Can the professional baseball team LG Twins achieve a club record?
LG will face the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on the 29th.
LG won the previous day 8-4, marking their sixth consecutive victory since the start of the season. This ties their record for the most consecutive wins at the start of the season for the first time in eight years since 2017. Now, they aim to set a new club record for a seven-game winning streak to start the season against NC.
Coincidentally, this day is also LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop's 57th birthday. Before the game, the LG team held a celebration for manager Yeom Kyung-yeop's birthday, gifting him a birthday cake and a bouquet of flowers.
Manager Yeom received a handmade cake with the message, "LG manager Yeom Gal-ryang, let’s go for V4 in the 2025 season! Happy birthday." He wore a 'birthday headband' prepared by the players during the celebration. Manager Yeom expressed to the players, "The best birthday gift is winning." He wished for the continuation of their winning streak.
Reflecting on the previous game, Manager Yeom said, "I thought we really had to focus yesterday. The atmosphere was the first time when (Kim) Jin-sung gave up runs, and I stressed that we had to secure the game."
LG scored two runs in the top of the seventh to take a 4-2 lead, but in the bottom of the seventh, Kim Jin-sung struggled with control, allowing a two-run game-tying hit to Son Ah-seob with one out and the bases loaded. After that, Baek Seung-hyun managed to stave off a crisis with one out and runners on first and second, and in the top of the eighth, scored a run due to a wild pitch from the opposing pitcher with two outs and the bases loaded. In the top of the ninth, they seized the momentum with a two-run game-winning hit from Shin Min-jae with no outs and the bases loaded. They continued their winning streak by winning a tough game, marking their sixth consecutive victory since the start of the season.
Manager Yeom emphasized, "We need to win games like this. That's how we become a strong team. I have also stressed that to the coaches. One of the things I asked this season is that the fact we won the championship in 2023 was ultimately because of a one-run victory."
Forty-two come-from-behind victories are tremendous. It was because of those that we had various deficiencies, but we didn't have a number one starter, there were struggles in the middle innings, and there were times when we clearly didn't match up, yet those 42 come-from-behind victories ultimately made us first in the pennant race and led to the championship title. Because we had come-from-behind victories in the pennant race, we gained the strength to overturn games in the championship series as well," he emphasized.
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