The NC Dinos of the KBO snapped the KIA Tigers’ winning streak.

NC won 7-4 against KIA in the 2024 Shinhan SolBank KBO League at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on Friday.

NC (46 wins, 2 draws, and 46 losses), which snapped an eight-game losing streak against KIA and returned to a 5-for-5 winning percentage, moved from seventh to tied for fifth in the standings.

Meanwhile, first-place KIA (59 wins, 2 draws, 36 losses), which failed to break its nine-game winning streak, will look to reach 60 wins in its next game.

NC Foreign Ace Kyle Hart pitched a stellar game to lead his team to victory. He allowed just two runs in the sixth inning (four hits and six strikeouts) to pick up his ninth win of the season (2-2). She moved into a tie for second place in the league in wins.

At the plate, Hee-dong Kwon (1-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 run) was a standout. The lone RBI came in a three-hit shutout of the KIA mound.

KIA starter Kim Do-hyun (2-4, 4 H) suffered the loss, allowing six runs (four earned) on three hits (one home run) and six walks in 1 1/3 innings.

NC scored in the top of the first inning.

After a walk by Park Si-won, a single to right by Do Tae-hoon, and a walk by Park Gun-woo, Matt Davidson drew a bases-loaded walk to 토토사이트 추천 push in a run. In the next at-bat, Kwon Hee-dong hit a two-run double and Kim Hwi-jip followed with an RBI single.

With the bases loaded, NC added two more runs on back-to-back groundouts by Seo Ho-cheol and Kim Hyung-joon.

Kia answered back in the bottom of the fifth inning.

After leadoff hitter Park Chan-ho singled up the middle, Kim Do-young launched a chasing two-run arch over the left field fence. It was his 26th home run of the season in just two games.

However, NC produced an insurance run.

In the top of the sixth, Do Tae-hoon singled, Park Gun-woo and Davidson walked to load the bases, and Kwon Hee-dong hit an RBI sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Kia rallied again. With the bases loaded, Choi Won-joon doubled to put runners in scoring position and Byun Woo-hyuk followed with a single to left. With one out, Socrates Brito singled to the right side of the infield to bring home Byun Woo-hyuk from third, but Lee Chang-jin flied out to right field with runners on first and second.

With a 7-4 lead, NC brought in closer Lee Yong-chan in the bottom of the ninth. Lee gave up a single to Kim Do-young and a walk to Na Sung-beom to put runners on first and second with no outs, but he retired the next three batters to earn his 16th save of the season.