Choi Jeong (SSG Landers) celebrated his 450th career home run with a ‘grand slamSSG defeated the NC Dinos 2-1 in a home game of the KBO Baseball 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL on 9 September at SSG Landers Field in Incheon SSG, which had recently lost two in a row and was being chased by ‘top three teams’ NC and kt wiz, took a breather with the win Choi’s final shot proved decisive Choi came up to bat in the bottom of the fourth inning with the score tied 1-1 and lifted a 124-kilometre-per-hour change-up from NC starter Choi Sung-young for a massive 135-metre solo shot to left-centre field Choi, who hit his 20th home run of the season on 27 July against the Samsung Lions, added another in 11 games after suffering a home run drought Choi now has 450 career home runs The second player in KBO history to reach 450 career home runs, Choi is now 17 shy of Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop’s record of 467NC took the early lead In the top of the first inning, NC put runners on first and second with no outs after Son As-seob singled and Park Min-woo doubled to left After reaching third on Park Gun-woo’s grounder to short, Son came home on Jason Martin’s grounder to first Then came the unfortunate moment for NC Following 스포츠토토존 a Kwon Hee-dong single, Park Min-woo, who had runners on first and third, stole a pitch from SSG starter Roenis Elias and tried to steal home, but was tagged out SSG tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the third when Kim Kang-min led off with a single to left and Kim Sung-hyun followed with a double to left-centre to bring in Kim Kang-minIn the fourth inning, Choi completed the comeback in style After a shaky first inning, Elias settled down and pitched six innings of two-hit ball to earn his fifth win of the season SSG closer Seo Jin-yong pitched the ninth and retired all three batters he faced to earn his 31st save of the season Seo has not had a blown save this year.