Baseball’s Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop has won back-to-back games in the Jamsil Rivalry with his ‘venomous baseball’. Despite using substitute starters in the fourth and fifth spots, the Bears won two straight games against the champions LG. They recovered from a 5-to-1 favorite. It will be interesting to see if they can improve their odds to 5 and move up in the mid-table race.
Doosan took two of three from LG in the Children’s Day series (the fifth game was rained out). With ace Alcantara out injured, youngster Young-gun Lee took over as the starter, and his cool quick hook and aggressive bullpen maneuvering helped the team win one or two close games.
Kim Yoo-seong was the starting pitcher for the third game. The second-year pitcher made his first professional start on April 26 against Hanwha in Daejeon and earned his first win. Kim held the LG bats to one run on four hits and two walks through three innings. 카지노사이트 There were some threats, but he managed to keep the damage to a minimum.
In the fourth inning, with a 5-1 lead,
Kim gave up a leadoff walk to Moon Sung-joo, who promptly retired the side. Park Chi-guk came in as the second pitcher, throwing 72 pitches and facing the bottom of the order (No. 7).
Park singled with two outs to put runners on first and second. With the top of the order on left, left-hander Lee Byung-heon came in to save the day.
After Kim Yoo-sung, the bullpen of Park Chi-guk (⅔ scoreless innings), Lee Byung-heon (1 1/3 scoreless innings), Kim Kang-ryul (1 scoreless inning), Choi Ji-kang (1 scoreless inning), and Hong Gun-hee (1 scoreless inning) secured the 6-4 victory.
In Game 4, starter Choi Jun-ho allowed two runs on five hits with two walks and two strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings before being replaced by Quickhook. Choi worked around a bases-loaded walk in the first inning and a bases-loaded walk in the fourth without allowing an earned run. In the top of the fifth inning with a 3-0 lead, Oh gave up a triple to right-center to lead off the inning and was followed by a single to Shin Min-jae. A walk to Hong Chang-ki and a single to right by Park Hae-min loaded the bases.
With two outs to win the game,
Lee walked Choi Jun-ho and brought in the second pitcher, Lee Byung-heon, who had the game-winning hit. Lee gave up a run on a sacrifice fly to Kim Hyun-soo, but got Austin to fly out to center to preserve the 3-2 lead.
The bullpen of Lee Byung-heon (1⅔ scoreless innings), Kim Taek-yeon (1⅔ scoreless innings), Choi Ji-gang (⅓ scoreless inning), and Hong Gun-hee (1 scoreless inning) held the game scoreless to preserve the one-run victory.
Two consecutive quick-hook decisions and a bullpen finish Hong Gun-hee was forced to pitch a three-game series from Samsung Electronics on the 2nd to LG on the 4th and 5th. Pil Seung-jo Lee Byung-heon pitched three of the four games from Days 1-4, and Choi Ji-kang pitched four games in the last five days. Lee chose to use his bullpen a bit more heavily, including Hong’s three-game stint, in light of the rain forecast for the fifth day.
Doosan is 4-1 against LG this season with back-to-back wins on March 3-4.
Last year, they were outscored by LG 5-11, but this year has been a 180-degree turnaround. Doosan has slipped from the 5-point favorite since losing 4-4 on March 31, 메이저사이트 while LG’s winning streak has taken them to 18-19. They were negative for the entire month of April, but are now the closest they’ve ever been to a 5 percent win rate.
Doosan hosts Kiwoom and KT this week. Injury-riddled Kiwoom has dropped to seventh place with three straight losses and a 2-8 record in 10 games. A win against Kiwoom will get them back to the 5 percent chance.