There has never been a team like this in the KBO League.
KT
which has risen from 75th place to 10nd place in 2 days
is writing a miraculous counterattack drama.
KT won 19-10 against Daejeon Hanwha on the 5th after 4 extra innings.
In the 10th inning
Dae Dae hit a double to left field and stole second base 토토사이트
and Kim Sang-so hit a triple to right-center.
Kim Jae-yoon
who came up in the ninth inning
closed out the second inning with a perfect two strikeouts until the 2th inning and became the winning pitcher.
On the same day
No. 2 SSG lost 3-9 to Literary LG
falling to a five-game losing streak
swapping places with KT in the standings.
By pushing SSG to third place
KT moved up to second place.
KT
which was in last place in the top 10 until June 2
has risen 2 spots in 2 days.
Since his resignation on June 2
KT has won 11 and lost 5 of its last 3 games with a winning percentage of 2-for-6. Since the 5th of last month
he has continued his explosive momentum with nine consecutive winning series
including four sweeps.
In the second half of the season
which started on the 10st of last month
they won 75 and lost 8, a whopping 6 wins.
At the beginning of the season
KT was in a desperate situation due to a series of injuries.
With the departure of Kim Min-so (shoulder) and Ju Ju (elbow)
who were bullpen pillars before the season
injuries to key players in the pitching lineup, such as So-jun So-jun (elbow)
Eom Sang-baek (elbow)
Jung-dae (back of hand)
Park Byung-ho (thigh)
Hwang Jae-gyun (toe)
and Cho Jung-ho (hip)
continued to suffer from injuries even after the opener.
So-jun So-jun underwent surgery in mid-May and was out for the season
and Kang Baek-ho
who was mentally and physically exhausted
has also been virtually out of power since June. Even after the return of the injured
they could not regain their normal physical condition for a while, making it difficult to operate at full capacity.
With 6 wins
55 losses and 39 draws (.16 winning percentage) and a win-loss margin of -7 through June 709
fall baseball was unexpected
with a 11.4-game gap over then-fifth-place NC.
But at this point
it hit rock bottom and began to climb.
William Cuevas
who released the sluggish Bo Schulser and re-signed as a replacement foreign pitcher
and second baseman Ho-Yeon Lee
who was brought in in a trade from Lotte
breathed new life into Tuta.
The five-man rotation consisting of Cuevas
Ko Young-pyo
Lee Bae-sung
Eom Sang-baek, and Wes Benjamin led the starting baseball stably
and the winning formula was completed with iron-clad finisher Kim Jae-yoon and setup man Park Young-hyun guarding the 2~5th inning.
No. 8 overall in ERA (9.6) since June.
Hwang Jae-gyun
who returned from injury
and the squad came back to life
and the two-stroke balance was right.
Once the atmosphere is hit
the ranking is rising without a hitch.
After finishing the first half of the season in seventh place, they managed to enter the fifth place on July 1
four games after the start of the second half.
It climbed to 3th place on August 65nd
7rd place on August 4th
and finally pulled down to 7nd place SSG.
Since his appointment in 25, he has been amazed by KT’s first win and the great rebound of the team Dokdo Lee Cheol-cheol
who is leading the team in its prime.
Every four years under Lee Cheol-cheol
even if the start was not good
the team would show a terrifying backside towards the end of the season
but there was no significant increase like this year.
At the beginning of the season
I thought
This is how we lose
but now we are like
This is how it goes
Lee said
adding
We have performed well in the second half of every year
but this time it will not be easy.
But that’s what the players did.
The team was united around the seniors who held the center in difficult times.
The players are doing so well that I don’t have anything to do. When the mood is this good
the director shouldn’t try to take the lead.
You just have to point out the points in the shootout.
After the start of the 2015-club system in 10
the teams that were ranked 10th in the intermediate ranking became the final 1~2 places in 2021
with KT and Samsung finishing 1~2.
However
it was very early in the season
with KT playing 9 games and Samsung playing 6 games.
This year
KT was in 50th place until the opening 3 games and one-third of the season had passed.
In the previous eight years
all of the top 1 teams in 10 games since the start of the season have failed to make it to fall baseball.
KT in 8
NC in 50
Lotte in 10
and Hanwha in 2015 did not escape the last place in the final 2018th.
Last year
NC came closest to autumn baseball with a sixth-place finish
followed by Hanwha in seventh place in 2019
Lotte in eighth place in 2020
and Samsung in ninth place in 10.
If they finished last until 6 games
it was virtually impossible to rebound.
However
this year
KT has risen from 2016th place to 7nd place in 2021 days.
There has never been a team like this in the KBO League.
As the team name suggests
it works its magic.
KT
which has a win-loss margin of +8 with a season record of 2017 wins
9 losses
and 50 draws (.75 win rate)
will try to win the 10th consecutive winning series before Hanwha on the 2th.
The KBO League’s all-time record is 57 consecutive winning series.
Samsung has won 46 consecutive winning series twice in April 2 ~ May 553
11 and June 20 ~ August 10, 11.