KT Sweeps 4-Game Series Against LG, Climbs to 2nd Place… Ko Young-pyo Earns 7th Win of the Season

The professional baseball team KT Wiz has swept their four-game series against the LG Twins in the second half of the season, reclaiming second place in the standings.

KT secured a 4-1 victory in their away game against LG during the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League regular season, held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul today (July 19).

Entering the second half of the season, KT was in third place, trailing LG by 3.5 games. However, by winning all four games played from July 16 to today, they have overtaken LG to move into second place.

Including their three-game winning streak at the end of the first half, the team is currently on a seven-game winning streak.

The game was controlled through the middle innings by the dominant pitching of KT starter Ko Young-pyo.

Ko successfully shut down the LG lineup, allowing no runs on four hits with six strikeouts over six innings, earning his seventh win of the season (6 losses).

Although he maintained a perfect game through the third inning and allowed baserunners in every inning from the fourth onward, he prevented any runs by pitching with precision to the corners of the strike zone.

The KT lineup struggled at times due to a lack of clutch hitting and LG's solid defense.

In the second inning, with two outs, Oh Yoon-suk hit a double, followed by a walk from Cho Dae-hyun and an RBI single by Kwon Dong-jin to take an early lead. However, during Choi Won-jun's right-field single, runner Cho Dae-hyun was tagged out at home plate.

Leading 1-0 in the eighth inning, KT's leadoff hitter Jang Sung-woo hit a massive solo home run off Kim Jin-soo with a distance of 141.8 meters, adding a valuable insurance run.

In the following play with one out and a runner on first, KT's Cho Dae-hyun advanced the runner to second with a sacrifice bunt. Despite trailing, LG made a bold move by bringing in closer Son Ju-young.

Kwon Dong-jin then hit a center-field single off Son Ju-young, but once again, a runner was thrown out at home by a precise throw from LG center fielder Park Hae-min.

However, KT sealed the victory in the ninth inning by adding two more runs on consecutive RBI hits from Sam Hilliard and Jang Sung-woo.

LG managed to score one run in the bottom of the ninth after two outs with a solo home run by Park Dong-won, but it was too little, too late.

With this home run, Park Dong-won became the 31st player in KBO League history to reach double-digit home runs for eight consecutive seasons.

(Photo: Lee Dae-ho, Yonhap News)
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