Kia Tigers pound KT Wiz 11‑5 behind 20-hit outburst

SUWON, South Korea (Interstat) — The Kia Tigers routed the KT Wiz 11-5 on Sunday afternoon at Suwon Baseball Stadium, erupting for 20 hits and snapping a two-game losing streak.

Kia trailed 2-0 after the first inning on solo homers by KT’s Choi Won-joon and Sam Hilliard, but answered with a run in the second on Han Jun-su’s single. Byun Woo-hyuk tied the game with a solo homer in the fifth. The Tigers seized control with a five-run seventh, highlighted by Harold Castro’s two-run single and a sacrifice fly from Park Min. Kia added four more runs in the eighth, including Na Sung-bum’s two-run double and a sacrifice fly from Castro. KT managed single runs in the second, third and fifth but could not keep pace.

Keisho Shirakawa and four Kia relievers combined to hold the Wiz to seven hits. Attendance was 18,700, and the game lasted 3 hours, 21 minutes. Kia improved to 38-33-1, while KT fell to 41-28.