There is no gap between Kim Kwang Hyun and Kim Min Jun' Choi Min-joon deleted 5 innings → Choi Jung's final shot! SSG, Kiwoom won 11 Kiwoom by a landslide. [On-site review of Incheon]

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SSG Landers, who started after losing two starting pitchers before the season, is cruising with a performance that does not feel a gap at all.

SSG won 11-1 at the home game of the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League against the Kiwoom Heroes at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 2nd due to starter Choi Min-joon's five scoreless innings and the explosion of the batters who scored 12 hits.

SSG, which had won three consecutive games, immediately avenged its 2-11 defeat the previous day. With this, he recorded 4 wins and 1 loss and maintained the second place. On the other hand, Kiwoom won the previous day after three consecutive losses, but immediately suffered a crushing defeat and remained at the bottom with 1-4 losses.

The key to SSG was whether substitute starter Choi Min-joon played or not. Coach Lee Soo-yong met with reporters before the game and said, "I can move faster because I see you throw it. Yesterday, I also wanted to get Takeda out a little quickly. "I thought the same way as coach Kyung Heon-ho," he said, "Then I will use (former) Young-jun again, and I have to think about the back, so I have to overcome it." The same was true of White. I think you have to run it like that in the beginning so that you can make the season long. Of course, it's not easy to endure," he said.

The bench didn't move quickly. Choi Min-joon started the game nervously in the top of the first inning by walking leadoff batter Trenton Brooks, but then started the game in a good mood by hitting three batters.

In the bottom of the first inning, Choi Jung hit a two-run shot over the left fence against Chung Hyun-woo. a season-high home run. Choi Jeong-eun has increased the record of the No. 1 home run in KBO history to 519.

Choi Min-joon, who finished the second and third innings without a major crisis, returned Ahn Chi-hong, Choi Joo-hwan and Kim Gun-hee, the central batters of Kiwoom, to KKK in the fourth inning.

In the bottom of the third inning, the batters ran away two more runs with Lee Ji-young's walk and Park Sung-han's double, and Ko Myung-joon's additional timely hit.

Choi Min-joon, who also took the mound in the fifth inning, walked Park Chan-hyuk and Eo Jun-seo, but he made a double play by inducing Park Hang-yeol to fly ball to center field and Choi Jae-young to make a double play in front of the pitcher.

Following Park Sung-han's double in the bottom of the fifth inning, the batters added three more runs by tying one point with Herredia's timely hit and four hits and one walk in the bottom of the sixth inning. At the bottom of the eighth inning, Jihoon Choi's wedge two-run shot also burst.

He was able to secure a pleasant victory without operating the must-win group due to the early difference in scores. From the sixth inning, Jeon Young-joon, Baek Seung-gun (one inning or more), and Han Doo-sol (two innings) pitched scoreless pitching to complete the team's victory.

Choi Min-joon pitched 81 pitches in five innings to win his first victory of the season with one hit, three outs and five strikeouts. It is the first start victory in 1,640 days since the game against the LG Twins on October 5, 2021.

In the lineup, Park Sung-han played the role of a table setter with three hits, two RBIs and three runs, and Herredia played the role of a table setter with two hits and three RBIs, while Choi Jeong-eun scored two RBIs and Ko Myung-joon also had two hits and two RBIs with the first home run.

Kiwoom starter Chung Hyeon-woo threw 84 pitches in five innings, allowing five hits (one homer) and three strikeouts, and six runs.

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