KT piles on the wins Alford, Byung-ho Park hit home runs to beat Samsung

KT Wiz continued its hot streak in its second game in four days.

KT won 6-4 at home against the Samsung Lions in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at Katie Wiz Park in Suwon on May 31.

Second-place KT has won four straight games to keep the pressure on the first-place LG Twins.

KT played for the first time in four days after playing the Lotte Giants on April 27 due to persistent rain.

After a long break, 섯다 KT didn't falter and pushed Samsung hard.

KT jumped on Samsung's Hong Jung-woo in the first inning.

Samsung had originally scheduled foreign pitcher Taylor Widener to start the game, but he was pulled after feeling sick.

KT opened the scoring in the top of the first inning when Jae-dae Choi led off with a single to left, stole second, and scored on Hwang Jae-gyun's walk and Anthony Alford's single to left.

KT gave up a run in the top of the second to tie the game, but in the bottom of the inning, they capitalized on a bad pitch from Hong Jung-woo.

With the bases loaded after singles by Oh Yoon-seok, Shin Bon-ki, and Choi Jae-dae, 온라인섯다 Hwang Jae-gyun hit a two-run double to left field against reliever Kim Dae-woo to make it 3-1.

What looked like an easy win was tied in the bottom of the third inning thanks to a series of errors, big and small, by the infielders.

KT starter Wes Benjamin gave up back-to-back infield singles to Kim Hyun-jun and Kim Sung-yoon, and Kang Min-ho's infield grounder allowed Kim to score from third.

Then, Jose Pirela's hit was misplayed by shortstop Shin Bon-ki, allowing another run to score and tie the game at 3-3.

The game tilted again in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Hwang Jae-gyun's throw was missed by Samsung second baseman Kim Ji-chan, allowing a runner to reach first base, and Alford followed with a two-run homer to left field to regain the lead.

With the lead in hand, 카지노사이트랭크 KT brought in closer Park Young-hyun in the eighth inning. After giving up a solo home run to Samsung Pirela and a walk to Oh Jae-il, KT immediately brought in closer Kim Jae-yoon.

Kim struck out Ryu Ji-hyuk on a grounder to shortstop to put out the fire.

After surviving the crisis, KT drove a wedge into the game in the bottom of the eighth inning when Park Byung-ho hit a massive 125-meter solo home run over the center field wall.

Park went 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, one RBI and one run scored.

Hwang Jae-gyun went 1-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and one run scored, becoming the 12th player in program history to reach 1,000 career hits and 1,000 career runs scored.

Benjamin improved to 14-5 on the season with seven innings of seven-hit ball, striking out five and allowing three runs (two earned).

Park Young-hyun was shaky, allowing one run in ⅔ of an inning, but picked up his 28th win of the season, 고스톱 setting a new KBO record for most wins in a season by a 20-year-old pitcher.

The previous record was 27 held by Han Hyun-hee (now of the Lotte Giants) in 2013.