The LG Twins' Austin Dean celebrates during a game on June 10.YONHAP
The league-leading LG Twins homered four times in the bottom of the first inning Sunday, powering a 9-3 win over the Doosan Bears that completed a weekend sweep and set two KBO records.
All four first-inning shots were solo home runs. That gave LG the first four-homer inning ever recorded at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, the league's largest ballpark. The Twins also became the first KBO team to hit four home runs in their first turn at bat.
The sweep, with all three weekend wins powered by come-from-behind home runs, widened LG's lead over the second-place KT Wiz to three games and tightened its hold on first. Doosan, in fifth, lost its third straight and slipped 3.5 games behind the fourth-place Kia Tigers.
Doosan Bears' Jung Soo-bin hits a three-run home run during a KBO game in April 21.YONHAP
Doosan struck first when leadoff hitter Jung Soo-bin tripled and then scored in the top of the first. LG answered in the bottom half with four solo home runs, from Song Chan-eui, Austin Dean, Park Dong-won and Moon Jung-bin, to surge ahead 4-1. Moon added a two-run homer, his fifth of the season, in the fifth, and LG tacked on three more runs in the sixth on Park Hae-min's RBI single and a Doosan error.
LG Twins players celebrate after winning a game against the SSG Landers on June 10.YONHAP
Austin's first-inning blast was his 21st of the season and moved him past Kia's Kim Do-yeong, who has 20, for sole possession of the home run lead. LG also became the sixth franchise in KBO history to reach 4,000 home runs.
In Suwon, Gyeonggi, Kia pounded out 20 hits to beat KT 11-5. Down 5-2 after six innings, KIA erupted for five runs in the seventh and four in the eighth. The rally avenged a walk-off loss to KT on Saturday. KT outfielder Choi Won-jun led off the bottom of the first with a first-pitch home run, the third leadoff first-pitch homer in the KBO this season and the first of his career, but it was lost in the defeat.
In Daejeon, the Samsung Lions edged the Hanwha Eagles 3-1 to climb within a half-game of second-place KT. Samsung closer Kim Jae-yoon recorded his 17th save to stay alone atop the league in that category. The SSG Landers rallied past the NC Dinos 7-3 in Changwon, where outfielder Guillermo Heredia broke a 3-2 deficit with a go-ahead three-run homer, his 13th of the season, in the top of the seventh.
The Lotte Giants beat the Kiwoom Heroes 6-3 in Gocheokfor their fifth straight win. Last-place Kiwoom fell to a sixth consecutive loss.
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.
