CHANGWON (Interstat) — Visiting Kia Tigers defeated NC Dinos 8-6 on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20, at Masan Baseball Stadium in Changwon, South Korea, using a six-run eighth inning to erase a late deficit. Kia finished with eight hits, NC seven. Kia improved to 69-55-3, while NC fell to 54-63-5. Keisho Shirakawa started for Kia and worked five hitless innings, allowing no earned runs with four walks and four strikeouts. Toda Natsuki started for NC and threw 4 2/3 scoreless innings, giving up three hits with three walks and two strikeouts. Park Kun-woo hit a home run and drove in three runs for NC. Park Jung-woo delivered a three-run hit for Kia during the decisive eighth. Han Jun-su, Harold Castro, Na Sung-bum and others keyed the rally as Kia scored six times in the eighth. Lee Woo-sung had a two-run pinch hit for NC. The game lasted 4 hours, 18 minutes and drew 16,120 fans. Kia will visit Doosan next Wednesday, while NC travels to Samsung on Tuesday.