'Just one last game' Can Hanwha make it to the 5th round? The original monster will come out
Aug 31, 2024
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Hanwha will face KT Wiz at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on the 31st. This is the last regular league showdown between the two teams this season. Hanwha and KT have already faced each other 15 times, and now they have only one last game left.
Hanwha, which created a craze for the blue hot weather special uniform 'Blue Hanwha', has recorded 7 wins and 3 losses in its last 10 games. The current ranking is still seventh, but the gap with the teams in the top five is not large. There is a close race between the sixth-ranked SSG Landers and only the winning rate without a ride, 1.5 games behind fifth-ranked KT and four games behind fourth-ranked Doosan Bears.
Now that we have entered the remaining game schedule, it is not easy to overturn Doosan in fourth place at once. Unless Doosan slides and narrows the gap, it should continue to hold one game and one game. On the other hand, KT, ranked fifth, has a 1.5 game difference, so it has a good chance of winning.
First of all, the result of Game 16 against KT on this day is important. This is because it is an opportunity to narrow the gap in one game at once.
For Hanwha, Ryu Hyun-jin will be the starting pitcher. It is time for Hanwha to take a winning move by adjusting the rotation interval of foreign pitchers in order to put on a strong drive for the possibility of advancing to the last five.
Ryu Hyun-jin's mission is also heavy. Ryu Hyun-jin, who had a gap between his appearances, collapsed in a rough hit after returning to Hanwha this year, has been pitching more stably as he enters the end of the season.
Ryu Hyun-jin has pitched salty water, giving up just two runs in 2 wins and 18 ⅓ innings without losing in the last three games. He pitched five scoreless innings against LG on the 13th, one run in six ⅓ against SSG on the 18th, and one run in seven innings against Doosan on the 25th. The only run was a solo home run.
Ryu Hyun-jin posted good pitching performance against top teams and even lost the bad luck of victory. There have been some ups and downs against KT this season. He has two wins and two losses with a 4.34 ERA 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.
In KT, which has a busy way to go, William Cuevas will start against Hanwha. KT, which had a fierce four-game series against third-place LG this week, recorded two wins and two losses. KT is also in a situation where it has to make a last-minute spurt as it further closes the gap with fourth-place Doosan.
Will Hanwha save its hopes for the come-from-behind fifth round. Or whether KT will go up further. There is a lot at stake in the result of this showdown.
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