KIA vs. Samsung: Highlights from Game 3 of the Korean Series – Samsung Secures Victory with Four Home Runs!

Samsung had a chance to fight back in the Korean Series with the most Samsung-like football.

Samsung won 4-2 in Game 3 of the Korean series against KIA held at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 25th. Samsung, who suffered two defeats in Gwangju, won the third game and laid the foundation for an attack.

After games 1 and 2 of the Korean series on the 23rd, Samsung coach Park Jin-man said, “Our winning pattern requires long hits. I think it was a difficult match because I mostly came out with short shots. “I think we have to change the atmosphere by producing long balls in Daegu,” he said.

As Coach Park said, Samsung’s strength “hits far”. Samsung is the team that ranks first in home runs this season. He was first with 185 home runs. There are four batters who have hit more than 20 home runs.

However, there was only one home run in games 1 and 2. In the first game, Kim Heon-gon hit a home run to lead 1-0, but the game was postponed due to rain, and suffered the team two losses in one day. Samsung coach Park Jin-man reiterated the importance of batting before the game, saying, “We have returned home, so we have to turn the mood around.”

And at ‘home’, the long-awaited hit by Samsung happened again. On this day, Samsung hit the KIA mound with four home runs.

It started with Lee Seong-gyu. Lee Seong-gyu, who started as the 8th right fielder today, hit Eric Lauer’s fastball 151 km long at KIA on the fifth pitch and it went over the left-center wall.

Samsung took the lead with this home run and went ahead again in the 5th inning with Kim Young-woong’s home run. Kim Young-woong aimed Lauer’s second pitch, this time over the right-center field fence.

When KIA plated a run in the top of the 6th inning with a timely hit by Choi Hyeong-woo, they responded with back-to-back home runs.

In the bottom of the 7th inning, leadoff hitter Kim Heon-gon hit Jeon Sang-hyun’s first pitch, a 143km fastball, and it led to a solo home run.

Kim Heon-gon, who hit a home run against KIA’s James Nail in Game 1 of the Korean Series held on the 21st, continued his slugging ability in Game 3.

As home runs began to hit like this, Park Byung-ho, who had been quiet for so long, also woke up.

Park Byeong-ho, who came right after Kim Heon-gon’s at-bat, targeted a slider on the first pitch and it went over the right-center field fence. Park Byeong-ho, who had gone 0-hit in 9 at-bats in games 1 and 2, turned it around with a double play in the second inning and a strikeout in the fifth, but managed to get over the fence in his third at -bat. Byung-ho Park tied the record for most home runs in the postseason. The previous record was 14, set by Doosan coach Seung-yeop Lee when he was playing for Samsung. Byung-ho Park also hit his 14th home run, putting himself on par with the ‘national hitter’.

Samsung, which won the first and second games in the playoffs with its slugging power, has been away from home for a long time since the 15th. Returning home after nearly 10 days, Samsung finally showed its ‘Samsung-like’ side in front of a packed crowd.