KT Wiz head coach Lee Kang-cheol was ejected from the game.
KT lost the third game of the Korean Series against the LG Twins of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO Postseason 7-8 on Tuesday at KT Wiz Park in Suwon.
With the loss, KT fell to 1-2 in the series. After winning the first game, the team lost the second and third games in a row.
Their chances of winning the championship, which had soared to 74.4 percent with their Game 1 victory, dropped to 15 percent.
Historically, the team that won Game 1 has gone on to win the championship 29 out of 39 times (74%), but the team that lost Game 3 after winning Game 1 (including draws) has won only 3 out of 20 times.
It’s especially shocking that they lost without their “LG nemesis” Wes Benjamin.
Benjamin has been strong against LG this season, going 4-0 with a 0.84 ERA in five starts.
But today was different.
He was one home run short.
After loading the bases with a hit and a walk in the third inning, Benjamin gave up a three-run homer to Austin Dean.
KT took advantage of an RBI single by Hwang Jae-gyun in the third and an error in the bottom of the fifth to pull within 4-3. 바카라사이트
However, they gave it back in the sixth inning.
With the bases loaded in the sixth, Son Dong-hyun took the mound, but was hit by a two-run home run by Park Dong-won.
The duo of Park Young-hyun in the second inning and Son Dong-hyun and Pil Seung-jo in the third added to the shock as they were both hit by Park Dong-won.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, KT scored a run off LG closer Go Woo-seok, a tying RBI single by Hwang Jae-gyun, and a three-run homer by Park Byung-ho to win the game 7-5.
This seemed to be the end of KT’s victory, but they didn’t have the last laugh.
In the ninth inning, closer Kim Jae-yoon hung his head as he gave up a three-run homer to Oh Ji-hwan.
Especially in the ninth inning, there were some unfortunate calls.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, the umpire called Kim Jun-tae’s at-bat a false swing.
The third base umpire signaled a swing even though Kim’s bat did not turn.
At that moment, Lee Kang-cheol, the head coach, ran onto the field and approached the third base umpire to confirm the call.
