'With' KIA finally found explosive 'perfect batting order'! '2nd Seon-bin → 3rd Do-young → 4th Adellin → 5th Ho-ryeong → A total of 8 hits' After one loss to Doosan, now a winning series... [Gwangju On-site Review]

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KIA Tigers defeated the Doosan Bears to become the protagonists of a midweek three-game winning series.

KIA secured a 5-3 victory over Doosan in a 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League regular-season home game held at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field on the 14th.

With this win, KIA achieved two consecutive victories following a loss to Doosan on the 12th, finishing the series with two wins and one loss. They now stand at 19 wins, one tie, and 20 losses, needing just one more win to reach a .500 winning percentage. Meanwhile, Doosan fell into a two-game losing streak, recording 18 wins, one tie, and 21 losses.

KIA set its starting lineup in the following order: Park Jae-hyun (right fielder), Kim Seon-bin (designated hitter), Kim Do-young (third baseman), Adellin (first baseman), Kim Ho-ryeong (center fielder), Yoon Do-hyun (second baseman), Han Seung-yeon (left fielder), Kim Tae-gun (catcher), and Park Min (shortstop). Starting pitcher for KIA was Hwang Dong-ha.

Doosan arranged its starting lineup as follows: Jung Soobin (center fielder), Son Ah-seop (designated hitter), Park Jun-soon (second baseman), Cameron (right fielder), Kim Min-seok (left fielder), Yang Eui-ji (catcher), Oh Myung-jin (first baseman), Park Ji-hoon (third baseman), and Park Chan-ho (shortstop). Starting pitcher for Doosan was Benjamin.

Doosan scored first. In the bottom of the second inning, leadoff batter Cameron reached base with a line drive single to center field. After one out, Yang Eui-ji hit a two-run home run over the left-field wall.

KIA immediately turned the game around in the top of the second inning. Leadoff batter Kim Ho-ryeong hit a double to left-center field, then advanced to third base on a sacrifice bunt by subsequent batter Yoon Do-hyun. With Han Seung-yeon reaching base on a walk, Kim Tae-gun delivered a two-run single to center field. When Park Min hit a ground ball to third base, the runner on first was forced out at second base. With runners on first and third, Park Jae-hyun hit a ground ball to first base, but Doosan's first baseman committed a fielding error, allowing both Han Seung-yeon and Park Min to score. The score became 3-2.

KIA added another run in the bottom of the third inning. After one out, Adellin reached base with a double to left-center field, then scored on Kim Ho-ryeong's sacrifice triple that dropped just inside the right-field line.

Both teams exchanged one run each in the seventh inning. In the top of the seventh, leadoff batter Yang Eui-ji hit a solo home run over the left-field fence, completing a multi-home run game. In response, in the bottom of the seventh with two outs and runners on first and third, Park Chi-guk induced Jung Hyun-chang to ground out to second base, but Park Jun-soon committed a fielding error on the play, allowing the runner on third, Adellin, to score.

Ultimately, KIA held on to its two-run lead and won 5-3.

KIA starting pitcher Hwang Dong-ha earned the win, pitching six innings, allowing seven hits, one walk, striking out three, and giving up three earned runs (three total runs). He recorded 85 total pitches. Jung Hae-young followed with one scoreless inning, allowing one hit; Kim Beom-su pitched two-thirds of an inning, allowing one hit and striking out one without allowing a run; and Sung Young-tak pitched one and one-third innings, allowing no hits and striking out two without allowing a run, leading the team to victory. In the lineup that generated a total of 12 hits, Kim Seon-bin and Kim Tae-gun each recorded three hits, while Adellin and Kim Ho-ryeong each had multi-hit games. Kim Do-young also added a single, contributing to a total of eight hits from the second through fifth batters. Although Park Jae-hyun, who had been performing well recently, went hitless, which was somewhat disappointing, the solid performance of the middle-order lineup was encouraging.

In contrast, Doosan starting pitcher Benjamin took the loss, pitching six innings, allowing nine hits, one walk, striking out six, and giving up four runs (two earned). He threw 102 pitches. Park Chi-guk followed with one inning, allowing two hits, striking out one, and giving up one unearned run; Tamura then pitched one inning, allowing one hit and striking out two without allowing a run. In the lineup that generated a total of nine hits, Yang Eui-ji went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs scored, delivering a powerful performance, while Jung Soobin and Cameron also had multi-hit games.

KIA will now travel to Daegu to face the Samsung Lions, while Doosan will return to Jamsil to play the Lotte Giants, each team playing a three-game series over the weekend.

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