DAEGU, South Korea (Interstat) — James Naile pitched six strong innings and Park Jae-hyun hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the Kia Tigers to a 5-4 victory over the Samsung Lions on Friday night at Daegu Samsung Lions Park. Naile allowed one earned run on five hits with three strikeouts. Sung Yeong-tak earned the win with 1 1/3 innings of relief. Kim Jae-yoon took the loss.

Kia scored two runs in the second inning on RBI singles by Park Sang-jun and Kim Tae-gun. Aderlin Rodriguez added an RBI single in the sixth. Samsung answered with a run in the fifth on Kim Sung-yoon’s single. The Lions rallied for three runs in the eighth, capped by Jeon Byeong-woo’s two-run single. But Park Jae-hyun’s homer in the ninth scored Kim Kyu-sung.

Ariel Jurado struck out seven over seven innings for Samsung. Attendance was 24,000. Kia improved to 20-20-1, while Samsung fell to 23-16-1.