Hold No. 1 - Save No. 1 Both Collapse...In the 9th inning of 'Song Jae-young → Koo Seung-min → Kim Sang-soo', the master was determined to win
Hold No. 1 - Save No. 1 Both Collapse...In the 9th inning of 'Song Jae-young → Koo Seung-min → Kim Sang-soo', the master was determined to win
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I felt a determined will to win without fail. He expressed a firm will to win by all means allowed and eventually caught it.안전놀이터
The Lotte Giants, led by head coach Kim Tae-hyung, came from behind to beat the NC Dinos 4-3 in Game 4 of the Nakdong River Derby held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on Sunday. With the win, Lotte narrowed its gap with the top-ranked LG to 0.5 games.
On the day, Lotte took a 2-0 lead thanks to consecutive timely hits by Reyes and Yoon Dong-hee in the first inning. On the mound, starter Na Kyun-an continued to display stellar pitching. He pitched six ⅓ innings with one out in the seventh inning, allowing three hits, two walks and four strikeouts.
The team was in a crisis with runners at the first and second bases with one out. Immediately after Na Kyun-an, Lotte deployed Jeong Cheol-won, who is the winner of the game and the No. 1 hold (nine holds), to protect the team. First of all, Jeong overcame the crisis of losing points in the seventh inning by hitting Kim Hyung-joon with a fly ball to the center field and Park Kun-woo as a pinch hitter with a ground ball to the pitcher. Jeong roared.
However, the problem started in the eighth inning. Jeong Cheol-won who came up for multi-inning allowed a walk to Han Seok-hyun, the first batter, and a double to Kwon Hee-dong after a game of nine pitches, causing danger to the second and third bases with no outs.
In the end, Lotte put in left-hander must-winner Chung Hyeon-su. He grounded out to second base to replace Kim Joo-won, the first batter, and changed his score and out count. It was 2-1, and Park allowed a walk again to reach the first and third bases with one out.
Manager Kim Tae-hyung showed off his ability to secure early deployment of Kim Won-joong, who is currently atop in saves (nine). He allowed Park to steal second base, intensifying the crisis with one out and runners on the second and third bases, but he caught Davidson with a shallow fly ball to the right field, taking a breather. He then intentionally put Son on four pitches.
With two outs and the bases loaded with two outs, Kim faced Seo. However, Kim was not sharp in controlling the ball, and he gave up a walk after a full count match. The score was tying 2-2. Since then, Kim Hyung-joon threw wildly at the batter's box. The game turned around 2-3 in an instant. The game turned upside down without allowing a timely hit.
Lotte ended up trailing behind in the bottom of the eighth inning. However, the players did not give up. With one out and one out in the eighth inning, Hwang Seong-bin's hit to the left, Ko Seung-min's hit to the right, and Reyes' throw made the bases loaded with one out again. And Na Seung-yeop, the cleanup hitter who already hit the finishing hit in two consecutive games, hit a two-run double as a priority to force the team to turn the game around 4-3.
Yoon Dong-hee and Jeon Jun-woo stepped down side by side with one out and runners on the second and third bases. Lotte's best scenario was to get additional points, but it couldn't. First, it entered the top of the ninth inning with a 4-3 lead again.
In the top of the ninth inning, Lotte put down its closing pitcher Kim Won-joong and put in left-hander Song Jae-young. Considering that Koo Seung-min and Kim Sang-soo were warming up, Lotte intended to block the ninth inning through a match of volume.
Song treated left-handed batter Han Seok-hyun, his first batter, with a foul fly at first base. Manager Kim Tae-hyung replaced pitcher with Koo Seung-min with Kim Jae-hwan at bat. Manager Lee Ho-joon of NC Dinosaurs also replaced Park Si-won as a substitute. Koo was hit by Park Si-won's double to the right-center. Again, he was at risk with one out and runners on second base. Koo caught Kim Joo-won with a fly ball to the center field, making it two outs and runners on second base.
Manager Kim Tae-hyung then changed pitchers once again. He even deployed Kim Sang-soo. He expressed his commitment to secure a one-point victory at a time when there is no closing pitcher. Things went as planned. With runners on second and second bases with two outs, Kim Sang-soo guided Park Min-woo to a groundout to the second base, ending the game. Kim enjoyed a thrilling upset with his unique roaring ceremony.
His commitment was conveyed to the players as well. After the game, Na Kyun-an said, "I was a little surprised when I saw the replacement of the pitcher in the ninth inning. However, I thought it could be that way when I saw the atmosphere going by," he said.
At the same time, he explained that the players are now moving well as coach Kim Tae-hyung intended. "Now, even if the coach doesn't talk about it, the players know when the coach moves, so I think there is a good team atmosphere or an atmosphere to win," Na Kyun-an said. "The most important thing for the coach is to win. And I've grown in that area because he trusts the players well and gives good advice before that. I think it's because the coach trusted me a lot."
Perhaps due to manager Kim Tae-hyung's winning move, Lotte is leading the league with four wins and one loss in this season's one-point game. As such, the team is becoming a strong team in close games and has become qualified to lead LG.