SUWON (Interstat) — Sam Hilliard homered and Kwon Dong-jin delivered a go-ahead double in the eighth inning as the KT Wiz defeated the Lotte Giants 5-4 on Tuesday afternoon at Suwon Baseball Stadium in front of 18,700.

Hilliard’s solo shot in the second put KT up 1-0. Lotte answered with two runs in the sixth on Victor Reyes’ single to take a 2-1 lead. The Wiz reclaimed the lead in the bottom half, scoring three runs on RBI singles by Ryu Jun-kyu and Jang Jun-won to go up 4-2.

Lotte tied the game with a run in the seventh on Jeong Bo-keun’s single and another in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Go Seung-min. In the bottom of the eighth, Kwon Dong-jin doubled home Kim Sang-su for the decisive run.

So Hyeong-jun (6 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 6 K) earned the win. Park Yeong-hyun and Sugimoto Koki combined for 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Elvin Rodriguez took the loss for Lotte, allowing four earned runs over five innings. KT improved to 22-10-1, while Lotte fell to 12-18-1. The teams meet again Wednesday at Suwon.