Doosan Defeats Kiwoom with 16 Hits... Choi Min-seok Claims Sole Lead in Wins

The professional baseball team Doosan Bears crushed the Kiwoom Heroes, powered by a scorching offense that racked up 16 hits, including three home runs, and a strong pitching performance from Choi Min-seok, who rose to the sole lead in wins.

Doosan secured a landslide 15-1 victory against Kiwoom in the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League regular season home game held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the 30th.

Doosan starting pitcher Choi Min-seok allowed just six hits (including one home run) and one walk over six innings while giving up one run, picking up his 13th win (3 losses) of the season.

Choi made four consecutive starts this month and won all of them, pulling ahead of LG Twins pitcher Lim Chan-gyu (12 wins) to take sole possession of the top spot in the wins category.

On the other hand, Kiwoom's Jeon Jun-pyo, who transitioned to a starting role last month, failed to secure a victory in his sixth appearance as a starter.

Kiwoom fell into a four-game losing streak.

Doosan batted through the order in the bottom of the first inning to create a big inning.

With no outs and runners on first and second, Park Jun-soon hit an RBI double down the left-field line to score the first run, and Yang Eui-ji followed with a two-run RBI single dropping to left-center field.

Luego, Yunior Severino, Cho Soo-hwang, and Jung Soo-bin added RBI hits to make it 6-0.

After extending the lead by one more run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 7-0, Doosan saw Ahn Jae-seok, who hit consecutive home runs the previous day, launch another arch in the bottom of the fifth.

With two outs and a runner on first, Ahn pulled a middle-in 135 km/h slider from newly brought-in pitcher Kim Sun-ki straight down the middle for a 130-meter right-field two-run homer.

In the top of the sixth, Doosan starter Choi Min-seok gave up a massive 135-meter solo home run to Kiwoom leadoff hitter Matt Davidson right over the center-field fence, but retired the next three batters before stepping down from the mound.

In the bottom of the sixth with one out and a runner on first, Doosan's Severino hit a massive 145-meter center-field two-run home run directly off the scoreboard at Jamsil Baseball Stadium against Kiwoom's third pitcher, Jung Hyun-woo, bringing the score to 11-1.

Severino, who made his debut on July 16, hit his first-ever KBO League home run in his 21st game.

In the bottom of the eighth, pinch hitter Oh Myeong-jin hit a three-run homer to right field, and Cho Soo-hwang, celebrating his birthday, added an RBI single to center field to tack on four runs and seal the victory.

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