NC Dinos and LG Twins, who are tied for second place at the beginning of the professional baseball season, clash at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul during the week.
The two teams won 9 wins and 5 losses side by side to chase the lead SSG Landers (8 wins and 4 losses) without a ride. NC and LG took a good chance to rise to first place according to the results.
Excluding foreign pitcher Taylor Widener (back pain) and foreign hitter Jason Martin (right flank pain), NC showed terrifying concentration and won more than 2 wins and 1 loss in the last 3 consecutive matches.
From the 7th to the 9th, we swept 3 consecutive weekend matches against Kiwoom Heroes, and last week, we defeated kt wiz and SSG with 2 wins and 1 loss, respectively.
LG posted 3 wins and 3 losses last week. In three consecutive away matches against the Lotte Giants, they lost by one point twice and raised the atmosphere that had subsided to two wins and one loss in three consecutive weekend matches against the Doosan Bears.
However, it was regrettable that it collapsed due to the collapse of the bullpen on the 16th after aiming for a three-game winning streak against Doosan.
LG is the team that runs first overall with a team batting average of 0.296, and NC is the team that ranks first in team ERA (2.49), so the match between spear and shield is expected to spark.
Kiwoom and SSG will have their first return match since last year’s Korean Series (KS) in Incheon on the weekend.
Kiwoom, who challenged to win the championship for the first time since its founding, had a close match with SSG in the Korean Series last year with 2 wins and 2 losses, before kneeling down and swallowing tears one after another in the 5th and 6th games at SSG스포츠토토 Landers Field in Incheon. There, with deep regret, he meets SSG again.
Kiwoom started the season at the bottom, but last weekend, it swept 3 consecutive weekend matches against the KIA Tigers and sprinted for 4 consecutive wins, rising to a tie for 4th place.
In particular, it is nice to see the stretching of the main gun Lee Jung-hoo, who fired a goodbye two-run gun on the 16th and fired a signal flare for resurrection.
Contrary to his name, Lee Jung-hoo, who was struggling with a low batting average in the early 20s, got 4 hits in 10 at-bats and 6 RBIs in 3 consecutive weekend games, starting his own track.
SSG’s batting line hasn’t caught fire yet, but his strong waistline gives the team a lot of strength in the early stages. The SSG bullpen’s ERA is 2.01, the lowest in the league.
It is also of interest whether the Hanwha Eagles and KIA, who fell into the bottom ranks with 8 losses each, will rebound.
Hanwha will invite Doosan and LG in turn to Daejeon this week to play a six-game series, and KIA will leave Busan to face Lotte and return home to face Samsung Lions.
Hanwha is burdened with a match against top teams. KIA is highly likely to struggle at the bottom of the rankings if it fails to change the atmosphere in six consecutive matches against rival teams that are in the lower ranks.