Disappointing 5th place, Doosan challenges wild card

‘Disappointing 5th place’ Doosan challenges wild card upset with Kwak Bin and Brandon

Doosan, which finished the regular season in 5th place, has one loss and will play a wild card match against 4th place starting on the 19th.

The expressions on the faces of professional baseball Doosan Bears players, who played the last home game of the regular season on the 16th and opened the postseason ceremony, were dark.

Among fans, disappointment over the fact that 5th place was confirmed rather than anticipation of the postseason spread.

When Doosan coach Lee Seung-yeop took the microphone, some voices from the audience expressed their disappointment. 온라인카지노사이트

However, he has a chance to make up to Doosan.

Doosan lost 2-3 in the home game against SSG Landers held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 16th.

With the loss on this day confirming 5th place, Doosan will face the wild card match against the 4th place team with '1 loss' on the 19th.

Depending on the results on the 17th, the final day of the regular season, the wild card matchup will be confirmed.

Among SSG and NC Dinos, one team will advance directly to the semi-playoffs in 3rd place, and the other team will advance to the wild card match with 1 win in 4th place.

Doosan, with the possibility of 4th place gone, announced that Jang Won-Jun will be the starter against Incheon SSG on the 17th, the final game of the regular season.

If they were able to challenge for 4th place, they planned to send Choi Seung-yong as a starter in the game on the 17th.

With 5th place confirmed, coach Lee Seung-yeop began preparations for the wild card match.

Since 2015, there has never been a case where the 5th place defeated the 4th place in the wild card match introduced by the KBO and advanced to the semi-playoffs.

The 4th place team, which started with 1 win in all 8 games, advanced to the semi-playoffs.

In the wild card match, the series ends when the 4th place team first wins or draws 1.

The 5th place team must win both games to advance to the semi-playoffs.

Doosan Bears is aiming for the KBO League's first wild card match 'upset' in which the 5th-place team defeats the 4th-place team.

The starting cards prepared by Doosan are Kwak Bin and Brandon Waddell.

Although the situation is burdensome after suffering one loss, there is some hope for Doosan.

SSG, which is competing for third place until the end, cannot select Roenis Elias and Kim Gwang-hyun, and NC cannot select Eric Peddy and Shin Min-hyuk as wild card starters.

If they fall to 4th place, Doosan may have the upper hand in the 'battle of starting pitchers' considering the situation of the other two teams who have to play the wild card game with Oh Won-seok, Moon Seung-won (SSG), Tanner Turley, Lee Jae-hak, and Song Myung-ki (here NC).

Kwak Bin, who had never pitched at the Hangzhou Asian Games due to symptoms of phlegm, took the mound against the KIA Tigers on the 13th and dispelled concerns with a good pitching of 2 hits and 1 run in 6 innings.

Kwak Bin earned two wins against SSG this season by pitching 14 scoreless innings in two games, and although he suffered one loss against NC, he pitched well with an ERA of 3.07 (5 runs in 14⅔ innings) in three games.

In 2021, he also has 'big game experience' by appearing in the wild card game, semi-playoff, and Korean series in succession.

Brandon posted an ERA of 3.60 in 2 games and 1 win against SSG this season, and did not pitch in the NC game.

In three games in October, Brandon pitched solidly with an ERA of 0.47 (1 run in 19 innings), raising Doosan's expectations.

Doosan, which ranked 9th last year, rose to 5th place in the regular season this year.

However, considering Doosan's recent history of advancing to the Korean Series for seven consecutive seasons from 2015 to 2021, '5th place in the regular season' is not a report card that will satisfy fans.

Coach Lee Seung-yeop blamed himself, saying, “I wasn’t good enough, so the results weren’t as good as I wanted.”

At the same time, he also showed his desire for the postseason.

If Doosan succeeds in being the first in the KBO League to upset the wild card game, they will be able to play with the support of their Jamsil home fans in the 3rd and 4th semi-playoff games.