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If the ball had fallen a little more, it could have given up a game that had been leading 4-0 for more than three hours. Veteran Lee Yong-chan (37), who overcame the crisis with his official records, credited his partner Yoon Joon-ho (26, Doosan Bears).
Doosan beat KT Wiz 8-7 in the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League regular season visit game held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 10th.
With this, Doosan recorded four wins, one draw and six losses with two consecutive wins, setting an opportunity for a rebound. KT, which has lost two consecutive games, tied for first place with 7 wins and 4 losses on the same day as SSG Landers won three consecutive games and LG Twins won five consecutive games.
It was a challenging game for Doosan even if it won. Starting pitcher Kwak Bin pitched well with one hit, four walks, and nine strikeouts in six innings, and Park Chan-ho and Park Jun-soon hit in the right place and scored the points needed to win. The 4-0 lead made in that way collapsed in an instant, giving up four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Doosan's bullpen, which regained its senses after losing a large amount of points, somehow balanced the KT must-win group to zero.
In particular, he broke out in a cold sweat several times in overtime, and Lee Yong-chan took the mound at the bottom of the 10th inning was a representative example. Lee Yong-chan seemed to end the inning easily by handling both the first two batters Ryu Hyun-in and Kwon Dong-jin. However, he gave Kim Min-seok a straight walk and Kim Sang-soo's missed ball fell into an ambiguous spot in the right outfield, facing a crisis of second and third bases.
Choi Won-joon's at-bat was simply desperate. Lee Yong-chan's second pitch low hit the ground and bounced hard, but catcher Yoon Joon-ho blocked it with his whole body. The 4th fork hit the ground again like the 2nd ball. However, Yoon Joon-ho couldn't find the ball at once, and in the meantime, Choi Won-joon, who was quick, reached first base. a strike-not-out wild pitch.
However, Lee Yong-chan finally overcame the bases-loaded crisis by catching the next batter, Kim Hyun-soo, with a ground ball to the second base. Later, Lee Yong-chan became the winning pitcher as he defeated KT's strong chase in the bottom of the 11th inning with four big innings in the top of the 11th inning.
After the game, Lee Yong-chan said, "It was dizzying when the not-out situation came out in the bottom of the 10th inning with two outs. However, fortunately, the ball did not bounce far, preventing the third baseman from scoring. Even before that, catcher (Yoon) Jun-ho blocked it brilliantly. I want to say thank you so much to Junho," he recalled.
It was the first time in 2,149 days that Lee Yong-chan became a winning pitcher wearing a Doosan uniform since the match against the Daegu Samsung Lions on May 22, 2020. A graduate of Shin Won-cho, Yangcheon Middle School, and Jangchung High School, he was a franchise star who joined Doosan in the first round of the 2007 KBO Rookie Draft.
Starting with winning the Rookie of the Year and the Save King at the same time in 2009, he has won two Korean Series titles (2016 and 2019) by starting and bullpen until 2020. In 2021, I kept the back door of the dinosaur corps heading to the NC Dinos. However, he suffered a slight decline and returned to his former team Doosan through the second KBO draft after the end of last season.
When he returned, he firmly supported his back as the eldest member of the pitching staff, and he also made Doosan's first consecutive win of the season. Lee Yong-chan said, "The fact that the team won is much more important than personal records. I'm happy to help the team continue its winning streak," he said with strength.
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