The four-game winning streak disappeared before our eyes.
The Hanwha Eagles, who had won three straight games, gave up the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning of extra innings against the Changwon NC Dinos on the 17th. They lost the game 9-10. The Eagles could have won four straight games and jumped into the mid-table race. NC came back from the brink of a four-game losing streak.
Trailing 7-9 in the bottom of the ninth inning, NC No. 1 Son Asub hit a two-run home run to tie the game. The game went into extra innings, and in the bottom of the 10th inning, the NC bats came alive.
Leadoff hitter Yoon Hyung-jun opened the inning with a double to left field. Kim then singled up the middle against Kim Kyu-yeon to bring home the runner from second. A game-tying hit to end a long game. After utilizing their bullpen in the previous two games, Hanwha was unable to get the final out.
Before Son’s game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth, Hanwha foreign-born Nick Williams was the hero.
He batted second and left field and had three hits. In the top of the fifth inning, with runners on first and third, he hit a two-run double to right field. It was the game-winning hit in a 2-3 deficit.
Trailing 4-5 in the top of the seventh, he hit another “one”. With nobody out, he hit a two-run double to right field to tie the game. 5-5. Then the Hanwha center field exploded. No. 3 Roh Si-hwan hit an RBI single and No. 4 Chae Eun-sung blasted a two-run homer. 8-5.
Williams hit a bases-loaded double to right in the top of the eighth, trailing 8-7. Three hits, three RBIs. It was overshadowed by the team’s loss in extra innings.
Hanwha’s “Gojoluki” Kim Seo-hyun gave up three runs in two innings in his first start. His 150 kilometers per hour fastball was powerful, but he was overpowered by strikeouts.
He planned to throw 100 pitches and was removed 토토사이트 after throwing 44. She faced 13 batters and gave up three hits, four walks, and struck out one.
The NC bats came out swinging against Kim Seo-hyun. With two outs in the bottom of the first, No. 3 Park Gun-woo hit a two-run double to left field. Jason Martin followed with an RBI single to right field to take the lead.
In the top of the second, the Hanwha bats came alive. Two batters later, Lee Jin-young, Jang Jin-hyuk, and Park Sang-un tied the game with back-to-back singles.
The batting support didn’t help Kim Seo-hyun. He gave up three walks to load the bases. He then gave up a single to right to Son Asub. The next batter walked.