The winning team in Game 3 of the semi-playoff (semi-PO, three wins out of five) of professional baseball, which was tightly tied with one win and one loss in the series, has received a playoff (PO, three wins out of five) guarantee check.
There have been five cases in which the two teams faced the third game with one win and one loss in the semi-PO of the best of five games in history, and the winning team of the third game won all five PO tickets.
kt wiz, who has now returned to its home turf, aims to win the third round of the semi-PO at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 8th, while the LG Twins, who had 1 win and 1 loss in Jamsil, will start “100% chance” with Choi Won-tae as the starter.
On the 7th, the KBO Secretariat announced that KT Benjamin and LG Choi Won-tae will each start in the third round of the semi-PO.
This is as the head coaches of both teams announced after the second round of the semi-PO the previous day.
Benjamin, who is in his third year in the KBO League this year, had the most difficult season.
The ERA, which was 2.70 in 2022, rose to 3.54 last year, and this year, the ERA rose to 4.63 despite the overall league’s tendency to ride and pitch.
With 11 wins and 8 losses and 149 ⅔ innings, he did not meet his expectations from foreign pitchers.
But in the postseason, he lived up to his name with brilliant pitching.
Benjamin, who had been treated as an unsettling factor in the kt mound as he collapsed to six runs in three ⅓ innings just against the Kiwoom Heroes on the 28th, his last regular season appearance, took the lead in advancing to the semi-PO with a perfect pitch of three hits and six strikeouts in seven innings in the second game of the wild card decision against the Doosan Bears on the 3rd.
In fact, William Cuevas, who took the mound as a starter in the first round of the wild card decision, is the first.
However, the KT bench early designated Benjamin as the starter for the third game and prepared for the semi-PO series.
Benjamin showed strong performance against LG with 5 wins, 2 losses and a 1.66 ERA in 10 games, but Cuevas was beaten with four losses and a 9.00 ERA in nine games against LG.
The kt bench plans to put Benjamin in the third game, the watershed for the entire series, to gain the upper hand.
In response, right-handed pitcher Choi Won-tae will start for LG.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who asked reporters to maintain security after announcing that he appointed Choi Won-tae as the starting player for Game 3 before Game 2 on the 6th, won the game 7-2 to balance the series and announced Choi Won-tae’s selection.
Choi left this year’s regular season with nine wins, seven losses and an earned run average of 4.26. There were days when he threw stably, but he had ups and downs due to minor injuries.
So far, Choi has exposed his weakness in fall baseball.
His overall postseason record is 11.17 ERA with one loss and one save and three holds in 15 games. 먹튀검증
The Korean Series, which he played when he was traded from Kiwoom Heroes to LG during last season, remained a nightmare for him.
Choi Won-tae, who took the mound in one game as a starter and one game as a bullpen, played only one ⅓ innings in two games and gave up five runs, leaving a 33.75 ERA.
Choi Won-tae, who is in charge of starting this fall baseball, is determined to recover his honor.
Choi Won-tae met KT in the regular season and played his part as a starting pitcher.
He took the mound as the third starter and won two games, and played 18 innings, showing good performance with a 3.50 ERA.
LG expects Choi Won-tae to put down his “Autumn Tizziness” and reproduce his performance in the regular season kt match.
