In this file photo from Sept. 24, 2024, LG Twins players celebrate their 14-5 win over the SSG Landers in a Korea Baseball Organization regular-season game at Incheon SSG Landers Field in Incheon, just west of Seoul. (Image courtesy of Yonhap) SEOUL, Oct.
4 (Korea Bizwire) — The defending South Korean baseball champions LG Twins and the runners-up KT Wiz will go at it again this fall. After battling in the Korean Series last November, the Twins and the Wiz will clash in the first round of this year’s Korea Baseball Organization postseason. The best-of-five series begins at 2 p.
m. Saturday at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, the Twins’ home in Seoul. As the No.
3 seed, the Twins earned a bye to this round and will have the home field advantage. The Wiz took a much longer route to get here. First, they had to beat the SSG Landers 4-3 in the fifth-place tiebreaker game on Tuesday just to sneak into the postseason.
Then in the wild card round against fourth-seed Doosan Bears, the Wiz won two straight games to become the first No. 5 seed to make it out of that phase. Behind excellent pitching by starters William Cuevas and Wes Benjamin, the Wiz held the Bears scoreless in two straight days, enjoying a 4-0 and then a 1-0 victory.
After playing three “win-or-go-home” games in three days, the Wiz will only have Friday off to take a breather before jumping right back into the postseason grind. The Twins, on the other hand, haven’t played since their regular-season finale last Satu.