Lee Min-ho started the first leg of the 2020 KBO professional baseball semi-playoff at Jamsil-dong Stadium on the 4th and started in Doosan and Kyonggi, scoring 66 pitches, 5 hits, 1 home run, and 3 runs (three earned runs) in 3.1 innings. Lee Min-ho came out on 20 Kyonggi this season, winning 4-4 with an Earned run average of 3.69, and was the heavy player in his first postseason start. It is the first time in 30 years that lg's high school graduates will start the postseason.
The start was not good: Lee Min-ho gave Hur Kyoung-min a ball that fits his body in the first pitch from the start. And he allowed Jose Miguel Fernandez a two-run homer to pass the right fence on the second pitch, which would be strained by the burden, but Lee Min-ho remained calm. After the run, Oh Jae-il - Kim Jae-hwan - Park Kun-woo blocked all the central batting lines leading to Park Kun-woo and finished the inning without additional runs. And while he allowed a bunt hit to Jung Soo-bin in the second inning, there was no special Danger. In the third inning, he walked to Fernandez and hit Kim Jae-hwan to the first scorer Danger; however, Park Kun-woo was out on a second baseman grounder to score no runs.
Danger came in the fourth inning, giving up a walk to lead hitter Park Se-hyuk and hitting a heavy hitter against Kim Jae-ho. He caught the follow-up hitter Jung Soo-bin with a left fielder, but he hit a one-run double to Oh Jae-won. In the end, Lee Min-ho was replaced by Jin Hae-soo after giving a ball to Hur Kyoung-min again in the second and third bases.
If Lee Min-ho became the winner Pitcher in Kyonggi on the day, he could become a high school graduate who won the first postseason start for the third time ever. The first start of the postseason for a high school graduate is only two times in professional baseball history. The first protagonist was Lotte Mart's Jongseok Yeom, who won the semi-playoff first leg shutout against the Samsung Lions in 1992. It is the only record of all time for a high school graduate rookie to complete his first postseason appearance; Jongseok Yeom won the Rookie of the Year with 19 wins. The second was Doosan Kim Myung-jae, who led the team to a 1-0 victory in 2005 with four hits and no hits in five innings in the third game of the playoffs against Hanhwa.
Lee Min-ho presses batters with a fastball that crosses 150km and a high-speed slider combination of 140km early. But in the Kyonggi, Lee Min-ho threw a slider and hit a home run to left-handed hitter Fernandez and a double to Oh Jae-won. The postseason uses all the data analyzed by the opponent like a microscope throughout the season to make a strategy. Lee Min-ho, a fastball and slider two-pitch style, can be seen as not crossing the wall of the Doosan veteran hitters' goals and analysis.
Lee Min-ho is also cutting down on the need for a new type and recently polishing curves and changeups. If you fully master a third species that can be used as a main weapon, Lee Min-ho's power can be doubled. Lee Min-ho, who has confirmed both the bitter taste and possibility on the big stage of the postseason, is expected to grow further in the future as he has experienced.