Lotte rally from 0-4 to beat LG, win 6th straight
The Lotte Giants came from behind to beat the LG Twins 6-4 at Jamsil on the 24th, extending their winning streak to six games. Down 0-4 after LG scored four in the bottom of the third, Lotte answered in the fifth with consecutive RBI hits from Na Seung-yeop, Victor Reyes and Jeon Min-jae, then took a 5-4 lead on Son Seong-bin’s two-run double. Na added an insurance run with an RBI single in the eighth. Lotte racked up 15 hits, and starter Elvin Rodríguez earned his 10th win (11 losses) despite allowing four runs with nine strikeouts over five innings. Seventh-place Lotte (59-2-71) moved within 1.5 games of sixth-place NC, while LG, whose seven-game winning streak ended, fell 3.5 games behind second-place Samsung.
Source: Star News
Koo Ja-wook drives in 3 as Samsung edge SSG
The Samsung Lions beat the SSG Landers 5-4 in Incheon on the 24th for their second straight win. League batting leader Koo Ja-wook had three hits and three RBIs, delivering an opening RBI double in the third and a two-run single in the seventh, while Jeon Byeong-woo added his 11th solo homer of the season in the sixth. Starter Ariel Jurado allowed two runs over seven innings to earn his eighth win (1 loss), lowering his ERA to 3.12. SSG rallied from 0-5 to 4-5, but closer Kim Jae-yoon got the final four outs from two outs in the eighth to record a career-high 34th save of the season. Second-place Samsung (78-3-52) stayed three games behind leader KT, while SSG, on a two-game skid, slipped to eighth.
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Daniel fans 10 as KT reach 80 wins first
League leader KT Wiz beat the NC Dinos 3-2 at home in Suwon on the 24th to become the first team to reach 80 wins this season (80-4-48). Starter David Daniel struck out 10 over seven scoreless innings, allowing three hits and a walk, to earn his fourth win (2 losses). Sam Hilliard opened the scoring with a solo homer in the second, his 39th of the season, moving into a tie for second in home runs and a tie for first in RBIs (122). KT made it 3-0 in the fourth on a wild pitch and a Kim Sang-su sacrifice fly, and although Blaine Crim hit a two-run single in the ninth, Kim Jung-un held the lead. According to Newsis, teams that reached 80 wins first have won the regular-season title 95.2% of the time (20 of 21). NC fell seven games behind fifth-place Doosan.
Source: Newsis
KT’s So Hyeong-jun to start Asian Games clash vs Japan
KT Wiz right-hander So Hyeong-jun will start for Korea against Japan in the baseball Super Round of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Ryu Ji-hyun’s Korean team faces Group A winner Japan at 6:30 p.m. on the 25th at Toyohashi Municipal Stadium in Aichi Prefecture. Korea topped Group B by beating Chinese Taipei (5-0), Hong Kong (13-0) and Thailand (18-1), and carries its win over Chinese Taipei into the Super Round. So, the only pitcher on the roster yet to throw a pitch in the tournament, was the 2020 KBO Rookie of the Year and is 8-3 with a 3.38 ERA in 20 games this season. Korea plays Group A runner-up China in its second Super Round game on the 26th.
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Kim Jae-yoon sets save record, now eyes 40
Samsung Lions closer Kim Jae-yoon, 36, recorded his 34th save of the season against SSG on the 24th, breaking his previous single-season best of 33 set in 2022. He also widened his lead over second-place Son Joo-young (LG, 30 saves) to four. It was his second straight multi-inning save after the NC game on the 22nd. When reporters told him after the game that he had set a new personal record, he laughed, saying he thought he had already reached 34 before. “Now that I’ve broken the record, I want to get even more. I’ll just set it at 40,” he said. On the race with leader KT, three games ahead, he said that while the team is aiming for first, it must give its best one game at a time.
Source: Star News