The Doosan Bears swept a three-game series against the Lotte Giants in what could be the most important game of the season in the standings battle ahead of the All-Star break. Doosan reclaimed fifth place and closed the gap on fourth-place Lotte to one game.
Doosan completed a three-game weekend series with the Lotte Giants of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League with a 4-2 victory in the eighth game of the season at Munsu Baseball Stadium in Ulsan, South Korea. With the win, Doosan leapfrogged the Kiwoom Heroes into sole possession of fifth place and closed the gap on fourth-place Lotte to one game. 메이저사이트
Although he didn’t get the win, Doosan starter Raul Alcantara played the role of ‘ace’ perfectly, throwing 101 pitches in six innings, striking out seven, walking five and allowing two runs (two earned) in a quality start (six innings, three runs or less). Kim Myung-shin (1⅔ innings), Park Chi-guk (⅔ innings) and Jeong Chul-won (⅔ innings) came in and locked the back door.
At the plate, Yang Seok-hwan led the way with five hits (including the game-winning home run), two RBIs and one run scored, while Heo Kyung-min had five hits and two RBIs, Jose Rojas had one hit, two walks and one run scored, and Lee Yoo-chan had one hit, two walks and one run scored.
Like the previous two games, it was a tight pitching battle. Both Doosan and Lotte were stymied by their respective starting pitchers in the first through fourth innings. Lotte’s “hairy ace,” Dan Straily, was in trouble twice early in the game, 메이저도메인 with runners on second and third in the first inning and runners on first and second in the second inning, but he got out of the jam with an infield fly. In the third and fourth innings, both teams left one runner on base, but no runs scored.
Doosan “Ace” Alcantara pitched a little more solidly than Streeley. Alcantara gave up a leadoff single to Ko Seung-min in the top of the first inning, but he got the next batter, Yoon Dong-hee, to fly out to end the inning without allowing a run, and in the second inning, he struck out the batting order of Jack Rex, Joon-woo Jun, and Seung-wook Park for a triple play. He continued his streak of no-hitters with two outs in the third and the bases loaded in the fourth.
The momentum shifted in the fifth inning. Doosan started the inning with a leadoff single by Jose Rojas, and then Lee Yoo-chan drew a walk to connect the dots. Luck was also on their side. With runners on first and second, Jung Soo-bin’s routine grounder to the first baseman allowed Lee Yoo-chan to reach first base as Ko Seung-min lingered to catch the runner heading for second. From there, Doosan took advantage of the opportunity as Heo Kyung-min hit an RBI single to bring home both runners to make it 2-0.