'4th batter Kang Baek-ho will appear' KT must-win strategy, Ko Young-pyo → So Hyung-joon → Benjamin → Park Young-hyun on standby
Oct 01, 2024
|
You have to win no matter what. KT Wiz will play the fifth-place match against SSG Landers at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 1st. The two teams, which finished the regular season tied at 72 wins, 2 draws and 70 losses, will only get a ticket to the wild card final if they win the ranking match.
The losing team fails to advance to the postseason as it is.
KT has Um Sang-baek as its starting pitcher. Manager Lee Kang-chul explained, "(Ko Young-pyo) is not easy to take two days off, no matter how small the number of pitches he throws is." This is why Ko Young-pyo, a natural enemy of SSG, cannot start in the ranking match.
|
In the batting lineup, Kim Min-hyuk and Mel Rojas Jr. set up a 'table setter'. The central lineup, which leads to Jang Sung-woo, Kang Baek-ho and Moon Sang-cheol, was deployed. Kang Baek-ho will be the designated hitter. The bottom batting order was Oh Yoon-seok, Hwang Jae-gyun, Baejeongdae, and Shim Woo-jun.
KT, which played the first-place match against the Samsung Lions in 2021, will be the first team to play tiebreakers twice. Director Lee Kang-chul said, `It reminds me of 2021. "When the KBO sets new rules, it always seems like we're the first to do it," smiling "Our players seem to have already been trained as those experiences have been accumulated. I'm not nervous. I think we'll have to see who's lucky today."
youll@sportschosun.com
