"First home run to rookie Park Jung-min." Austin's final shot! LG defeated Lotte in 'Visiting the Owner' and won eight consecutive games in seven years [Jamsil Field Review]

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The LG Twins beat the Lotte Giants, visited by owner Shin Dong-bin, at home, continuing their relentless eight-game winning streak, spurring the lone lead. The fixer was foreign batter Austin Dean.

LG beat Lotte 2-1 in its first regular season showdown of the "2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League" at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 14th. He scored the winning run in the eighth inning when the score was 1-1 to capture the game.

With this victory, LG has won eight consecutive games since the match against Kiwoom in Gocheok on the 4th. It has won eight consecutive games in seven years since May 2019. On the other hand, Lotte has lost two consecutive games and six consecutive games against LG, which has been going on since last season.

On this day, LG formed the starting lineup of Chun Sung-ho (third baseman), Moon Sung-joo (left fielder), Austin (first baseman), Moon Bo-kyung (designated hitter), Oh Ji-hwan (striker), Park Hae-min (middle fielder), Hong Chang-ki (right fielder), Lee Joo-heon (catcher), Lee Joo-heon (catcher), and Shin Min-jae (second baseman). The starting pitcher is left-hander Song Seung-ki.

Against this, Lotte made batting order in the order of Hwang Sung-bin (center fielder), Reyes (left fielder), Jeon Joon-woo (designated hitter), Han Dong-hee (third baseman), Kim Min-sung (first baseman), Han Tae-yang (second baseman), Yoon Dong-hee (right fielder), Jeon Min-jae (striker), and Son Sung-bin (catcher). Right-hander Na Kyun-an stepped up as the starting pitcher.

LG scored the first run in the first inning. After two outs, he showed his concentration. Austin hit a left-handed hit with two outs. In the next Moon Bo-kyung at-bat, he threw a wild pitch and became a second base with two outs. Here, Moon Bo-kyung made it 1-0 with a timely hit.

Lotte suffered an empty stomach until the sixth inning, but finally balanced it in the seventh inning. When LG starter Song Seung-ki went down from the mound, he scored. After one out, Han Tae-yang hit pitcher Woo Kang-hoon, who changed after one out, and Yoon Dong-hee's hit made it to first and third base with one out. Here, pinch hitter Roh Jin-hyuk made it 1-1 with a timely hit. However, Son Sung-bin, the follow-up hitter, withdrew due to a double play toward shortstop, and failed to turn the tables.

But in the bottom of the eighth inning, LG had Austin. Leading hitter Austin hit the first pitch (133km slider) of "newcomer" Park Jung-min, who took the mound at the start of the eighth inning, and fired a solo shot over the left fence. It was a big hit at the moment of the hit, and he didn't miss the high pitch. It was Austin's fifth home run of the season and the flying distance was 118.6 meters.

LG immediately put "Closer" Yoo Young-chan on the mound in the top of the ninth inning to end the game. Lotte's leadoff hitter Lee Ho-joon drew a walk, but Han Tae-yang's sacrifice bunt became a fly ball. Yoo Young-chan, who caught one out, threw the next Jang Doo-sung out with a fly ball to center field, but Roh Jin-hyuk hit the right-handed and drove to the first and third bases. However, he struck out pinch hitter Yoo Kang-nam and played well.

LG starter Song Seung-ki pitched six innings with three hits, five strikeouts, and no runs, but unfortunately failed to become a winning pitcher. Woo Kang-hoon allowed one run, but Kim Jin-sung and Yoo Young-chan, who took the mound afterwards, did not lose a point side by side. In the batting lineup, Austin hit hard with three hits (one home run) in four at-bats, including the final home run, and one RBI and two runs. Lotte starter Na Kyun-an held out well with seven hits and one run in five ⅔ innings, but unfortunately bowed his head due to the poor batting performance of the batters.

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