Daejeon Hanwha Life Eagles Park, where the LG-Hanwha match was held on the 15th, was dark due to dark clouds even before the game. The rain from the morning subsided a little in the afternoon, but it did not stop completely. There was a large tarpaulin in the infield, so the players warmed up in the indoor practice range. It was a back and forth situation, but there was also a rain forecast in the evening. Precipitation of more than 20mm per hour was forecast from 7 p.m., and it was likely to be suspended after the start of the game at 6:30 p.m.
Ahead of the game, Hanwha manager Choi Won-ho said, “At this rate, I think I will enter the game…”Should I bunt from the first inning?” he said. As the official game is established as a rainfall cold after the fifth inning, it means that the team should score as soon as possible from the beginning to take the lead.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said the same thing. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop, who looked at the weather forecast that changes every moment on his cell phone before the game, laughed, saying, “I think it will continue to rain if it rains from 8 o’clock,” adding, “I told the players that I have to bunt from the first inning because I have to score within five times.”
The game, which started 10 minutes late due to ground maintenance work, became “right-handed baseball” as expected. There was quite a lot of rain until the second inning, and the pitchers had a hard time shaking off the dirt that had clumped on the spike. The spectators watched the game in the rain with umbrellas or raincoats.
As it was likely to be a rainfall cold game, both teams played squeezing baseball from the beginning of the game. Hanwha’s Lee Jin-young made a sacrifice bunt in the second inning with no outs and runners on second base, tied 1-1. Hanwha Lee Do-yoon then hit a squeeze bunt on the first pitch in the third base with one out. LG pitcher Kim Yoon-sik calmly ran forward and handed the ball home with a glove toss to lead to third baseman Nick Williams’ tag-out. 바카라사이트
In the third inning, LG also hit back with a squeeze bunt. In the first and third bases with no outs and runners on the first and third bases, trailing 1-3, Shin Min-jae suddenly bunt in the second pitch after swinging and swinging at the first pitch against Felix Peña. While rolling next to the pitcher, third baseman Park Hae-min homered. Peña had to give up the home game and throw it to first base to settle for one out count. The record is Shin Min-jae’s sacrifice bunt and one RBI.
It was not a short-term match and it was not an immediate ranking fight, but both teams exchanged squeeze bunt unusually from the beginning of the second and third innings. Yang Sang-moon, a SPOTV commentator who was in charge of the broadcast on this day, laughed, saying, “It’s my first time seeing the second to third squeeze in a game other than the Korean series.” It was a rare sight created by rain baseball.
LG tied the game 3-3 with Kim Hyun-soo’s timely hit to the right in the second base with one out after the squeeze bunt. Hanwha’s attack flow was cut off as Lee Jin-young made a bunt to send it to the first pitch in the fourth inning with no outs and first base, but it became a fly in front of the catcher. Then LG took a 4-3 lead with Austin Dean’s timely hit to the left in the fifth inning.
In the end, Austin’s timely hit became the winning point. The game was suspended due to the thickening of the rain ahead of the LG attack in the seventh inning. He waited 47 minutes after the suspension at 8:56 p.m., but when the rain did not stop, a rainfall cold was declared at 9:43 p.m.
As the rain at an exquisite time served as a finishing pitcher, LG won 4-3 and broke its third straight loss and firmly maintained its No. 1 position. After the game, head coach Yeom Kyung-yeop said, “Austin gave up the score when it rained and needed the score,” citing one point in the fifth inning, which he scored before the rain poured.
