The KIA Tigers, the defending champion of professional baseball, collapsed due to the collapse of the bullpen for three consecutive games. Even Cho Sang-woo, who was brought in by trade, was shaken and fell into a shock four-game losing streak. 메이저사이트

KIA lost the away game against the Hanwha Eagles of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League 4-5 at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on Sunday. The game was ahead 4-3 until the seventh inning, but gave up two runs in the eighth inning, leading the game from behind again. 

It is painful in that it has lost four consecutive games in a row, but it is a reversal of three consecutive games. In the match against Kiwoom in Gwangju on the 27th, the closing pitcher Jung Hae-young lost three points in the 9th inning, leading 3-2. In the 7th inning, when the team was leading 2-0 against Hanwha in Daejeon on the 28th, Jeon Sang-hyun and Kwak Do-kyu, who were in the lead, lost by losing themselves with five consecutive dead balls and allowing five runs and big innings. 

To make matters worse, even Cho Sang-woo, who was brought in by trade, was shaken and suffered another upset loss. 

Starting pitcher Yang Hyun-jong went down with a quality start of six innings, six hits and three walks, five strikeouts and three runs (one earned run), but the bullpen couldn't hold out. Choi Ji-min went down in the seventh inning with two outs and a runner on the second base, but Cho Sang-woo was deployed to deal with Roh Si-hwan's ground ball to shortstop to settle the inning. 

However, Cho caused a crisis in the eighth inning. Chae Eun-seong, the Hanwha leadoff hitter, gave a hit to the left, and Moon Hyun-bin, a pinch hitter, missed a hit to the left field. With runners on the first and second bases with no outs, pinch hitter Han Jun-su missed the fourth slider against Lee Do-yoon, and runners on the first and second bases each. It was a moment when Jo did not get lucky one after another due to the catcher's foil. 

Cho, who was on the verge of hitting the second and third bases with no outs, induced Lee Do-yoon to hit a ground ball to the shortstop after a game of nine pitches. While the runner on the third base was running down, Lee went to the second base with one out and runners on the second and third bases. When Hanwha took out Ahn Chi-hong's card as pinch hitter, Kia also countered by replacing the pitcher. It boldly lowered Cho, who could have thrown a little more with 23 pitches. 

It was doubtful that Jung Hae-young, who had to take a day off, would be deployed early, but Kia chose to leave the mound. Hwang Dong-ha, who has experience as a starting pitcher but has yet to be proven as a must-winner for the bullpen, was placed in a burdensome situation where even a runner from behind suffered a one-run gap. As a result, Hwang failed to deploy the team. Ahn Chi-hong, Hanwha's pinch hitter, swung Hwang Dong-ha's fastball on the first pitch, but did not miss the fastball that was driven to the center of the second pitch, and scored a two-run timely hit to the left. The finishing hit that resulted in a 5-4 upset. 

Hwang Dong-ha made a blon save, and Jo Sang-woo lost for the first time this season. Jo had two hits and two runs (one earned run) in ⅔ innings. His maximum speed on fastballs was 145 kilometers per hour, which was not his ball power when he was in full swing. If Jo was in good condition, he could have dragged the ball longer than expected, but Kia chose to replace him. As a result, Jo's loss increased the impact of Kia's come-from-behind loss. 

Amid the bullpen turmoil, Yang's career-high 180 wins have also been postponed to the next. Yang has only one win and the second 180 wins in KBO league history after Song Jin-woo (210 wins), but has failed to add another win in the last five consecutive games since the game against Kiwoom in Gwangju on Sept. 8 last year. 

Kia, which won the overall title by banking on overwhelming performance last year, was considered a "special lecture" by acquiring Patrick Wisdom, a slugger with 88 home runs in the Major League, and bringing in Cho Sang-woo, a national bullpen pitcher, in a trade. However, Kim Do-young (hamstring) and Park Chan-ho (knee) left the team due to consecutive injuries from the first week of the season, putting the team on high alert. Due to the struggles of Na Sung-bum and Choi Hyung-woo, the batters continue to roll, but the bullpen is rapidly shaking and the team has repeatedly suffered come-from-behind defeats. With two wins and five losses in the opening seven games, the team was tied for the lowest with Doosan and Lotte in eighth place. It is an unexpected start before the season.