Professional baseball team Doosan is rushing toward the post-season (PS)메이저놀이터 with great momentum ahead of fall. The team went from the team’s longest winning streak in July to a crisis last month, but managed to bounce back.
Doosan won 8 to 4 away against KIA in the ‘2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League’ held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 18th. They swept a three-game series away to Gwangju against ranked rival KIA.
This is Pajuk’s 7th consecutive win since the second game of the double header against Samsung on the 9th. The competition for fall baseball is on the rise.
Doosan, ranked 4th, widened the gap with KIA, who had lost 5 games in a row, to 2 games. KIA barely maintained 5th place in win percentage, ahead of 6th place SSG, which did not have a game that day.
Doosan had a team-record 11 consecutive wins last July. He rose from 6th to 3rd place, raising expectations for fall baseball.
However, they suffered from the aftereffects of their winning streak, including 5 consecutive losses last month. Doosan fell to 5th place after July 1, and after 5 consecutive losses, they fell to 7th place, and PS hopes seemed to be disappearing.
However, in September, the winning streak started again like a lie. Last week, Doosan had a team batting average of .3013, including Cho Soo-haeng (batting average of .500) and Kang Seung-ho (batting average of .477.1), and hit 6 home runs in 4 games. The performance of veteran infielder Kim Jae-ho, who resurrected with a batting average of .344.2 in the second half, cannot be left out.
On this day, Doosan also won with an active batting lineup. In the first inning, back-to-back hits by Jeong Soo-bin and Jose Rojas gave the team the first run with no outs on second and third base, and Yang Seok-hwan’s infield grounder. In the 3rd inning, Rojas won the game with a three-run home run with no outs on first and second base thanks to Jo Soo-haeng’s right-handed hit and Soo-bin Su-bin’s hit to the body. Following Yang Seok-hwan’s heavy hit, Yang Eui-ji hammered KIA starter Hwang Dong-ha with a left-handed two-pointer to drive a wedge.
Starting pitcher Kwak Bin also pitched 6 innings, allowing 8 hits, no walks, 5 strikeouts, and no runs. They won their 11th win (7 losses) of the season and revealed their prospects for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Hanwha defeated KT 6-2 at home in Daejeon and escaped a 4-game losing streak. The gap between 2nd place KT and 3rd place NC, which did not have a game that day, has been reduced to 1 game.