The professional baseball LG Twins' momentum shows no signs of stopping. With a winning percentage of 80%, they are soaring high.

LG won 3-0 against the Samsung Lions in a game held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 15th. They achieved the fourth team no-hitter in history.

Starting pitcher Hernandez recorded 6 innings with no hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts, and no runs before being substituted. Although the pitch count was low at 79, he was replaced for player safety due to tightness in the front of his right thigh after the 6th inning.

In the 7th inning, Kim Jin-seong achieved a perfect game with 3 strikeouts in one inning, followed by Park Myung-geun in the 8th inning, who also had a perfect game with 1 strikeout in one inning. With LG leading 3-0 in the 9th inning, Jang Hyun-sik came to the mound. After one out, he walked Lee Jae-hyun and Kim Sung-yoon in succession, but finished the game by getting Ryu Ji-hyeok out with a ground ball double play, completing the monumental record.

LG achieved the first 'team no-hitter' in KBO history by winning 1-0 against NC on Oct. 6, 2014. At that time, Shin Jeong-rak (7⅓ innings), Yoo Won-sang (1⅓ innings), and Shin Jae-woong (⅓ inning) pitched successively. They set another monumental record after 11 years. This is the fourth record in history.

With this, LG is racing to the top with 15 wins and 3 losses. Until last year, in the 43-year history of KBO, there were only 2 instances of 15 wins and 3 losses in the first 18 games. The NC Dinos in 2020 and the SSG Landers in 2022 each recorded 15 wins and 3 losses. In 2020, NC achieved its first combined championship, while SSG won the combined championship wire-to-wire in 2022. So, can we say this year LG is one step closer to the championship?

LG has a good balance of pitching and hitting. As of the 15th, LG leads in batting average (.283), on-base percentage (.377), slugging percentage (.423), OPS (.800), walks (84), and runs scored (112). Despite using the spacious Jamsil Stadium as their home, they are third in home runs (18), trailing the leader Samsung (21) by 3. In the OPS category, Moon Bo-kyung is first (1.062), Park Dong-won is third (1.046), and Austin is fourth (.996). Veteran Kim Hyun-soo ranks fifth in batting with an average of .353.

Park Dong-won recently noted, "Our batters are so strong offensively that we're scoring a lot. Even if one person doesn't hit, it doesn't show; the players are all doing well. It seems like there's a synergy effect."

The mound is also strong. They have the best earned run average (2.53), second-best starting pitching earned run average (2.87), and first place in bullpen earned run average (1.86). They allow one more walk than KT (58), ranking at least second (59 walks). The starting pitchers, Chirinos, Son Joo-young, Hernandez, Lim Chan-kyu, and Song Seung-ki are performing stably. Hernandez, who struggled with 12 runs over 6 innings in the last 2 games, rebounded with 6 innings of no-hit pitching against Samsung on the 15th.

Although there were concerns about the bullpen, it has been stable so far. Jang Hyun-sik, who suffered an ankle injury in spring camp, joined the first team on the 4th and has been responsible for the backend. He has recorded 2 saves over 5 games with an earned run average of 0. In June, Lee Jeong-yong (military service) and Yoo Yeong-chan (rehabilitation) will return.

LG is off to an unprecedented start this season. They are 5 games ahead of second-place SSG. It's never been this good before. Park Dong-won said, "When I was with Nexen, the bats were good, but there were some regrets about the pitching staff. When the pitching is good, the bats might not perform well, and it can't be helped. There’s no perfect team in baseball. Right now, LG is close to perfect, so I think they are doing well."

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