Kiwoom Heroes snapped a 13-game home losing streak

The baseball team Kiwoom Heroes snapped a 13-game home losing streak.

Kiwoom won a 10-3 home game against SSG Landers of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on April 19.

Starting pitcher Kim In-beom pitched five innings of two-run ball to earn his second win of the season, while foreign-born slugger Ronnie Dawson had three hits and four RBIs, including a game-winning RBI single in the fifth inning and a walk-off three-run homer in the eighth.

With the win, Kiwoom snapped a 13-game home losing streak at Gocheok dating back to last month’s 17th game against KT, and remained in seventh place with a 19-26 record (.422 winning percentage). It has been 33 days since the team won a home game against KT (6-3) on March 16th. SSG, whose two-game winning streak ended, 토토사이트 is 25-21-1 (.543 winning percentage).

It was SSG who struck first. In the top of the first inning, Choi Ji-hoon doubled to left-center off Kiwoom starter Kim In-beom, followed by Park Sung-hwan’s RBI single to right to quickly score the first run.

Kiwoom evened the score with a home run in the bottom of the inning.

Lee Ju-hyung took a four-pitch outside slider from SSG starter Oh Won-seok over the center field wall. It was his second home run of the season, traveling 125 meters.

In the top of the fifth, SSG regained the lead after Choi Ji-hoon singled, Park Sung-hwan walked, and Guillermo Heredia doubled to left field. 사설 토토사이트 Ha Jae-hoon followed with a walk to load the bases, but Kim Min-sik grounded out to right field to end the threat.

Kiwoom tied the game in the bottom of the fifth inning. With runners on first and second after walks to Kim Hui-jip and Kim Gun-hee, Go Young-woo laced a single to right to tie the game at 2-2, and Kiwoom scored two more runs on Dawson’s single to right and Kim Hye-sung’s grounder to second to take a 4-2 lead.

In the top of the sixth,

SSG cut the deficit back to one run with singles by Choi Joon-woo and Han Yoo-seom and an RBI single to left by Park Sung-sung, but Kiwoom scored three runs against the SSG bullpen in the bottom of the sixth. After singles by Byun Sang-kwon, Park Soo-jong, and Kim Jae-hyun against Choi Min-joon, Kiwoom added a run on a pushoff single by Go Young-woo, and then scored on a double by Kim Hye-sung to left-center off reliever Noh Kyung-eun.

In the eighth inning, with runners on first and second, Dawson blasted a three-run home run over the middle of the infield off Kim Joo-on, a 130-meter shot that put the game out of reach. Dawson finished the game 3-for-5 with a home run, his seventh of the season, and four RBIs. Despite being the lowest-priced foreign player this year ($600,000 total), Dawson has been the best bang for the buck this season, batting .348 (64-for-186) with seven home runs and 27 RBIs in 45 games.

In addition to Dawson, Go Young-woo was 2-for-4 with two doubles, two RBIs and one walk, Byun Sang-kwon was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Kim Jae-hyun was 2-for-2. With support from the bats, Kiwoom starter Kim In-beom improved to 2-1 on the season with five innings of six-hit ball, three walks and two strikeouts. It was his second consecutive start after his debut win on April 14 against Jamsil LG Electronics. SSG starter Oh Won-seok suffered his third loss of the season (3-3) after giving up four runs on five hits (one home run), three walks, 메이저 토토사이트 and four strikeouts in five innings. Park Sung-ki went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs and a walk, but was unable to prevent the loss.