'Is it true that he scored three home runs, 14 hits, and 10 points on the first day after taking a two-week break.' Let's go to KS even if it's Eldorado.' Samsung and LG won 10-4 with nine pitchers devastated. KS odds 75.8%
Oct 13, 2024
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The Samsung Lions won their first victory in the Korean Series with a huge explosion of batters amid the strong support of 'El Dorado'.
Samsung won 10-4 in the first round of the playoffs against the LG Twins at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 13th with 14 hits, including Koo Ja-wook's three-run shot, Kim Young-woong's solo shot, and Diaz's two-run shot, and starter Denny Reyes' one run in six ⅔ innings. In the best-of-five playoff, which has been played 33 times in history, the number of winning teams in Game 1 to advance to the Korean Series is 25, with a 75.8% probability.
Samsung, which took a two-week break after finishing second in the regular league, was worried about the sense of the game, but from the first game, home runs were hit and all the starting hitters were hit, raising expectations for advancing to the Korean Series.
LG was expected to face physical difficulties as it played during the day after a day off after a bloody battle with KT Wiz until Game 5 of the semi-playoff. Choi Won-tae, the trusted starter, collapsed in the beginning, forcing him to play hard.
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LG played in the first game as Hong Chang-ki (right wing), Shin Min-jae (second baseman), Austin (first baseman), Kim Hyun-soo (left wing), Oh Ji-hwan (striker), Moon Bo-kyung (third baseman), Park Dong-won (catcher), Park Hae-min (middle fielder), and Moon Sung-joo (designated hitter). LG, which played as No. 4 Oh Ji-hwan, No. 5 Kim Hyun-soo, and No. 6 Moon Bo-kyung in the fifth round of the semi-PO, placed Kim as No. 4 on the day. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop said, `I have a good batting sense recently and my opponent is not bad. I thought it would be good to raise Kim Hyun-soo to No. 4 so I decided" he said.
Both Samsung and LG are not teams with strong bullpens, so they are highly dependent on starting. The key to the game was how long Samsung starter Denny Reyes and LG starter Choi Won-tae held out.
The conclusion was that Samsung's batters burst from the first day and the game was quickly decided.
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LG, who lost a chance of two outs and runners on first and second bases with two walks in the top of the first inning, failed to get a hit against Reyes, but Oh Ji-hwan hit a solo shot over the right fence in the top of the fourth inning to record his first hit and first score. Samsung scored an additional point with a home run as soon as LG gained hope by chasing by three points at 1-4.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Kim Young-woong hit another superior solo shot. Eventually, LG starter Choi Won-tae was replaced. He gave seven hits (two homers) and five runs in three innings. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Diaz, one out and a runner on the first base, fired a superior two-run shot from LG's Kim Jin-sung, making the score even 7-1.
LG unexpectedly scored in a situation where it thought it would end like this. Samsung starter Reyes took the mound beyond the sixth inning until the top of the seventh inning, but eventually failed to fill the seventh inning.
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Song Eun-beom has a numbness in his left hand, so he will be replaced by Lee Seung-hyun, his left hand, who is scheduled to start Game 3. Hong Chang-ki hit an ordinary ground ball to the first baseman after a full-count match, but first baseman Diaz tried to handle it too leisurely, but he made an error that he couldn't catch it properly. At this time, two runners homered and closed the gap to 4-7, with Shin Min-jae hitting a timely hit that left the third base line with two outs and runners on the first and third bases. Things are changing rapidly as Austin's at-bat with two outs and runners on first and second bases.
Samsung immediately replaced the pitcher, and fireballer Kim Yoon-soo appeared. Kim Yun-soo, who caught the advantageous count of 2S with a fastball of 150km on the first pitch and a high curve of 125km on the second pitch, sprayed a high fastball outside of 152km on the third pitch, and Austin swung and missed. In the most urgent moment, Kim Yun-soo saved the team.
Samsung immediately hit back in the bottom of the seventh inning. Diaz's walk, Park Byung-ho's left-handed hit Kang Min-ho's sacrifice bunt, and Kim Young-woong's walk made the bases loaded with one out, and Lee Jae-hyun's fly to center field added one more point. Ryu Ji-hyuk walked and had another chance to load the bases, but Kim Sung-yoon, who played as a major defense from the top of the seventh inning, struck out swinging.
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Samsung's mound, which slowed down in the top of the seventh inning, became calm again. Following Kim Yoon-soo, Lim Chang-min blocked the eighth inning, and in the ninth inning, Kim Tae-hoon came up to grab two outs, and closer Kim Jae-yoon took the mound to catch Shin Min-jae and wrap up the game.
Samsung starter Reyes became the winning pitcher in his first postseason in Korea with four hits (one home run), two walks, one strikeout and three runs (one earned) in six ⅔ innings. He threw 23 fastballs of up to 149km, and gave LG's batters a long silence with 24 cutters, 22 changeups, 19 sliders, and 13 two-seam.
Yoon Jung-bin, who went second, scored three hits and two runs, Koo Ja-wook had three hits, one walk, three RBIs and two runs, and Diaz had one hit (homer) and three RBIs and one walk in two at-bats. Park Byung-ho also showed a good batting sense of 2 hits in 4 at-bats, indicating that his batting sense returned from the first day with a total of 14 hits on all the starting batters.
As Choi Won-tae collapsed, bullpen pitchers, which were not seen in the semi-playoff, started the game. After Choi Won-tae went down, Yoo Young-chan and Kim Jin-sung came up, and afterwards, pitchers such as Jung Woo-young, Kim Yoo-young, and Baek Seung-hyun, who manager Yeom Kyung-yeop will use as a must-win group, came up to control their pitching sense. With Lee Ji-gang, Lee Jong-joon, and Kim Dae-hyun coming out, LG posted as many as nine pitchers on the day. This is the most pitched tie for a pitcher in a playoff team.
LG's Kim Bum-seok, who was eliminated from the semi-PO entry and boarded the PO entry, appeared as a pinch hitter in the top of the ninth inning and hit a well-hit left double foul, but struck out.
In the second round of the PO at 6:30 p.m. on the 14th, Samsung's Won Tae-in and LG's Detrick Ens were expected to be selected.
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