With Kim Do-young's return, the KIA Tigers wasted a chance to rebound. The moment when the team was allowed to come out in the top of the sixth inning after taking the lead was the most painful moment. Even though he was able to mobilize the entire winning team, the most regrettable choice was to leave Yang Hyun-jong untouched until the bases loaded with no outs in the top of the sixth inning. 

Kia Tigers played the LG Twins in the 2025 Shinhan Sol Bank KBO League at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on Saturday and lost 5-6. With the loss, Kia lost three consecutive games and maintained a tie for seventh (11 wins and 15 losses) in the league.안전놀이터

On this day, KIA faced LG starting pitcher Son Joo-young in the order of starting batting leading to Park Chan-ho (st baseman), Kim Sun-bin (second baseman), Wizdom (first baseman), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Na Sung-bum (right fielder), Lee Woo-sung (left fielder), Han Jun-su (catcher), Byun Woo-hyuk (third baseman), and Choi Won-jun (middle fielder). 

KIA got the upper hand in the bottom of the second inning. KIA had the opportunity to score by Han Jun-su's right double to right field after the second inning with one out. Follow-up hitter Byun Woo-hyuk only hit a fly ball to left field, but Choi Won-joon hit a timely RBI single to right field to score the first run. 

KIA was in crisis when starting pitcher Yang Hyun-jong doubled Kim Hyun-soo and walked Austin after two outs in the top of the third inning. He then allowed Moon to come from behind 1-2 with a timely two-run double to left-center field. Park Dong-won also had a timely RBI single in the left field. 

KIA, which fought back, had a chance to secure the bases loaded with no outs in the bottom of the fourth inning with Lee Woo-sung's walk, Han Jun-su's hit to the right, and Byun Woo-hyuk's hit to the left. When Choi Won-joon was at bat, Kim Do-young, who returned from a hamstring injury on the day, entered the batter's box as a pinch hitter. 

Kim Do-young immediately hit Son Joo-young's first pitch 123km/h curve and hit a timely hit during a two-run tie, heating the stadium full of spectators.

KIA, which gained momentum, brought back a 5-3 lead with Choi Hyung-woo hitting a timely hit during a two-run middle in a two-out bases-loaded opportunity. 

Yang Hyun-jong led the inning with three outs in the top of the fifth inning, meeting the requirements for 180 wins in his career with his first win of the season. 

However, Yang collapsed on the mound in an instant at the top of the sixth inning. After giving up a walk to Austin in the top of the sixth inning, Moon Bo-kyung hit a right-handed hit. Yang, who also gave up a walk to Park Dong-won, passed the ball to Jeon Sang-hyun to end the game. 

Jeon Sang-hyun gave up a timely hit to Moon Sung-joo after being hit by a sacrifice fly ball to right field by Hong Chang-ki. In the end, Yang Hyun-jong, who allowed six hits, two strikeouts, four outs and five runs in five innings, lost his first win of the season and his 180th career win. 

KIA was hit infield by Shin Min-jae at the top of the eighth inning with two outs and runners on the first and second bases. Second baseman Kim Sun-bin forced his throw to the second base, which led to a throwing error, and second baseman Hong Chang-ki hit home. Kia failed to counterattack on offense in the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings, and suffered bitter losses by a gap of one point. 

On the day, Kia utilized the entire bullpen session, which led to Jeon Sang-hyun, Choi Ji-min, Cho Sang-woo and Jung Hae-young, who had enough rest during the weekday series. However, the timing of the replacement of the starting pitcher was too late. Yang had his fastball speed on the mound at the sixth inning dropped to the minimum of 138 kilometers per hour. As he had already met the winning requirements, the KIA bench seemed to need an aggressive replacement of the pitcher from the start of the sixth inning. There were three times when the team needed to replace the pitcher until the team caused a crisis with no outs and the bases loaded, but the KIA bench left the situation as it was. 

In the end, KIA, which allowed a tie in the top of the sixth inning, knelt down without making a significant counterattack. Kim Do-young's pinch-hitter card was taken out early in the bottom of the fourth inning, but he was forced to lose his offensive power in the second half of the game as he replaced the pinch-runner immediately as a manager. Since the weekend's starting matchup is favorable, the loss of the game on the 25th, when the bullpen was all out, seems to be more painful.