Samsung ended KIA’s seven-game winning streak with a first-half victory.
카지노사이트The Samsung Lions won 4-1 against the KIA Tigers in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at KIA Champions Field in Gwangju on 13 March. They avenged a loss the day before. The Lions finished the first half in last place with 31 wins and 49 losses. KIA ended a six-game winning streak. They finished sixth with 36 wins, 39 losses and one tie.
Samsung ace David Buchanan pitched nine innings of two-hit ball, striking out eight and walking one to improve to 7-6 on the season. KIA ace Yang Hyun-jong suffered his fifth loss of the season (5-5) after allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits and six walks with one strikeout in five innings. With the win, he moved into a tie for second place in career starts (370).
There was trouble in the top of the third. Kim Sung-yoon singled up the middle to put runners on first and second. Samsung’s Jose Pirela hit an errant grounder and ran inside the fair/foul line. Yang Hyun-jong, catcher, throws to first. First baseman Choi Won-joon’s vision overlapped Pirela’s main path and Yang Hyun-jong’s throw. The KIA bench appealed for Pirela’s defensive interference, but the video review showed that Pirela’s run was normal and Yang’s throw was an error. Manager Kim Jong-guk was sent off for strongly appealing to umpire Oh Hoon-kyu. It was his second ejection of the season after the 16 June game against Gwangju NC.
Samsung continued their chances and scored the first run of the game on Yang Hyun-jong’s fastball after Kim Sung-yoon reached third base. In the top of the fourth inning, leadoff hitter Ryu Ji-hyuk singled to right-centre, followed by Kim Jae-sung’s two-run shot to right one inning later.
In the meantime, Samsung held on for the win as Buchanan continued to pitch well. In the top of the eighth, Ryu Ji-hyuk led off with a single, Lee Jae-hyun followed with a sacrifice bunt and Kim Jae-sung walked to put runners on first and second before Kim Dong-jin drove in the winning run with a single to left field.
KIA put runners on second and third in the bottom of the ninth as Choi Won-jun singled to left and Kim Do-young doubled to centre. Na Sung-beom grounded out to first base, allowing Choi Won-joon to score to preserve the win.
[From top to bottom: Buchanan, manager Kim Jong-kook, Kim Jae-sung and Samsung players. Photo courtesy of Samsung Lions, KIA Tigers].