Park Se-woong, "Lotte Giants' eyeglasses ace," contributed to the team's victory with nearly perfect pitching against the Doosan Bears.
Park started in the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League match against Doosan held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on Sunday. Park overwhelmed Doosan with five hits (one homer) and one run, including nine strikeouts, and led Lotte to an 8-1 victory.
Lotte, which started the season with "winning contractor" Kim Tae-hyung, is struggling early in the season. Prior to the game, Lotte was tying with the Samsung Lions for ninth place with two wins and eight losses in 10 games. Park Se-woong's good pitching was desperately needed to rebound the mood.
Park overwhelmed Doosan's batters from the first inning. He made poor hits to Jung Soo-bin and Huh Kyung-min in the first inning. He gave a hit to Yang but struck out Kim Jae-hwan. In the second inning, he struck out Yang Seok-hwan, Kang Seung-ho and Kim In-tae.
In the third inning, Park faced his first crisis. He allowed a hit to leadoff hitter Park Joon-young, but turned Cho into a double play. Afterwards, he got a hit by Jung Soo-bin and even gave up stealing the second base. With two outs and a runner on the second base, Park calmly finished the inning by grounding Heo Kyung-min to the third base.
Park Se-woong returned Doosan's clean-up trio to three outs in the fourth inning, which led to Yang Eui-ji, Kim Jae-hwan and Yang Seok-hwan. Park allowed a solo home run to Park Joon-young in the fifth inning with two outs and no runners. Although he could have shaken up, Park struck out Cho Sun-haeng. In the sixth inning, Jung Soo-bin hit a single to get on base, but starting with the last batter Kim Jae-hwan, Park struck out Yang Seok-hwan, Kang Seung-ho and Kim In-tae in the seventh inning in a row.
While Park Se-woong put Doosan to rest on the mound, Lotte's batters exploded as well. Lotte scored as many as four runs off Doosan's native ace Kwak Bin in the bottom of the third inning. Lotte, who added two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, scored two runs again in the bottom of the seventh inning to seal the victory. 토토사이트 추천
In the match against the SSG Landers on April 24, Park endured well by allowing two runs in five innings, but failed to secure victory due to his team's loss. In the match against the NC Dinos on Thursday, Park suffered a setback due to overlapping defense errors, resulting in eight runs (five earned) in 3.1 innings. Park, who took the mound for the third time this season, displayed powerful pitching by striking out nine and allowing one run in seven innings, demonstrating his ace performance.