SEOUL, Nov. 6 (BUS): With the teams winning twice each, the home ace’s rematch will be the pivotal fifth game of the South Korean baseball championships on Monday.
The SSG Landers will bring back left-footed player Kim Kwang-hyun for the start of Game 5 of the Korean Series, starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Incheon SSG Landers Field in Incheon, west of Seoul. Yonhap Entertainment reports that Kiwoom Heroes will face powerful right-hander An Woo-jin.
Both stadiums started their first game last Tuesday, and neither of them got a decision on the champions winning 7-6 in 10 runs.
Kim gave up four runs, two unearned, in five hits and three runs in 5 and 2/3 innings, although he also hit six. That was pulled after 2 2/3 runs after a blister appeared on his middle finger. He made a home run and walked two hits, while hitting four.
It was only natural that someone would be in line to start the fourth game on Saturday on a three-day break. Instead, they leaned on emergency player Lee Seung-ho to take that match 6-3 to tie even the best of seven series, and An would now take the stack at regular rest.
An and Kim placed first and second in the ERA during the regular season. Kim, the four-time Korean Series Champion, will go after his fourth win of his career in the title role, while Ann chases after his first win.
There have been 10 previous K-series in which the two contestants tied 2-2, and the team that won the fifth match won the title on eight occasions.
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