Samsung, a 'traditional prestigious club', finally established the first golden tower in KBO's 45-year history

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The Samsung Lions, a prestigious club with KBO league tradition, achieved 3,000 wins for the first time in the league's 45-year history.

Samsung, the first-year professional baseball team, won 13-3 at the regular season home game of the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League against the Doosan Bears at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 1st.

With this, Samsung had one draw and two losses since the opening of this season, and won its first valuable victory.

Samsung won 2,999 games from 1982 to 2025. And on this day, he finally won 3,000 games.

Samsung's veteran catcher Kang Min-ho also made history for the first time in the KBO league. Kang Min-ho won 3,000 games at the same time as he achieved a career record of 2,500 games.

Samsung starter Yang Chang-seop earned his first win of the season by allowing six hits, one walk, three strikeouts and two runs (two earned) in five innings. Lee Seung-hyun, Baek Jung-hyun, and Bae Chan-seung then took the mound in turn and pitched one perfect inning each. In the ninth inning, Lim Ki-young took the mound as relief and marked one hit (one homer) in one inning.

In the batting lineup, which had 13 hits in long and short, Kim Sung-yoon flew with four hits, four RBIs, and three runs in five at-bats. In addition, Diaz played 3 hits, 1 RBI, and 1 run in 4 at-bats. Kim Young-woong also contributed with multi-hitters. Koo Ja-wook marked one hit (one home run) in three at-bats, three RBIs and one run, and Kim Ji-chan marked one hit, two RBIs and three runs in three at-bats.

On the other hand, it was painful that starting pitcher Choi Seung-yong collapsed early with six hits, two walks, two strikeouts and five runs (four earned runs) in three innings. Park Shin-ji (3 runs), Choi Won-joon, Lee Yong-chan (2 runs), Choi Ji-gang (3 runs), and Park Chi-guk pitched one inning each. In a total of seven hits, Jung Soo-bin worked hard with multi-hitters. Doosan's team performance became one win, one draw and two losses.

Samsung scored three runs from the bottom of the first inning to take Doosan's lead. Kim Sung-yoon's timely triple to right-center, Koo Ja-wook's sacrifice hit, and Kim Young-woong's timely hit to right-center came out, respectively. Samsung made it 5-0 in the third inning with Ryu Ji-hyuk's two-run timely hit. Samsung continued its run to 8-0 in the fourth inning with Kim Sung-yoon's two-run double and Diaz's sacrifice hit.

Doosan recovered two runs in the top of the fifth inning with timely hits by Park Ji-hoon and Park Chan-ho. Then, in the bottom of the sixth inning, Koo Ja-wook sealed his first home run of the season with a two-run shot. In the seventh inning, Kim Ji-chan's two-run superior triple followed by Kim Sung-yoon's infield hit, and third baseman Kim Ji-chan ran home to 13-2. In the end, Samsung defeated Doosan 13-3 in the top of the ninth inning, which recovered a point with Kim In-tae's solo shot.

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