The Doosan Bears smacked three dwelling runs, together with a pair by No. 8 hitter Kang Seung-ho, as they defeated the NC Dinos 10-5 at dwelling to step nearer to a postseason berth within the Korea Baseball Group on Tuesday.
Kang slapped a go-ahead solo dwelling run within the backside of the second inning at Jamsil Baseball Stadium within the capital metropolis, earlier than delivering a two-run shot that prolonged the Bears’ result in 4-1 within the fourth inning.
Jared Younger added a two-run homer of his personal within the three-run fifth inning, and the Bears’ bullpen put up zeroes within the last three innings.
The Bears improved to 72-68-2 (wins-losses-ties) to remain in fourth place. With yet one more win over their two remaining video games, they are going to safe no less than fifth and the ultimate postseason spot.
The Dinos, eradicated from the postseason race final Thursday, fell to 60-75-2. This was the primary recreation below interim supervisor Kong Capsule-sung, who took over after supervisor Kang In-kwon was fired Friday.
The Bears will go to the Lotte Giants within the southeastern metropolis of Busan on Thursday and end the season towards the Dinos in Changwon, simply west of Busan.
The Dinos have essentially the most video games remaining within the league with seven.
The Bears scored within the backside first with cleanup Kim Jae-hwan driving in Jung Soo-bin, who’d drawn a leadoff stroll and reached third after a sacrifice bunt and a groundout.
Website positioning Ho-cheol’s RBI triple tied the rating at 1-1 for the Dinos within the prime second, however then Kang got here proper again along with his solo homer within the backside half of that inning.
The Bears by no means trailed once more the remainder of the sport.
Kang’s second lengthy ball of the night put the Bears up 4-1. Website positioning answered with a solo dwelling run within the prime fifth to chop the deficit to 4-2, solely to see the Bears put up a three-spot within the backside fifth.
Younger’s line drive shot simply cleared the precise area wall to offer the Bears a 6-2 lead. After a Kim Jae-hwan double, Yang Suk-hwan hit an RBI single to heart to make it a 7-2 recreation and chase starter Lee Jae-hak from the sport.
The Dinos refused to go down with out a struggle.
With Bears starter Choi Seung-yong out of the sport after 5 strong innings, the Dinos jumped on reliever Hong Geon-hui.
Cheon Jae-hwan greeted Hong with a single and Matt Davidson launched his KBO-leading forty sixth dwelling run of the season to heart, making it a 7-4 recreation. Kim Hyung-jun’s two-out RBI single introduced the Dinos inside 7-5 and knocked Hong out of the sport.
The Bears then killed any hope of a Dinos comeback with two insurance coverage runs within the backside sixth.
Kang reached on a throwing error by third baseman Kim Whee-jip and superior to second when the ball sailed into the bullpen. Jo Soo-haeng put down a sacrifice bunt again to pitcher Kim Tae-hyun, whose errant throw skipped previous first baseman Davidson and allowed Kang to attain.
After Jo was sacrificed over to second, Kim Jae-ho prolonged the Bears’ result in 9-5 with a single. Kim picked up one other RBI within the eighth.
After Hong’s implosion, the Bears’ bullpen held regular.
Proper-hander Choi Jong-in labored 1 2/3 scoreless innings for his first profession maintain, whereas Park Chi-guk added 1 2/3 scoreless frames.
Along with his two homers and three RBIs, Kang prolonged his career-high marks to 18 dwelling runs and 80 RBIs.
No.2 hitter Kim Jae-ho contributed two hits and two RBIs. He has six RBIs in eight video games this month, after recording simply 5 RBIs 47 earlier video games.
This was the Bears’ last dwelling recreation of the season. The sport drew 22,064 followers on the 23,750-seat stadium, because the Bears completed the season with a membership file of 1,301,768 followers. (Yonhap)