Hanwha Eagles aims to advance to the next five. The result of today’s game is important.
Hanwha will have a showdown with the KT Wiz at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on Sunday. It is the last face-off between the two teams during the regular season of this season. Hanwha and KT have already had 15 face-to-face matches, and only one final game is left.
Hanwha, which started the “Blue Hanwha” craze by wearing a blue hot weather special uniform, has recorded seven wins and three losses in its last 10 games. Although it is still in seventh place in the current rankings, the gap with the teams that make it to the top five is not big. It is a tight race between the sixth-ranked SSG Landers and the fifth-ranked KT, 1.5 games behind the fourth-ranked Doosan Bears, and four games behind the fourth-ranked Doosan Bears.
Now that Doosan is scheduled to play remaining games, it is not easy to overturn Doosan that is ranking fourth. As long as Doosan does not narrow its gap, it should continue to hold on to one game and one game for now. On the other hand, KT, ranking fifth, has a 1.5-game gap, which gives it a good chance of winning.
First of all, the result of Game 16 against KT is important. This is because it is an opportunity to narrow the gap in one game at once.
Ryu Hyun-jin, the “original monster,” will be the starting pitcher for Hanwha. Hanwha is also showing a winning move by adjusting the rotation interval of foreign pitchers in order to take a chance to advance to the last five.
Ryu’s mission is also heavy. Ryu had a gap in his pitching this year, as he collapsed due to difficulties after returning to Hanwha, but he is displaying more stable pitching as he approaches the end of the season.
In the last three games, Ryu has shown salty pitching by allowing just two runs during two wins and 18 ⅓ innings without losing a game. He pitched five scoreless innings against LG on Thursday, one run in six ⅓ innings against SSG on Wednesday, and one run in seven innings against Doosan on Tuesday. The only run he gave was a solo home run.
With such good pitching performance against top teams, Ryu even lost his chance to win. He had some ups and downs against KT this season. He had two wins and two losses with an ERA of 4.34 in five games.
However, in the two games against KT since June, he showed six scoreless innings and two runs in seven innings, respectively, except for one difficult start (seven runs and five earned runs in five innings) at the beginning of the season. 스포츠토토
For KT, which has a long way to go, William Cuevas will start the game against Hanwha. KT, which had a fierce four-game series with LG at the third place this week, recorded two wins and two losses. KT also has to narrow its gap with Doosan at the fourth place to stage a last-minute spurt.
Will Hanwha save its hope for the come-from-behind fifth round? Or will KT go further? There is a lot at stake in the result of the upcoming showdown.
