Kiwoom, led by Lee Joo-hyung's home run, 'sweeps 3-game series' against NC for the first time in 2 years
Kiwoom, led by Lee Joo-hyung's home run, 'sweeps 3-game series' against NC for the first time in 2 years
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The professional baseball team Kiwoom Heroes completed a three-game sweep against the NC Dinos at home.
Kiwoom won 9-7 in the home game against NC in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Gocheok Sky Dome in
Seoul on the 27th, led by an active batting line and bullpen blocking.
It has been about two years since Kiwoom swept all three games against NC, since the games on July 8-10, 2022.
At that time, Kiwoom had Han Hyun-hee, Choi Won-tae, and Ahn Woo-jin as starting pitchers and all of them won. Han
Hyun-hee and Choi Won-tae transferred, and Ahn Woo-jin left the team due to military service.
Kiwoom, who gave up 3 runs in the top of the first inning, scored 2 runs in the bottom of the first inning with a timely
double by Ronnie Dawson and an RBI infield hit by Choi Joo-hwan.
In the second inning, leadoff hitter Byun Sang-kwon hit a solo arch off NC starting pitcher Shin Min-hyeok to tie the score
at 3-3, and with two outs, Dawson and Kim Hye-seong hit back-to-back RBI doubles to make it 5-3.
When NC narrowed the gap to 1 run in the top of the 4th with Kim Hyung-jun's sacrifice fly, Kiwoom immediately widened
the gap with Lee Joo-hyung's 2-run home run in the 토토사이트 bottom of the 4th.
Lee Ju-hyung came up to the plate with runners on first and second base and hit a high fastball from Shin Min-hyeok,
hitting a two-run home run, his sixth of the season, that hit the right wall of Gocheok Sky Dome.
Even after Kiwoom pulled Shin Min-hyeok off the mound, they added two more runs on a wild pitch from the opposing
team and a timely double by Choi Joo-hwan to take a 9-4 lead.
NC's league home run leader Matt Davidson hit a 140m two-run homer in the 5th inning, his 24th of the season, and in the
6th inning, Kwon Hee-dong hit his 3rd one-run homer of the season.
Kiwoom shut down NC's batting lineup by using the bullpen starting in the 7th inning.
Joo Seung-woo, who pitched in the 7th inning, and Kim Seong-min, who pitched in the 8th, tied up the NC batting lineup
with one scoreless inning, and closer Cho Sang-woo, who took the mound in the 9th inning, also pitched one inning to
secure a 9-7 victory.
Kiwoom starter Enmanuel De Geisus struggled with 10 hits (2 home runs), 10 strikeouts, and 7 runs (3 earned runs) in 6
innings, but with help from the batting lineup, he picked up his 9th win (4 losses) of the season and took sole possession of
the league lead in wins.