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Lotte players sharing a high five after winning the Daegu game on the 3rd.

The 'Korea-US-Japan Giants Alliance' announced victory side by side on the same day for the first time this year.

The Lotte Giants achieved an 8-7 comeback victory over the Samsung Lions in a professional baseball game visiting Daegu on the 3rd.

Previously, the San Francisco Giants (USA) defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-1, and the Yomiuri Giants (Japan) defeated the Hanshin Tigers 8-5.

At the same time, the three teams recorded a win just two days after suffering their first loss this year.

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This year, on days when all three Giants teams played, there were nine days when both teams won.

However, Lotte lost 4 times, San Francisco 3 times, and Yomiuri 2 times, so the 'win-win-win' was not completed. Lotte had the hardest time until the Giants' alliance achieved its first win together this year. Lotte ranked last among the 10 Korean professional baseball teams with 10 wins (1 draw, 22 losses) this season. San Francisco ranks 3rd in the National League West Division of the Major League Baseball (MLB) with 15 wins (17 losses), and Yomiuri ranks 2nd in the Japanese Professional Baseball Central League with 13 wins (3 draws, 13 losses).

It was a home run by Jeong Hoon (37) that completed the first win and win of the season for the Korea-US-Japan Giants.

In the top of the 9th inning, when the score was tied at 6-6, with 2 outs and runners on third base, Jeong Hoon came to bat and hit a slider thrown by Kim Jae-yoon (34), Samsung's fifth pitcher, into a 2-run home run that went over the left wall. Samsung also chased up to 8-7 with Kim Young-woong (21)'s 1-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning, but was unable to take advantage of the opportunity with 2 outs and runners on 1st and 2nd bases and lost the game. Samsung took a 5-0 lead on this day, scoring 1 point in the bottom of the first inning and 4 points in the bottom of the second, but ended up losing. This is the first time in 15 games this season that Samsung lost even after scoring first.

Like Hanshin, which lost to Yomiuri, KIA, which uses the name Tigers, lost 2-4 to Hanwha in its home game in Gwangju that day.

However, the Detroit Tigers did not have a game that day, so the Korea-US-Japan Tigers alliance did not lose altogether.

To date, all three Tigers teams have lost only once, on the 7th of last month.

With this day's victory, Hanwha coach Won-ho Choi completed his record of 100 wins (8 draws, 158 losses, 0.388 winning percentage) as manager, including 39 wins in 2020 during his time as acting coach.

The only coach to reach 100 wins with a lower winning percentage is Bae Seong-seo (100 wins, 7 draws, 60 losses, 0.385), who led Binggrae (now Hanwha) in 1986 and 1987 and MBC (now LG) in 1989.

With this day's defeat, KIA allowed itself to trail by one game to second-place NC, which defeated SSG 19-5 in the Munhak visit game.

SSG collapsed in the top of the 6th inning alone, giving up 8 walks, including 5 consecutive pushes.

Five consecutive pushes and eight walks in one inning are both records, the most in professional baseball history.

Before that, there were six instances of being pushed out of four games in a row, and the most recent team to record this dishonorable record was NC.

On May 6, 2022, NC allowed Park Hae-min (34), Moon Seong-ju (27), Hong Chang-ki (31), and Kim Hyeon-soo (36) to get outs and walks in succession during the defense in the top of the second inning against LG in Changwon.

LG also gave up 4 consecutive walks against Doosan in the Jamsil game on September 11, 2021.

LG ended the game with a 5-5 draw despite recording 14 walks on this day, but lost 4-6 in the first game of the 2024 'Children's Day Series' in which they gave up only 2 walks.

Since 2003, when the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) began arranging three-game series against Jamsil rivals around Children's Day, all three games have been held 17 times, and in 12 of them (70.6%), Doosan won two or more games.

In particular, the last time LG had an advantage in even-numbered years when the Children's Day Series was played on a home schedule was in 2012 (2 wins, 1 loss).

In the individual game results of the Children's Day Series, Doosan is ahead of LG with 33 wins and 25 losses (0.569 winning percentage).


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