KIA, 20th win in 27 games… Yang Hyun-jong is the second player in history to record 170 wins, and Kim Do-young is the first KBO player to record a record.
The joy of the 20th win of the season was even greater as ‘Heart of the Tigers’ Yang Hyun-jong achieved 170 wins, the second in KBO League history, and ‘Second Lee Jong-beom’ Kim Do-young set the KBO’s first record of ’10 home runs and 10 stolen bases per month’.
KIA defeated Kiwoom Heroes 13-2 in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League visiting game held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the 25th.
KIA, who swept three consecutive midweek games against Kiwoom, was the first among the 10 teams this season to reach 20 wins.
Since the single league system was implemented in 1989, except for the period of the two major leagues (1999-2000), the team that achieved 20 wins first place in the regular season 22 out of 35 times (62.9%) until last year.
In 2017, when KIA recently achieved 20 wins, it won the combined championship (regular season and Korean series championship).
This year, they achieved 20 wins (7 losses) in 27 games, surpassing the record of ’20 wins (8 losses) in 28 games’ achieved in 2017 and 1993, and also set a new club record for ‘minimum 20 wins in a game’.
The KBO League record in this category is ’25 games’ achieved by the Hyundai Unicorns in 2000 and the SK Wyverns (now SSG Landers) in 2008 and 2010.
In the KBO, there are only two pitchers with more than 170 wins: Song Jin-woo (210 wins, 153 losses) and Yang Hyun-jong.
Yang Hyun-jong has 168 wins in the ‘starter wins’ rankings, and the gap with Song Jin-woo, who is second in starter wins (163 wins), is gradually widening.
Kim Do-young hit a solo arch in the top of the 5th inning, hitting 10 home runs this season.
Kim Do-young, who could not hit a single home run in March, hit 10 home runs in 21 games in April.
He has already stolen 11 bases in April.
10 home runs and 10 stolen bases per month is a record that even Eric Thames (NC Dinos at the time) in 2015, who had 40 home runs and 40 RBIs in the season, could not achieve.
The player who came close to this record before Kim Do-young was Son A-seop (currently NC), who played in the Lotte Giants uniform in August 2017. At that time, Son A-seop recorded 9 home runs and 10 stolen bases.
However, after two outs in the fourth inning, Lee Woo-sung got on base with a pitch that hit his body, Socrates Brito’s hit to right, and Kim Sun-bin’s walk gave the bases loaded.
Kim Tae-gun hit Lee Jong-min’s first pitch fastball and made a timely hit with 2 RBIs.
With the bases loaded and 2 outs following Choi Won-jun’s walk, Chan-ho Park scored an extra point with an infield hit next to the shortstop.
In the 5th inning, Kim Do-young, who appeared as the lead hitter, targeted Kim Seon-gi’s first pitch, a 143 km/h fastball, and hit a solo home run in the middle of the month.
After Kim Do-young’s solo shot, KIA bombarded the Kiwoom mound with consecutive hits by Choi Hyeong-woo, Lee Woo-sung, Socrates, and Kim Sun-bin, Kim Tae-gun’s push-off body hit, and Choi Won-jun’s heavy, timely hit.
KIA succeeded in reaching base with 7 batters in a row, including Kim Do-young’s home run, and scored 5 runs in the 5th inning alone to run away to 8-0.
Kiwoom made up for 2 points with Kim Hwi-jip’s two-run shot in the bottom of the 5th inning, but the pendulum had already swung in KIA’s favor.
Kiwoom has recently fallen into a swamp of four consecutive losses.
The losing streak against KIA, which started on August 16th last year, has extended to eight games.
/yunhap news
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