With the KIA Tigers winning the regular season title, the Samsung Lions seems to have virtually confirmed the second place title. The team is five games apart from the third-ranked LG Twins, and has reduced the magic number to three.
The third, fourth and fifth places are unknown yet. Third place LG is yet to be confirmed. As the team lost 3-7 to Lotte on Wednesday, the team lost to fourth place Doosan Bears, which beat Samsung, by 1.5 games. It is also two games behind fifth place KT.
On top of that, sixth-ranked SSG Landers and fifth-ranked KT are also two games apart, so it is not yet possible to predict the ranking prematurely.
LG's downfall is notable. In September, the team ranked ninth overall with four wins and seven losses. Even with a 50% win rate, Suseong can afford to stay in the third place, but it is not easy.
The mound is not bad. He ranks second overall with an earned run average of 4.18 in September. Notably, the starting lineup is showing good performance by ranking third with an earned run average of 3.53. The problem is that the bullpen is weak.
The bigger problem is hitting. In September, his team's batting average stood at 271, ranking seventh overall. He is particularly weak in chances. His batting average in scoring ranges from 252. He is ranking ninth overall. Since he has created many chances to fail to score a point, he often lets go of the mood. At the match against Lotte on Thursday last week, he created a chance to load the bases with one out in the top of the eighth inning when his team was losing 3-4, but failed to score due to Park Hae-min's shallow outfield fly and Koo Bon-hyuk's fly to center field, and lost 3-7 when he gave up three more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Austin, who ranks first in RBIs, has weakened since September. He only posted one hit from nine times at bat in the scoring position, and No. 4 Moon Bo-kyung also has two hits from 12 times at bat. Park Dong-won has no hit from 10 times at bat.
Kim Hyun-soo is showing good performance with 5 hits in 11 at-bats, Hong Chang-ki 5 hits in 19 at-bats, and Park Hae-min 5 hits in 11 at-bats, but he is struggling as the central batters are sluggish.
LG will hold three consecutive games against Doosan at Jamsil starting on Tuesday. It seems that the third place in this game could be determined to some extent. In this season's matches, LG is slightly ahead with seven wins and six losses.
In particular, since they are rivals in Jamsil, their pride is at stake, which is expected to attract more attention. 스포츠토토
It is better to go straight to the semi-playoff than to have a wild card game. Will he be able to keep the pride of last year's championship team.