Home runs against all teams → 40 minutes later, 'it never happened.' Torrential rain by Moon Jung-bin erased even LG's victory... Gwangju-KIA game called off due to rain

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LG Twins lost both their victory and a historic record to the cruel autumn rain.

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) ruled the 13th regular-season matchup between LG and KIA Tigers at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on the 27th as a no-game due to heavy rain around 7:33 p.m. The game will be rescheduled later.

The cause was continuous torrential rain after the game began. Play was suspended in the bottom of the fourth inning with one out and a runner on first base, while KIA trailed 0-2, when Harold Castro came to bat. As the rain gradually subsided and field maintenance was completed, play resumed around 6:50 p.m.

Due to the approximately 41-minute delay, KIA replaced starting pitcher Keisho Shirakawa with Kim Beom-soo at the top of the fifth inning. Against Kim Beom-soo, Shin Min-jae and Park Hae-min reached base consecutively with hits, loading the bases with no outs. Austin Dean then stepped up to the plate.

But rain poured down once again. The rainfall intensified, and the field became a mess from repeated downpours, leading umpires to declare a no-game at 7:33 p.m.

This was an inevitably disappointing game for LG. On this day, LG started Carlos KARA-sco. KARA-sco pitched four scoreless innings, effectively shutting down the KIA lineup. In the top of the first inning with two outs and runners on first and second, Oh Ji-hwan hit a sacrifice fly to left field for an RBI, and in the bottom of the fourth, Moon Jung-bin connected on a hanbok-style outside pitch from Shirakawa for a solo home run over the fence, giving LG a 2-0 lead.

The rain was especially frustrating for Moon Jung-bin. He had hit his 18th home run of the season with a distance of 120 meters, achieving the unprecedented record of hitting a home run against every team this season. However, due to the no-game declaration, all records from that day were invalidated, including the home run, which effectively became as if it never happened.

The victory LG could have secured also vanished. The gap between third-place LG and fourth-place KIA remained at two games, meaning LG will need to travel to Gwangju once again to play out their remaining series against KIA.

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