'Failure of the must-win card chosen by Yum Liang → the end of the cliff' The changed starter lost in a row of bad luck. Semi-PO eliminated 'Pronoun' Strikeout with a swing and miss due to chances on the second and third bases
Oct 16, 2024
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LG lost 5-10 in the second playoff game against the Samsung Lions at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 15th. The score difference is five points, but it was 1-10 at the start of the ninth inning. In the top of the ninth inning, Park Hae-min's solo shot and Kim Hyun-soo's three-run shot made a home run belatedly and narrowed the gap to 5-10 by scoring four points.
On this day, LG started Son Joo-young, who pitched a powerful pitching without allowing a run in the 3rd and 5th semi-PO games. Initially, he prepared as a starter for the third game, but as the second game was delayed by a day due to rain on the 14th, Son Joo-young was forced to use it a day earlier. If Son Joo-young plays in the second game, he can make Son throw once more if he goes to the fifth game.
If you take the second game and make it 1 win and 1 loss, you can get the upper hand in the starting confrontation between Lim Chan-kyu and Hwang Dong-jae and Reyes in the third and fourth games and finish the game quickly in the fourth game. If you make two wins and two losses, Son Joo-young can come out in Game 5, so it's worth trying.
In addition, Kim Bum-seok played as the designated hitter instead of Moon Sung-joo as the ninth hitter on the day. Moon Sung-joo was also out of the lineup on the 14th due to pain in his hamstring, but the pain did not disappear even after a day, making it difficult to play base, so Kim Bum-seok came forward instead. It's his first postseason start. Since it is a small Daegu stadium, if a home run hits, it can bring the atmosphere toward LG.
Unfortunately, however, the Sohn Joo-young-Kim Bum-seok card failed as a result.
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93 balls were sprayed on the day, and the maximum fastball speed was recorded at 150km, but most of them stayed in the early 140km range. Sliders, curves, and folk balls were added, but the count fight did not go well because the ball control was not done better than the semi-PO, and the number of pitches increased rapidly, failing to fill the fifth inning.
I didn't even follow my luck. Bad luck felt like all the bad luck had come together. At the bottom of the first inning with a 1-0 lead, he induced a fly ball that was missed by Diaz with two outs and second base, which flew to the left line and became a hit that both Kim Hyun-soo and shortstop Oh Ji-hwan could not catch. a 1-1 tie.
In the bottom of the second inning, Kim Young-woong, who had a good relative performance with no hits in seven at-bats after two outs, hit a home run. The first pitch curve was thrown high in the middle, and Kim Young-woong did not miss it and connected it with a home run slightly over the fence of the small Daegu stadium. If it was Jamsil, it was a double or a ball caught by right field, but it could be a home run because it was a small Daegu stadium.
At the bottom of the third inning, the misjudgment led to a run. There was a misjudgment in the match against Diaz with two outs and a runner on first base. Diaz reacted to the slider that fell outside for the fourth pitch in 1B2S. He took the bat away late, but catcher Park Dong-won asked the third baseman to make a decision with confidence. But the third baseman declared no swing. And on the straight broadcast screen, it was clear that Diaz's bat was more than half turned. The third inning should have ended with a strikeout, but it continued with a misjudgment at the third base, and Diaz hit a right-handed hit. And he even made an error at this time. Right fielder Hong Chang-ki threw a high ball and second baseman Shin Min-jae jumped, but he fell after hitting the glove. At this time, Lee Sung-kyu, who ran to third base, dug home and scored.
Son Joo-young, who recorded his first three-and-out in the bottom of the fourth inning, took revenge on the leader Kim Young-woong with a swing and miss strikeout in the bottom of the fifth inning, but allowed a walk to Jeon Byung-woo in the ninth inning. It has 93 pitches and has been replaced by Yoo Young-chan. Yoo Young-chan caught No. 1 Kim Ji-chan with a fly to left field, but allowed Kim Hun-gon to hit his first postseason home run. Son Joo-young's loss increased by one more point to four points. As it became 1-5, the atmosphere shifted toward Samsung.
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However, after picking the first ball, Kim Bum-seok fouled all of the fastballs that came toward the body of the second and third pitches, and eventually struck out swinging on a slider that fell outside for the fifth pitch.
After the game, Samsung starter Won Tae-in said about his improvement after being sluggish in the early stages "It's been so long since I came out in a real game with a lot of spectators, so I was overpowered, but I lost my sophistication." There was something rough in the second inning, but when I struck out Kim Bum-suk, the tangled thing came out"Overcoming the crisis, I gained confidence and was able to throw like I did in the season from the third inning."He picked his showdown with Kim Bum-suk as a turning point.
If he had hit a sacrifice fly or an infield grounder to bring in the third baseman, he could have recorded his first RBI and Timo could have led 2-1 again, but as he missed a big opportunity, LG was eventually dragged away, and the team lost weakly.
Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop also did not give Kim Bum-suk another chance by replacing him with Lee Young-bin in the top of the fifth inning, perhaps because he was disappointed.
The left-handed ace who showed the best condition in the semi-PO came out, so he should have won, but rather, he lost and saved Samsung's deception.
indyk@sportschosun.com
