100% try? The first-ever update?Choi Seung-yong vs Benjamin 2nd round clash

Oct 02, 2024

Doosan Choi Seung-yong (left)-Wes Benjamin. Sports Chosun DB

Now it's one game. The winner will soon be the semi-PO entry team.

Doosan Bears and KT Wiz will play the second game of the postseason wild card game at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 3rd.

Doosan will have Choi Seung-yong as the starting pitcher, and KT will have Wes Benjamin as the starting pitcher.

Choi Seung-yong had two wins, no losses and a 6.00 ERA with one hold in 12 games.

Choi Seung-yong was only able to pitch for the first team at the end of July due to elbow fatigue fracture ahead of this season. He entered the season as a relief pitcher, but started in mid-August as a starter. He showed some ups and downs, but he began to play his role perfectly as a starter at the end of the season. He pitched quality start (3 earned runs in more than 6 innings) against KIA Tigers on September 19 and allowed 2 runs in 5 innings against NC Dinos on the 24th, his last appearance of the season.

Against KT, he started on August 18 and allowed five hits, one walk, one strikeout, and three runs in one ⅔ inning.

In KT, Benjamin will start. Benjamin, who has 11 wins, 8 losses and an ERA of 4.63 in 28 games this season, was in a bad shape at the end of the season, contrary to Choi Seung-yong. On the 22nd of last month, he collapsed with five runs in five ⅔ innings against SSG, and on the 28th against Kiwoom, he was shaken with six runs (four earned runs) in three ⅓ innings.

He lost one game and had an 8.18 ERA in three games against Doosan.

A game between the Doosan Bears and KT Wiz in the first round of the wild card decision at Jamsil Stadium on the 2nd. KT Cuevas is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.10.02/

A game between the Doosan Bears and KT Wiz in the first round of the wild card decision at Jamsil Stadium on the 2nd. Doosan starter Kwak Bin is being replaced in the top of the second inning with no outs and runners on first base. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.10.02/

Meanwhile, in the first game, KT won 4-0 with William Cuevas' good pitching. For KT, Cuevas scored six scoreless innings, and Kim Min (⅓ scoreless innings), Son Dong-hyun (one ⅔ scoreless inning), and Park Young-hyun (one inning scoreless inning) took the mound.

Doosan played a difficult game against KT as Kwak Bin, who had five wins in six games, became an early substitute with four runs in one inning. Although Balazovic minimized the damage with four scoreless innings, Lee Kyo-hoon (⅓ scoreless innings), Lee Young-ha (⅔ scoreless innings), Kim Kang-ryul (one scoreless inning), Lee Byung-hun (⅓ scoreless innings), Choi Won-joon (⅔ scoreless innings), and Hong Gun-hee (one scoreless inning) took the mound in turn.

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