"Wow, all innings lost except for the 7th inning." Lotte's home opener catastrophic → 2-17 defeat to SSG... Almost 'all innings lost' for the first time ever!

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Lotte Giants collapsed helplessly to SSG Landers in their home opener. It was a humiliating defeat that almost fell victim to the disgraceful record of "all innings lost" that was the first in KBO league history.

Lotte suffered a crushing defeat of 2-17 in its first showdown of the season with the "2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League" SSG at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 3rd. After two consecutive wins in the opening period, the team has lost four games in a row.

The game is summarized as the collapse of the Lotte pitching staff and the explosion of the SSG lineup. Lotte showed a disastrous performance by giving up points every inning from the first to the ninth inning except for the top of the seventh inning. If he also lost a point in the seventh inning, he would have written the all-time disgraceful record of "all innings from the 1st to the 9th inning" for the first time in KBO history. The electronic display marked the number 1-3-3-1-1-3-0-2-3.

The only scoreless inning was when Lee Min-seok, the second pitcher of Lotte, blocked Jung Joon-jae, Kim Jae-hwan and Ko Myung-jun with three outs in the top of the seventh inning. Lee Min-seok left the final record of five hits (one homer) with four walks and one strikeout and two runs in three innings.

Above all, Lotte suffered from starting pitcher Rodriguez's poor performance. Rodriguez, who pitched five scoreless innings against Samsung on March 28, was hit hard by SSG hitters. The final result was nine hits (two homers) in four innings, five walks and eight runs. The number of pitches was 90. Shin Dong-gun, a rookie in the first round, also had a strong reporting ceremony with one hit and four walks in one inning in his debut.

On the other hand, SSG starter White won the game by allowing two runs and quality start plus (QS+) in seven innings. In the batting lineup, Park Sung-han recorded 4 hits and 4 RBIs in 5 at-bats and Jihoon Choi recorded 2 hits and 3 RBIs in 4 at-bats, scoring 15 hits and 17 points. In particular, Jihoon Choi produced a rare scene in which he added a ground home run.

On the other hand, in Lotte, Han Dong-hee, who returned to the first team through the NC Dinos match the previous day (2nd), scored three hits and one point in four at-bats, raising his sense of hitting.

Lotte, which caused great disappointment to fans in its home opener, is set to promise the next game with the heavy task of escaping four consecutive losses. On the 4th, Lotte's starting pitcher heralded Jeremy Bisley. The starting pitcher for SSG against this is left-hander Kim Gun-woo.

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