'What about baseball, which cracked KT, and the match against Samsung?' 62.1% → 85.7% of KT's steal success rate. How much will 60% of the Samsung match go up?
Oct 13, 2024
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One of the driving forces that enabled LG to win the semi-playoff with 3 wins and 2 losses was its mobility. He stole a total of 12 times in five semi-PO games. Shin Min-jae recorded five, setting a new record for the most stolen bases in semi-PO history, Park Hae-min, Kim Dae-won and Moon Sung-joo each succeeded two, and Oh Ji-hwan also recorded one. The only failures were Kim Dae-won's second base steal in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1, and Choi Seung-min's second run in Game 5 and the pitcher's check. The steal success rate reached a whopping 85.7%.
Stealing bases play a role in boosting the atmosphere by creating scoring chances if successful. In the bottom of the third inning of the second game, Park Hae-min and Moon Sung-joo's double steal was like that. The steal began to break down KT's wall, and in the last 5th game, the steal triggered an opponent's error, creating better chances, scoring and winning.
In fact, LG's steal success rate, which advocates running baseball, was not high. Last year, he ranked first in stolen bases with 166 but also failed with 101, with a success rate of only 62.2% of stolen bases.
Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop said he would increase the success rate even if the number of stolen bases was reduced this season, but the performance was not very good.
The number of stolen bases was reduced from 267 to 250 last year. The success of stealing also increased to 171. The number of stolen bases has been 79, the highest number this year. So, the steal success rate was 68.4 percent. It was the lowest success rate in the 9th place overall.
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In the regular season with KT this year, the success rate was low at 62.1% due to 18 successes and 11 failures, but the part that increased the success rate in the semi-PO is definitely a scene to watch in the playoffs.
Manager Yeom said, `As we have done in the regular season, we have to play baseball in Jamsil and win baseball with big balls on the road" he emphasized. There is no reason not to play against Samsung.
LG, which attempted a total of 30 stolen bases against Samsung this season, made 18 of them and failed 12 times. The success rate was only 60 percent.
Samsung's stolen base deterrence rate this season is 29.8%, ranking second after the NC Dinos (36.7%).
Kang Min-ho had a 23.4% steal deterrence rate, and Lee Byung-hun had a 21.4% stop rate.
Opponents pitchers, catchers, and infielders are always prepared because they know a lot of LG runners play. In particular, LG destroys the pitcher's mentality by playing baseball intensively when a pitcher with a slow quick motion throws.
What kind of steal success rate will LG show in this playoff. The higher the success rate, the weaker the opponent's defense is, and the higher the probability of scoring and the higher the probability of winning. On the contrary, Samsung needs to catch a steal and block LG's flow to see the Korean Series.
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indyk@sportschosun.com
