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Professional Baseball's leading SSG defeated Samsung to snap a five-game winning streak. Ji-Hoon Choi led the way with a blistering performance in the air.

Yoo Byung-min is a reporter.

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SSG skirmished with Samsung until midway through the match.

Back-to-back timely hits by Choi Jung and Choi Joo-hwan in the third inning gave them a 5-3 lead, but they immediately allowed a tiebreaking three-run home run to Pirella on defense.

Shin-so Choo retook the lead in the fifth inning with a solo home run that grazed the right pole slightly, but a solo shot by Kang Min-ho in the sixth inning tied the game.

In the tense second half of the game, Choi Ji-hoon dominated the ground.

In the seventh inning, with two outs and two outs, he followed Pirella's long-hit ball to right-center and caught it, and in the eighth inning when he moved to right field, he snatched Lee Won-suk's tricky batted ball.

He then delivered a one-RBI double in the bottom of the ninth inning on a two-out, third-base opportunity to tie the game.

Choi Ji-hoon's karate performance snapped a five-game winning streak for leading SSG, while Samsung fell to a five-game losing streak.

Doosan has lost Kiwoom five in a row.

Tied 3-0 in the seventh inning, Yang Kai led the way for the second straight game with a two-RBI double.

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Lee Yong-chan made 6 career saves and secured the win.

Lotte scored four runs in the sixth inning on a two-RBI double by Noh Jin-hyuk and an infield hit by Ahn Chi-hong to halt LG's five-game winning streak, while Hanwha escaped a three-game losing streak by scoring the winning run in the 7th inning of overtime.

(Video Editing : Nam Il)