"The game goes well when you meet LG." Kiwoom is so confident. Kiwoom 5-2 home opener win → Alcantara gave up one run in 6 ⅓ innings + Brooks had 4 hits [Gocheok Field Review]

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"There is confidence among the players that the game goes well with LG."

The confidence expressed by Kiwoom Heroes coach Seol Jong-jin (52) before the game was never a pretense. Kiwoom reaffirmed its natural enemy relationship against "defending champion" LG at home, giving home fans a pleasant opening victory.

Kiwoom won 5-2 at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 3rd with the first showdown of the season against the "2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League" LG Twins and the strong performance of starting pitcher Raul Alcantara and foreign hitter Trenton Brooks, who had four hits.

With this victory, Kiwoom took the first game of the three consecutive games at the weekend, making it 2-4 all-time, and LG failed to win three consecutive games.

On this day, Kiwoom set up the starting lineup in the order of Brooks (first baseman), Lee Joo-hyung (middle fielder), An Chi-hong (designated hitter), Choi Joo-hwan (third baseman), Park Chan-hyuk (right fielder), Lee Hyung-jong (left fielder), Eo Jun-seo (striker), Kim Gun-hee (catcher), and Han Jung-gyeol (second baseman). The starting pitcher is Raul Alcantara, a right-handed foreign pitcher.

Against this, LG made batting order with Hong Chang-ki (right wing), Shin Min-jae (second baseman), Austin Dean (first baseman), Moon Bo-kyung (designated hitter), Park Dong-won (captor), Moon Sung-joo (left wing), Chun Sung-ho (third baseman), Koo Bon-hyuk (striker) and Park Hae-min (middle fielder). Right-hander Yoni Chirinos came forward as the starting pitcher.

It unfolded as a pitching match at the beginning of the game, but Kiwoom broke the balance of zero first. No. 9 hitter Park Han-kyul got on base with a hit to the right-center field, and the next Brooks hit the right fence with a double to get on the second and third bases with no outs. Here, starting with Lee Joo-hyung's timely RBI single to the right, Choi Joo-hwan's grounder to the second base made it 2-0.

With two outs and third base, Park Chan-hyuk's hit to second base led to an infield hit, making it 3-0. Park Chan-hyuk drew a safe decision with a head-first sliding, and the LG bench even tried to read the video, but it was not reversed.

LG also did not step down as it was. In the top of the fourth inning, leadoff hitter Austin hit Alcantara's three pitches (136km fork ball) with a ball-1 strike to hit a solo shot over the left fence. It was Austin's most powerful home run of the season. The flying distance of the ball is 120 meters.

However, Kiwoom ran away by adding one run each in the fifth and sixth innings. Lee Ju-hyung struck out after Brooks' double in the bottom of the fifth inning, but An Chi-hong's hit made it to first and third base. Here, Choi Joo-hwan brought Brooks home with a ground ball to the second base. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Brooks hit a timely hit with two outs and a runner on second base to run 5-1. It was the moment Brooks completed a four-hit game.

LG also did not give up the game easily. After two outs in the top of the seventh inning, Hong Chang-ki's double and Shin Min-jae's single were combined to make the first and third bases, and Austin's timely hit came out to recover one point to narrow the gap between 2-5 and 3 points.

Kiwoom starter Alcantara won his first game of the season in two 경기 with six hits (one homer) and seven strikeouts and one run in six games. In the batting lineup, Brooks was simply brilliant with four hits, one RBI and two runs in four at-bats. Lee Joo-hyung and Park Chan-hyuk hit multi-hit side by side, adding firepower. On the other hand, LG Chirinos became a losing pitcher with nine hits, one walk, six strikeouts and four runs in five innings. Austin worked hard with three hits, but he bowed his head to defeat unfortunately.

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