5th place ticket holder unknown until last minute
5th place ticket holder unknown until last minute
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The owner of the fifth place ticket to baseball this fall will not be known until the last minute.
KT Wiz and SSG Landers, who are still battling for fifth place at the end of the season, defeated the Kiwoom Heroes and Hanwha Eagles, respectively, in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League on Monday.
KT, which finished with 72 wins, 70 losses and two draws in 144 games this season, has at least secured fifth place.
SSG, on the other hand, with 71 wins, 70 losses and two draws, needs to win its final game against Kiwoom in Incheon on Tuesday to tie for fifth place with KT.
If KT and SSG tie for fifth place, they will play a single-elimination game on Oct. 1 at Suwon Stadium to decide the fifth place.
However, if SSG loses the final game against Kiwoom, KT will be the sole fifth-place finisher and will play the fourth-place Doosan Bears for the wild card on Oct. 2.
On the day, KT was in a dark spot early in the game, falling behind 1-6.
However, in the bottom of the fourth inning, the team scored five runs on five hits, including a two-run double by Choi Jae-dae, to tie the game at 6-6.
In the bottom of the fifth, Oh Jae-il's RBI single made it 7-6, and KT scored a run in the bottom of the sixth on Kim Min-hyuk's RBI single.
In the bottom of the seventh, back-to-back doubles by Kang Baek-ho and Oh Jae-il and an RBI single by Cho Bo-dae scored two more runs for a thrilling 10-7 victory.
KT's Ko Young-pyo, who made a surprise relief appearance in the top of the fourth inning, pitched five innings of one-hit ball to save the day.
In Daejeon, SSG pounded out 12 hits to win 6-2.
Hanwha opened the scoring in the top of the first inning with a two-run double by Moon Hyun-bin.
However, 카지노사이트 SSG answered with a run in the top of the second when Oh Tae-gon doubled and scored on a wild pitch, and tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the third when Guillermo Heredia hit a two-run double.
In the top of the fourth, Oh Tae-gon doubled and Lee Ji-young singled to center to make it 3-2, and SSG added a run in the top of the seventh on Jung Jun-jae's RBI double to make it 4-2.
In the top of the eighth, Park Sung-han and Jeong Jun-jae scored two runs on RBI singles to tie the game.
SSG starter Kim Kwang-hyun pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits to earn his third career 170th win (98 wins).
In Busan, the KIA Tigers defeated the Lotte Giants 12-8 in a nail-biter.
Lotte foreign-born Victor Reyes went 1-for-5 in the loss, becoming just the second player in history to reach the 200-hit plateau in a single season.
Reyes, who will play his final game against the NC Dinos next month, will attempt to break the KBO single-season record of 201 hits set by Seo Gun-chang (now with the KIA Tigers) in 2014.
KIA's Kim Do-young, who has 38 home runs and 40 stolen bases, failed to add a home run to his tally with only two infield hits.
Kim will go to bat in the final game of the NC on the 30th, aiming to become the first Korean player to hit 40 home runs and 40 doubles.
In Daegu, where the No. 2 and No. 3 teams faced off, Moon Bo-kyung hit back-to-back home runs to lead the LG Twins to an 11-4 victory over the Samsung Lions.
Moon, batting fourth for LG, went 4-for-5 with two home runs and six RBIs.
Samsung's offense was paced by Park Byung-ho and Lee Sung-kyu, who each hit a home run.
Third-place LG, which finished the season with 76 wins, 66 losses and two ties, will begin preparations for the first round of the semifinals next month on May 5.
Second-place Samsung, which finished with 78 wins, 64 losses and two draws, will look to advance to the Korean Series in the playoffs, which begin on Oct. 13.
In Changwon, the Doosan Bears defeated the NC Dinos 4-3.
Doosan scored the game-winning run in the top of the ninth inning with the score tied 3-3 when Ryu Hyun-jun hit a single to left field.
Catcher Kim Jae-hwan hit his 29th home run of the season in the top of the third inning.
Fourth-place Doosan, which finished the regular season with 74 wins, 68 losses and two ties, will face either KT or SSG in the first game of the wild-card deciding series next month.
Meanwhile, five stadiums were sold out on the day, the last time all 10 teams played this season, bringing the total number of sold-out games this season to 217.