Hanwha's lucky foreign player Peraza is roaring after hitting a walk-off home run against Kiwoom on the 10th.
Was it thanks to the president's intuition and the support of the packed crowd?
Hanwha achieved an unbelievably thrilling comeback victory after a close game that lasted until the 10th inning.
In the home game against Kiwoom held at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on the 10th, Hanwha won 5-4 thanks to foreign hitter Jonathan Peraza's walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th overtime.
Hanwha broke away from a three-game losing streak and now has 15 wins and 23 losses (winning percentage of 0.395). Hanwha, which was in 9th place until the previous day, tied with its opponent Kiwoom on this day and moved up one place to 8th place. On the other hand, Kiwoom has recently fallen into a swamp of 7 consecutive losses.
Even before the game, the atmosphere heated up as Hanwha team owner Kim Seung-yeon, chairman of Hanwha Group, visited the baseball stadium with about 500 executives and employees of affiliates. Chairman Kim visited the baseball stadium again 42 days after the KT game on March 29, which was the home opener of this season. At 6:34 p.m., four minutes after the game started, 12,000 spectators filled the stands. It was the 17th full crowd this season.
Hanwha got off to a fresh start in the bottom of the second inning, scoring three runs thanks to Jeong Eun-won's timely hit, a wild pitch from the opponent, and a fielder's choice. Sanchez, who started as a starter, also continued his fight without allowing any runs until the fifth inning.
However, as they failed to take advantage of the opportunity with 2 outs and 1st and 2nd bases in the 3rd inning and 2 outs and 1st and 3rd bases in the 4th inning, Kiwoom was allowed to chase. Sanchez, who was pitching well, allowed three consecutive hits to Donny Dawson, Kim Hye-seong, and Lee Joo-hyung after two outs in the sixth inning, giving up one run. In the 7th inning, with no outs on 2nd and 3rd base, Kim Jae-hyun's 2 RBI hit to the right field tied the score at 3-3.
At this moment, right fielder Peraza made a decisive defensive error. After following Lim Ji-yeol's hit from Laina Seong, he held out his glove, but the ball went into the glove and came out. Because of Peraza's error, what should have been a 1 out and 1 base situation turned into 1 and 2 bases with no outs. Hanwha removed Sanchez from the mound and brought in Lee Min-woo in relief, but Lee Min-woo gave up a timely hit to left-center field to substitute Lee Yong-gyu, allowing a 3-4 comeback. However, in the ongoing crisis, Lee Min-woo treated Ronnie Dawson with a short fly ball to center field and then struck out Kim Hye-seong and Lee Joo-hyung on consecutive missed swings to prevent additional runs.
The main contributor to turning the game around once again was Peraza, who provided the excuse for the comeback. Peraza hit a left-field hit against Kim Jae-woong in the 8th inning and then stepped on second base on a wild pitch. Afterwards, Moon Hyun-bin hit home on a timely hit to the right, tying the score at 4-4.
Peraza, who came back to the plate as the leadoff hitter in the bottom of the 10th inning, completed a dramatic victory by catching Kim Dong-hyuk's high fastball in the middle of the fourth pitch and hitting a walk-off home run that flew over the right-center field fence. It was his first walk-off home run in the KBO League. Peraza, who hit his 12th home run of the season, became the sole leader in home runs, beating Choi Jeong Hanyu Island (SSG), Kim Do-young (KIA), and Kang Baek-ho (KT, 11).
Hanwha, which won the game on March 29 when Chairman Kim Seung-yeon visited thanks to Lim Jong-chan's walk-off hit in the bottom of the 9th inning, achieved another dramatic walk-off victory today.
In the visiting game to Gwangju, SSG won 4-2 over leader KIA, led by new foreign pitcher Drew Anderson's good pitching and Park Seong-han's 4 hits. Anderson, who joined as a substitute player, had a successful debut against the KIA lineup, allowing 3 hits, 1 walk, and 6 strikeouts in 3 innings. SSG led 1-0 until the 6th inning, but was hit by a superior two-run gun from Han Jun-su in the bottom of the 7th, allowing the lead to go back to 1-2, but they immediately took the lead in the top of the 8th inning. Park Seong-han's timely double tied the game, and with the bases loaded and two outs, Ji-young Lee's hard hit to shortstop sent two runners home. KIA Choi Hyung-woo hit his 500th career double for the first time in the KBO League, but the shine was overshadowed by the team's loss.
In the Jamsil game, where teams that had won 5 games in a row until the previous day, Doosan defeated KT 7-3 and recorded 6 consecutive wins. Doosan was defeated early by starting pitcher Yu-seong Kim allowing 2 hits, 3 walks, and 2 runs in 1 1/3 innings, but the bullpen, which started in the 2nd inning, allowed 1 run in the remaining 7 2/3 innings, earning a valuable victory.
In the batting lineup, Kim Jae-hwan hit a two-run home run. Foreign hitter Ramos played an active role with 3 hits (1 home run) and 2 RBIs in 4 at-bats. Kim Jae-hwan, who hit a two-run home run in the first inning, achieved his 100th home run at Jamsil Stadium. He is the third player to hit 100 home runs at Jamsil Stadium, the largest baseball stadium in Korea, following Kim Dong-ju (formerly Doosan) and Kim Hyun-soo (LG).
Defending champion LG defeated Lotte 9-1 and won three games in a row. LG's starting pitcher, Ens, became the winning pitcher after pitching well, allowing 1 run in 6 1/3 innings. Lotte, which had been on a 5-game winning streak until the previous day, could not continue its winning streak and could not even get out of last place. Lotte's defense committed five errors and destroyed themselves that day.
NC defeated Samsung 10-3 in the Changwon game thanks to Kim Joo-won's grand slam in the 7th inning. 사설토토
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