The KIA Tigers won 3-1 at home against the Samsung Lions of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on the 9th. This victory KIA has won three consecutive games. Samsung, on the other hand, fell into a two-game losing streak.

KIA's Lee Eui-ri, who had a hard time due to the elimination of the Asian Games entry, started the game and pitched five ⅔ innings (115 pitches) with five hits, four walks, 10 strikeouts and one run (one earned run). Kim Dae-yu then pitched a no-hitter in ⅔ innings, Lim Ki-young pitched a no-hitter in ⅓ innings, and Jeon Sang-hyun became the winning pitcher with one hit and no run in one ⅓ inning. Jeon Sang-hyun has seven wins, three losses, one save and a 2.25 ERA this season. Jung Hae-young then succeeded in pitching one inning with one hit, one strikeout, and no run, achieving his 21st save of the season.

On the other hand, Samsung's starter Kim Dae-woo pitched five innings (88 pitches) with three hits, two walks, and two strikeouts, but he also handed over the mound to the bullpen without recording a win or loss. Kim Dae-woo has lost two games and has an ERA of 4.50 without winning in 44 games this time. His last starting win is against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on June 17, 2020. Samsung then became a losing pitcher with Choi Ji-kwang (one hit and one run in ⅓ innings), Lee Jae-ik (one ⅓ scoreless inning), and Kim Tae-hoon (one earned run) in the first ⅓. This season's performance was four wins, four losses and a 3.60 ERA. Woo Kyu-min then allowed one hit and one run in 0 innings, and Lee Sang-min pitched two hits and no runs in ⅔ innings, respectively. Samsung's Asian Games gold medalists Won Tae-in, Kim Ji-chan and Kim Sung-yoon were not registered for the first division entry. KIA also played without registering Choi Ji-min and Choi Won-jun, who played in the Asian Games, in the first division entry.

Samsung won the first point. After two outs in the top of the sixth inning, Kim Hyun-joon hit a heavy hit and went to second base with a wild pitch during the pinch-hitter Anju-type at-bat. An Joo-hyung then called Kim Hyun-joon home by hitting a timely hit to the left.(0-1) 스포츠토토

Kia then immediately followed. After one out in the bottom of the sixth inning, Kim Sun-bin stepped on first base with a hit and then went to second base when changed pitcher Lee Jack-ik threw a wild pitch. Kim Sun-bin, who settled on third base when Socrates grounded out to first base, scored a tie when Ko Jong-wook hit a timely hit to the right following Lee Woo-sung's walk.

In the end, the game was decided in the eighth inning. In the bottom of the eighth inning, leadoff hitter Kim Sun-bin picked out a walk and was replaced by pinch-runner Choi Jung-yong. Socrates strikes out. Lee Woo-sung hit a left-center hit against changed pitcher Woo Kyu-min, where Samsung also replaced the pitcher with Lee Sang-min. KIA, which had a chance at first and third base with Ko Jong-wook's grounder, brought third baseman Choi Jung-yong home with Han Jun-su hitting a timely hit to the right-center. As soon as the next batter, Lee Chang-jin, hit a timely hit that fell inside the left-field line to make it 3-1. KIA was hit with a left-center double by Kim Ho-jae after Jung Hae-young took the mound in the top of the ninth inning and grounded out leadoff hitter Kang Joon-seo to third base and struck out Ryu Ji-hyuk. However, he managed to secure his team's victory by sending Pirella to right field in the sixth pitch.