Samsung Lions vs. LG Twins: How Lee Jae-hyun’s Home Runs Secured a Comeback Victory

[Anchor] The Samsung Lions climbed back to second place, driven by Lee Jae-hyun’s two homers. In a separate matchup, Hanwha’s Jeong Woo-ju, making a spot start, outperformed Kiwoom’s An Woo-jin to help his club to a big win. Yonhap News TV’s Jang Yoon-hee has the highlights. [Reporter] The game was decided early. In the top of the second, with the bases loaded and nobody out, Lee Jae-hyun launched a grand slam off LG starter Song Seung-gi to instantly put Samsung up by four. Kang Min-ho followed with a solo homer on the very next pitch, turning it into back-to-back homers and a 5-0 lead. Samsung added two more in the fifth when Kang delivered an RBI single, and Lee added another solo shot in the seventh to seal the game. Lee, back from a lower-back injury, recorded his first career multi-homer game and set a single-game career high in RBI, emerging as the game’s clear difference-maker. Replacement starter Yang Chang-seop gave Samsung a strong outing, going five innings while allowing four hits and two runs (one earned) to earn his second win of the season. For the Twins, Lee Joo-heon supplied some late resistance with solo homers in the third and ninth innings. In Daejeon, Hanwha’s Jeong Woo-ju — regarded as one of Korean baseball’s promising young pitchers — took the mound against Kiwoom ace An Woo-jin and turned in an impressive performance. Jeong, who began the season in the bullpen and was handed a start amid rotation issues, worked four innings, surrendering one hit, issuing two walks and allowing one run. Though he left one inning shy of the five-inning threshold required to be credited with the win, the outing signaled a successful transition to the starting rotation. “I’ve looked up to him since high school, so I felt excited and nervous,” Jeong said. “But I told myself I wasn’t facing An Woo-jin — I was facing Kiwoom’s hitters. I set that aside and focused on each batter.” An, meanwhile, struggled. He gave up a game-tying solo shot to Kim Tae-yeon in the fifth that ultimately put Hanwha ahead, finishing with five innings, five hits and three runs and taking the loss. After An departed, Hanwha’s offense came alive and the Eagles rolled to a 10-1 victory. This is Jang Yoon-hee with Yonhap News TV. [Video edit: Kim Se-na] [Graphics: Kang Sung-hoon] #Hanwha #KBO #Samsung #LG #Kiwoom Yonhap News TV inquiries and tips: KakaoTalk/Line jebo23 Jang Yoon-hee (ego@yna.co.kr)