14 hits without Kim Sung-yoon and Lee Jae-hyun! Samsung beat KT 8-6 and won 4 consecutive games... "No hit in 15 at-bats → 3 hits." Kang Min-ho finished it [Suwon Field Review]

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The Samsung Lions proved why they were called the strongest lineup in the league before the season. Despite the bad news that the two main fielders left before the fifth inning, they exploded 14 hits and secured a winning series to KT Wiz.

Samsung beat KT 8-6 in the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League regular season visit game held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 4th. Samsung, which has won four consecutive games, maintained its fourth place with four wins, one draw and two losses. KT lost its second straight game and slowed down to 5 wins and 2 losses.

On this day, right fielder Kim Sung-yoon was replaced in the bottom of the second inning due to discomfort in his left side, and shortstop Lee Jae-hyun was replaced in the bottom of the third inning due to right hamstring pain. Nevertheless, Samsung overwhelmed KT in the firepower match. Kang Min-ho, who had been silent with no hits in 15 at-bats in five games before this game, saw the effect of the downgrade in batting order properly. Kang Min-ho was the first and last to go in the 9th batting order against Jamsil Doosan on June 5, 2009, when he was a Lotte Giants player.

In his first batting order in 17 years, Kang Min-ho hit hard with three hits and four RBIs in four at-bats. All the hits were nutritious. He hit a timely hit with two outs and a third base in the top of the fourth inning when he was losing 4-5, and decided the game with a timely two-run hit in the top of the eighth inning with one out and runners on the second and third bases.

In addition, it was encouraging that Kim Young-woong, who was struggling with a poor batting average of 10%, hit a large double in his last at-bat. In addition, Lewin Diaz made four hits (one home run) in five at-bats and Ryu Ji-hyuk marked three hits and three runs in four at-bats. In KT, Ryu Hyun-in was the only multi-hit with two hits and two RBIs in four at-bats. There were 11 hits in total, but it was sporadic.

The starting pitchers erased the loss due to the batting performance. Samsung's Choi Won-tae was sluggish in five innings with seven hits, four walks, eight strikeouts and five runs, while KT's Soh Hyung-joon was sluggish in six innings with nine hits (two homers) and one walk and seven strikeouts and six runs.

On this day, Samsung consisted of Kim Ji-chan (center fielder), Kim Sung-yoon (right wing), Koo Ja-wook (left wing), Lewin Diaz (first baseman), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Ryu Ji-hyuk (second baseman), Lee Jae-hyun (striker), Kim Young-woong (third baseman), and Kang Min-ho (catcher). The starting pitcher is Choi Won-tae.

Against this, KT consisted of Choi Won-joon (center fielder), Kim Hyun-soo (designated hitter), Ahn Hyun-min (right wing), Sam Hilliard (left wing), Jang Sung-woo (fosu), Kim Sang-soo (second baseman), Oh Yoon-seok (first baseman), Ryu Hyun-in (third baseman), and Lee Kang-min (striker). The starting pitcher is Soh Hyung-joon.

Unlike the previous day (3rd), a slugfest was unfolded. In the top of the first inning, leadoff hitter Kim Ji-chan got on base with a heavy hit, and Diaz called home with a superior two-run shot. Samsung's 2-0 lead. The leadoff hitter went out in the top of the second inning. Ryu Ji-hyuk got on base with a heavy hit, second base when Lee Jae-hyun grounded out, and Kang Min-ho's timely double to right-center. Samsung's 3-0 lead.

KT turned the game around with a single shot as this year's catchphrase (THE BIGINING). KT quickly filled all bases in the bottom of the second inning with Jang Sung-woo's left-handed hit, Kim Sang-soo's walk, and Oh Yoon-seok's right-center hit with one out. Ryu Hyun-in, the "Futures batting king," gained momentum with a timely two-run hit. Special rookie Lee Kang-min then tied the game 3-3 with a timely RBI single to the right. Soon after, Kim Hyun-soo came from behind with a two-run timely double on the left field line.

However, Samsung had Choi Hyung-woo, the "fourth batter of the dynasty," who returned. Choi Hyung-woo hit the Soh Hyung-joon's 141km/h first-pitch cutter to hit a big ball over the right fence. The second shot of the season with a distance of 135m.

Ryu Ji-hyuk continued the atmosphere by making a double in left-center and Lee Hae-seung's sacrifice bunt with one out and third base. Soh Hyung-joon struck out Kim Young-woong with a swing and miss, but allowed Kang Min-ho to tie the game 5-5 due to a timely RBI.

Samsung turned the game around. Samsung's Koo Ja-wook hit a double on the left-field line with one out in the top of the fifth inning. Diaz scored a timely RBI single to make the game 6-5.

KT also scored after a long wait. Ahn Hyun-min fired a solo shot to the left in the bottom of the seventh inning with one out. But the joy didn't last long. In the top of the eighth inning, leadoff hitter Ryu Ji-hyuk hit a right-handed hit, and Kim Young-woong hit a double to the right-center directly on the fence, and Kang Min-ho made a comeback with a timely two-run hit.

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