked the game that almost led to a disaster.
KIA was tied 15-15 in the 12th inning of extra time in the match against Lotte Giants at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 25th.
On the same day, Kia hit the mound at the Lotte Giants with a razor-thin strike. The team already crushed Lotte starter Na Gyun An early on. In the first inning, Seo Geon-chang got on base with a walk, and Socrates hit a superior two-run shot. He hit his 15th home run of the season. Since then, Kim Do-young has hit a double that directly hit the top of the right fence, and Choi Hyung-woo's timely hit to the right side has added one more run.
Na Sung-bum's double on the left field continued his chances of getting second and third bases with no outs. Lee Woo-sung's infield hit to the third baseman brought in a runner on third base. Six hitters got on base in a row, and five hitters in a row. The team led 4-0. Choi Won-jun had a foul fly to the first baseman, and Han Jun-su had a strikeout to make it to the first and third bases with two outs, but Park Chan-ho's timely hit added one more run to lead the game 5-0 in the first inning.
KIA crushed Na Kyun-an without mercy in the top of the second inning as well. Leading hitter Kim Do-young got a walk. Na Sung-bum and Choi Hyung-woo were out, but Lee Woo-sung and Choi Won-jun consecutively drew walks, creating an opportunity to load the bases with two outs. In the end, the opponent team scored one more run due to wild pitching, and Han Jun-su's two-run double broke out with runners on the second and third bases with two outs. The team ran away with the score of 8-1. 고소득알바
In the third inning, Kia scored one more run due to Na Sung-bum's timely hit, when it had a chance to hit the third base with two outs, which was caught with leadoff batter Socrates' double and Choi Hyung-woo's grounder to the second base. The score made it 9-1. Then, in the top of the fourth inning, KIA seemed to be definitely sealing its win. Choi Won-joon, Han Jun-su and Park Chan-ho had three consecutive hits to load the bases with no outs, and Seo Geon-chang's timely hit to the right field gave up one run, and Socrates' two-run double to the right field occurred. Later, first baseman Na Seung-yeop made a mistake of not being able to catch Choi Hyung-woo's hit. In the fourth inning, he added five more runs, widening the gap to 14-1.
On the mound was ace James Nail, who has the highest ERA this year. It was safe to say that the victory was a given. It was safe to say that the celebration shot was fired early. However, the game turned into a strange trend as Kim Do-young made an error due to Na Seung-yeop's batting in the bottom of the fourth inning. Lotte didn't hesitate to slap Nail. Eventually, the gap narrowed to 14-7 as he allowed six runs in the fourth inning alone, including a grand slam to Ko Seung-min.
He also allowed two more runs in the fifth inning. Nail was substituted after allowing 11 hits (one homer) and two walks, four strikeouts, and nine runs (four earned runs) in five innings.
In the end, Kia failed to block Lotte's pursuit of the team. In the end, the team allowed three runs in the sixth and seventh innings, and the team even suffered a come-from-behind 14-15. The unprecedented disaster resulted in a 13-point deficit. If the game ends like this, Kia would fall victim to a come-from-behind victory with the largest gap in score history. However, Hong Jong-pyo's timely hit in the eighth inning made the game 15-15, and extended the game to extra time.
And Jang Hyun-sik, who took charge of the mound from the eighth inning onwards, played a big role in preventing the disaster by blocking three innings. Jang Hyun-sik, who perfectly blocked the eighth to ninth innings, but faced a crisis of being hit to the right by leadoff hitter Na Seung-yeop in the 10th inning, a sacrifice bunt by Junghoon Lee, and a right-handed hit by Oh Sun-jin, putting him on the verge of a one-out, first and third base hit. The crisis of a walk-off disaster.
KIA could have replaced the mound. Choi Ji-min and Jeon Sang-hyun still had to win. However, Kia saved Choi Ji-man and Jeon until the end. KIA had its own fatigue management system, and they had to take a rest on the day. Choi and Jeon took the mound in both of the two doubleheader games against the Hanwha Eagles held in Gwangju on Sunday. In the first round of doubleheader, Choi threw 12 pitches in one inning, and Jeon also threw 15 pitches in one inning. In the second round, Jeon threw 26 pitches in one inning, and Choi also threw 18 pitches in one inning.
Since he played all the double headers, it was close to a rest group and he was delaying his appearance as much as possible. This is why Jang Hyun-sik had no choice but to take responsibility for the 10th inning.
However, Jang overcame the crisis by himself. He automatically threw out Park with four balls on purpose, struck out Seo and grounded out Hwang with one out and the bases loaded with one out, to overcome the crisis. He roared off the mound.
In the end, Kia overcame the crisis, and as the game continued, it had no choice but to field Choi in the 11th inning. Choi blocked two innings to end the game with a draw of 15-15.