In a battle to climb out of the bottom half of the standings, the lion caught the eagle and had the first laugh. The ace lived up to expectations, setting the stage for the team’s victory, and the bats came through in the final innings.
The Samsung Lions 온라인카지노 wrapped up a 5-3 victory over the Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization in Daejeon on April 22. Samsung starting pitcher David Buchanan pitched well, and the bats came together in the ninth inning to hold off Hanwha. With the win, Samsung moved into eighth place, knocking Hanwha down to ninth.
Buchanan is Samsung’s most reliable starter. Now in his fourth year with the organization, Buchanan has been consistent this season. In 22 appearances prior to today’s game, he had an 8-6 record with a 3.06 ERA. His quality starts (six innings of three earned runs or less) have also been solid at 14.
The only concern is that he left the mound early in his last game due to neck soreness. After giving up one run in two innings against the LG Twins in Daegu on the 16th, he was replaced due to neck discomfort. It wasn’t a major injury, and he made his 22nd appearance in the starting rotation, but he was nervous.
On this day, Buchanan was an ace. He didn’t allow Hanwha to score in the first inning with runners on first and second and no outs in the second inning. He gave up two runs on a wild pitch and a walk with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, but he still did his job with five hits and two runs in seven innings.
More troubling was the fact that Samsung took the lead in the third inning on Kim Sung-yoon’s RBI triple and couldn’t score any more runs. When you can’t run away with it, you get caught. This led to a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the seventh inning.
However, Samsung remained focused until the end. In the top of the ninth inning, with the score tied at 2-2, the team scored four runs on consecutive RBI singles by Kim Dong-yeop, Lee Jae-hyun, and Kim Ji-chan with runners on first and third after a hit by pitch and an infield error. Reliever Oh Seung-hwan gave up one run in the bottom of the ninth to preserve the win.