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Baseball’s leading LG Twins snapped a three-game losing streak with a sweep of their ‘Jamsil rivals’ Doosan Bears.LG came from behind to win 7-4 against visiting Doosan in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on Monday. LG, which had lost three straight games after reaching the 80-win plateau due to a recent batting slump, accelerated its progress toward securing first place in the regular season. With the NC Dinos losing to the Hanwha Eagles earlier in the day, LG’s “magic number” to qualify for the Korean Series is three. The LG bats took full advantage of Doosan’s vaunted Raul Alcantara .Alcantara, who has been known to struggle against LG, was tagged for 13 runs on 13 hits (two home runs) in 6 1/3 innings with two walks and seven strikeouts. That’s the most runs he’s allowed in a single game this season .Including this game, Alcantara’s record against LG is 3-3 with a 7.88 ERA.LG opened the scoring in the top of the second inning with a double by Oh Ji-hwan and an RBI single by Park Dong-won. They tied the game in the third inning when Cho stole second base and catcher Ak Song-goo threw him out at home, but regained the lead in the fourth inning on Moon Sung-joo’s RBI double. In the fifth inning, the Doosan offense came up with a strange play. With two outs, Yang Seok-hwan hit a grounder that LG second baseman Shin Min-jae fumbled and threw to first base, and the first base umpire called it out. With three outs, both the Doosan third baseman and second baseman reached base. At this point, the Doosan bench requested a video review of the first baseman, Yang Seok-hwan, and the KBO Replay Center declared Yang’s save and allowed the Doosan second baseman to score .The reasoning was that even if the first baseman threw home, it would have been difficult to prevent the second baseman from scoring .Doosan took a 3-2 lead thanks to the call, and LG manager Yeom Kyung-yup was ejected for protesting. It was Yeom’s second ejection of the season for protesting a video replay .LG used their bats to get back into the game .In the top of the sixth inning, Moon Sung-joo tied the game with a single and then pinch-hitter Kim Min-sung singled to make it 4-3.With one out, Hong Chang-ki hit a sacrifice fly. In the seventh inning, one out later, Austin Dean and Oh Ji-hwan combined for back-to-back bases-loaded home runs to extend the lead to 7-3.Austin’s home run was his 22nd of the season, while Oh’s was his eighth. It was also LG’s third “back-to-back” home run of the season. un shot in the eighth inning. LG starter Lee Ji-gang picked up his second win of the season (3-2) against Alcantara, going six innings, throwing 101 pitches with three hits, two walks and three strikeouts. 카지노사이트 Lee also earned her first career quality start (6+ innings, 3 earned runs or less).

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