'Shocking eight out of eight, not all home defeats' There's so much at stake in the last game
Sep 09, 2024
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SSG Landers and Hanwha Eagles will face off again in Incheon. The two teams will play their 15th game of the season at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. The last match between the two teams in Incheon.
The reason why this game is important is that there is a possibility that SSG and Hanwha will advance to the last five, and Hanwha is winning Incheon this year.
SSG, the home team, had received a shocking result of losing all eight games to Hanwha at Landers Field, its home ground, this season. Robert Duggar, Park Jong-hoon and Oh Won-seok, who have now been kicked out of the three consecutive games from March 26 to 28, took the mound as starters and lost both games on May 24-25, with Drew Anderson and Oh Won-seok taking the mound.
The results of the most recent three consecutive games were also highly hurt. Song Young-jin, Kim Kwang-hyun, and Oh Won-seok took the mound at an important road from the 16th to 18th of last month, and were completely defeated by Hanwha's One Two Three Punch, which leads to Weiss, Barria, and Ryu Hyun-jin. Losing the starting fight resulted in a sweep, which resulted in SSG being pushed out of fifth place.
And SSG and Hanwha will meet again. SSG announced Song Young-jin as the starting pitcher on Wednesday, while Hanwha announced Weiss. Song Young-jin has lost four consecutive games without winning for six games since the game against Doosan Bears (5 ⅔ innings) on July 28. In the game against the LG Twins on the 4th, his most recent appearance, he pitched well with three hits (one home run), three strikeouts, two walks, and one run in six innings, but recorded 'nodisci'. In three appearances against Hanwha this year, he had the best opponent performance among the nine clubs with a 1-1 record and a 3.60 ERA.
Weiss failed to win even though he pitched seven ⅔ innings of one run against the KIA Tigers on the 4th, and has recently won three consecutive games, making Hanwha's practical first starter. He also led SSG to a sweep by pitching one run in six ⅔ innings in one game.
The reason why this match is important is that we cannot completely give up hope for the fifth round yet. SSG, which fell to 8th place, recently beat LG and Lotte and rose back to 6th place with 2 wins and 1 draw in 3 games. Hanwha has lost two consecutive games and is seventh behind SSG in winning percentage.
Since there is one more game left between the two teams after the showdown in Incheon on the 10th, the joy and sorrow may depend on the performance of the fifth-ranked Doosan Bears and the fifth-ranked KT Wiz, but either way, both SSG and Hanwha have to save the last spark by accumulating as many wins as possible in the remaining games. The results of the showdown are even more important as the two teams are close to each other in sixth and seventh places.
In particular, in the case of SSG, if it loses the game on the 10th, it will be disgraced as a loss in all home games against Hanwha this season. There is one more final game of the regular season against Hanwha on the 28th, but the game will be held in Daejeon. A match will be held between SSG, which wants to break the disgrace, and Hanwha, which has a busy way to go.
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