“Football is a game where 22 people chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end Germany wins.”
Gary Lineker (64), a soccer commentator for the British BBC, said this.
In that case, ‘Elot Lasico’ can be said to be a game where 20 people play ball for 216 minutes and LG ends up winning.
LG won a comeback victory over Lotte 9-6 in a professional baseball away game held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 25th.
LG’s Park Hae-min (34) led his team to victory by hitting a triple over Lotte center fielder Jang Du-seong (25) in the top of the 11th inning with two outs and bases loaded and the score tied 6-6.
LG has now recorded 9 wins and 2 losses in 11 El Lot Lasico games, which took an average of 3 hours and 36 minutes to play.
LG, currently in second place, has won seven consecutive games and is now six games behind leader KIA.
KIA’s 8-game winning streak ended with a 4-7 loss to NC in their home game in Gwangju on this day.
LG was trailing Lotte 0-5 until the end of the 4th inning that day.
LG, which started to pursue with a 3-run home run by Austin (31) in the top of the 5th inning, narrowed the gap to 4-5 in the top of the 7th inning when Oh Ji-hwan (34) hit a sacrifice fly with runners on 1st and 3rd base and no outs.
And in the top of the 8th inning, Shin Min-jae (28) hit a timely hit to tie the score at 5-5.
LG allowed a sacrifice fly to Park Seung-wook (32) in the bottom of the 8th to reverse the score to 5-6, but in the bottom of the 9th, with 2 outs and runners on 1st and 2nd base, pinch hitter Koo Bon-hyeok (27) hit a tying RBI single to extend the game to extra innings.
The two teams finished the 10th inning without scoring, and Park Hae-min finally scored the game-winning hit in the 11th.
Professional baseball has a 10-team system This is the first time since 2015 that a team leading by more than 5 points at the end of the 4th inning in an El Lot Lasico game has lost the game.am.
LG won the game even though starting pitcher Choi Won-tae (27) was taken off the mound after just 1/3 of an inning due to a ‘headshot’.
It has been 2,885 days (7 years, 10 months, and 25 days) since the last time an LG starting pitcher was responsible for only 1/3 of an inning in an El Lot Lasico game on August 31, 2016.
In Jamsil, last place (10th) Kiwoom beat Doosan 6-1 to avoid a series sweep.
Kim Yun-ha (19), a high school graduate rookie who was in charge of the Kiwoom starting mound on this day, pitched 7 scoreless innings and earned her first win since her debut.
Kim Yoon-ha is a player who became known as the 5th cousin of ‘Korean Express’ Park Chan-ho (51) while attending Jangchung High School.
Professor Park Hyeon-sun (52), the mother of Kim Yoon-ha, a former KLPGA player, is a first cousin of Park Chan-ho.
In Suwon, KT defeated SSG, who had been tied for 5th place until the day before, 4-2 to take sole 5th place.
KT, who gave up a run in the top of the second inning, turned the game around to 4-1 in the bottom of the second inning when Hwang Jae-gyun (37) hit a three-run home run and Shim Woo-jun (29) hit back-to-back home runs.
SSG chased one point in the top of the 8th with a timely hit by Lee Ji-young (38), but it was not enough to turn the game around.
The match between Samsung and Hanwha was cancelled due to sudden rain before the start of the match.
▽Starting pitcher for the game on the 26th △Jamsil: Hanwha Moon Dong-ju-LG Lim Chan-gyu △Moonhak: Doosan Balajovic-SSG Anderson △Daegu: KT Eom Sang-baek-Samsung Baek Jeo-hyeon △Changwon: Lotte Park Se-woong-NC Lee Jae-hak △Gocheok: KIA Nail-Kiwoom Kim In-beom
Reporter Hwang Gyu-in kini@donga.com
Source: www.donga.com
