KT Wiz Beats Lotte to Claim 3rd Straight Win and Return to Top... Manager Lee Kang-cheol Earns 600th Career Win

Professional baseball team KT Wiz extended its winning streak to three games and reclaimed the top spot.

KT routed the Lotte Giants 16-3 on 19 hits in an away game of the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th.

KT pushed the Samsung Lions, who rested for the day, down to second place and moved into first on win percentage with no game difference.

Starting pitcher Bae Je-seong pitched brilliantly over 6 innings, allowing 3 hits and no runs with 8 strikeouts.

Lotte starting pitcher Jeremy Beasley, who had acted as a "nemesis" against KT with 3 wins and no losses and a 0.50 ERA up until the previous day, collapsed by giving up 10 hits and 9 runs in 4 innings.

KT scored a run in the 3rd inning on Kim Min-hyuk's RBI single to right field and then broke the game open with a flurry of hits in the 4th inning.

After taking a 2-0 lead with three consecutive hits following one out, KT added two more runs on Choi Won-jun's center field single with the bases loaded and two outs created by Kwon Dong-jin's walk.

During Kim Min-hyuk's at-bat with runners on first and third and two outs, third base runner Kwon Dong-jin scored home on a double steal, and second base runner Choi Won-jun crossed home plate on Kim Min-hyuk's right field single, widening the gap to 6-0.

In the 5th, starting with Sam Hilliard's solo home run over the right field wall, KT batted around and added 8 runs to effectively seal the game.

Manager Lee Kang-cheol, who took the helm at KT in 2019 and debuted as a manager, recorded his 600th career win, becoming the 13th manager overall and the 4th among active managers following Hanwha Eagles' Kim Kyung-mun, Lotte's Kim Tae-hyung, and LG Twins' Yeom Kyung-yup.

Manager Lee also became the 4th manager to achieve 600 wins with a single team, following former Haetae Tigers manager Kim Ung-yong, former Hyundai Unicorns manager Kim Jae-bak, and former Doosan Bears manager Kim Tae-hyung.

Manager Lee currently records 600 wins, 27 draws, and 498 losses with KT.

At Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, the Doosan Bears defeated the Kiwoom Heroes 5-0, led by strong hitting from foreign player Junior Severino.

Severino injected vitality into the slumping Doosan lineup with 3 hits in 3 at-bats (1 home run), 3 RBIs, and 2 runs scored.

Severino hit a 135-meter solo home run heading toward the scoreboard in the 2nd inning off a 154 km/h fastball thrown down the middle by Kiwoom starting pitcher Park Jun-hyun.

Then in the 3rd inning with the bases loaded and two outs, he hit a 2-RBI single dropping to the right of the right fielder.

Subsequent batter Ahn Jae-seok also hit a 2-RBI double to right-center, allowing Doosan to pull ahead 5-0.

The SSG Landers stopped the Hanwha Eagles' bid for a 6th consecutive win with a 4-3 victory at home in Incheon.

SSG starting pitcher Pedro Avila picked up his 6th win (1 loss) with a stellar performance of 1 run allowed and 6 strikeouts over 6 innings.

Trailing 1-0 in the 3rd inning, SSG turned the game around to 2-1 combining Lee Ji-young's left field single, Ahn Jae-yeon's right-center triple, and Park Sung-han's groundout.

In the 6th inning with the bases loaded and one out, SSG added two runs by combining Choi Ji-hoon's RBI single and Han Yu-sum's sacrifice fly.

Hanwha pursued with Kim Tae-yeon's two-run homer in the 7th, but could not overturn the game.
 

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