Lions riding 7-game winning streak into big series vs. Twins in KBO
2026.05.11 10:19
Lions riding 7-game winning streak into big series vs. Twins in KBO
By Yoo Jee-ho
SEOUL, May 11 (Yonhap) -- No team in South Korean baseball this season has been as streaky as the Samsung Lions.
They are in the midst of a seven-game winning streak, the longest active run in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). Just two weeks ago, they were mired in their season-worst seven-game losing skid. And that slide came right after a seven-game winning streak from April 10 to April 18, which had catapulted them to first place.
The Lions are the only club to win at least seven in a row and also lose at least seven in a row this year.
Now in third place with a wins-losses-ties record of 21-14-1, the Lions will open the new week with a three-game series against the second-place LG Twins (22-14-0), beginning Tuesday at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul.
The Lions pitching staff posted an excellent 1.67 ERA last week. Jack O'Loughlin, the Australian left-hander who signed as a temporary replacement for injured Matt Manning, won both of his starts last week while tossing 12 innings of one-run ball with 13 strikeouts. O'Loughlin's four rotation mates -- Won Tae-in, Choi Won-tae, Ariel Jurado and rookie Jang Chan-hee -- each threw a quality start, an outing in which a starter goes at least six innings and allows three or fewer earned runs.
For the Lions' offense, their ageless wonder Choi Hyoung-woo, the oldest hitter in the KBO this year at 42, batted 9-for-17 with two home runs, six RBIs and seven walks over his past six games.
The Twins dropped two out of three against the Hanwha Eagles over the weekend and are 1 1/2 games back of the first-place KT Wiz (23-12-1).
The Wiz themselves couldn't capitalize on a soft pocket of their schedule last week, getting a split in two games against the ninth-place Lotte Giants before picking up a win, a tie and a loss in a three-game set against the last-place Kiwoom Heroes.
The Wiz will enjoy a six-game home stand this week in Suwon, some 30 kilometers south of Seoul, with three against the fourth-place SSG Landers (19-16-1) and three more against the Eagles (16-20-0), who are alone in seventh.
The Kia Tigers and the Doosan Bears are tied for fifth with an identical 17-19-1 record. They will clash in the Tigers' home in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers south of Seoul, from Tuesday to Thursday. The Bears will then come home to Jamsil to host the Giants (14-20-1) for the weekend, while the Tigers will visit the Lions in the southeastern city of Daegu.
The Heroes (13-23-1) snapped their five-game slide Sunday by walking off the Wiz 5-1 with An Chi-hong's ninth-inning grand slam and will continue their bid to get out of the cellar with their series against the Eagles at home in Seoul and then against the eighth-place NC Dinos (15-20-1) on the road in Changwon, some 300 kilometers southeast of the capital.
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