Samsung Lions players leave the field after losing to the Kia Tigers 8-3 in Game 2 of the Korean Series at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 23, 2024. (Image courtesy of Yonhap) DAEGU, Oct.
25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Samsung Lions face a 2-0 deficit in the Korean Series after dropping the first two games against the Kia Tigers this week but it has not been an insurmountable hole. This is the 42nd playing of the Korean Series, the championship round in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason. And there have been 20 occasions where a team built a 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven series.
And twice has a team rallied from that deficit to win the championship — the 2007 SK Wyverns (currently SSG Landers) and the 2013 Lions. The 2007 series between the Wyverns and the Doosan Bears is best remembered for the seven-run outburst by the Wyverns in the top of the sixth inning of Game 3, which included four errors by the Bears and a bench-clearing incident. The Wyverns won that game 9-1 and went on to take the next three games as well.
Bears left-hander Lee Hei-chun threw behind the back of Kim Jae-hyun during that fateful sixth inning, prompting players from both benches to charge the field. It was seen as a payback attempt by the Bears after seven of their players got nailed by a pitch over the first two games of the series. Years later, players from both sides in that series still point to that sixth-inning mayhem as the turning poi.
