Kiwoom Rally Past Doosan in Back-and-Forth Game

SEOUL, South Korea (Interstat) — The Kiwoom Heroes defeated the Doosan Bears 6-5 on Friday evening at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. An Chi-hong’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning scored the winning run.

The Heroes struck first on a sacrifice fly by Keston Hiura in the first. Doosan answered with a triple by An Jae-seok and a sacrifice fly by Kang Seung-ho in the fifth, building a 3-1 lead. Kiwoom tied it in the bottom of the fifth on an An Chi-hong two-run single.

Kang Seung-ho homered in the seventh to put the Bears ahead 5-4. Gwon Hyuk-bin doubled in the tying run in the eighth, and An Chi-hong’s fly ball drove in the go-ahead run.

Kiwoom starter Ha Yeong-min earned the win, allowing three earned runs over six innings with four strikeouts. Doosan starter Zach Logue gave up two earned runs in five innings. Kang Seung-ho drove in three runs for the Bears.

The attendance was 13,796. Kiwoom improved to 29-53-2, while Doosan fell to 40-40-2.