This season, the Rookie of the Year has effectively solidified as the Mini standard of KT Wiz, but the chance has come for lg Twins Lee Min-ho to make sure baseball fans know their true value.
Lee Min-ho will start in the first leg of the semi-playoff against the Doosan Bears at Jamsil-dong Stadium on the 4th. It is the first time in 30 years that lg's high school graduates will start the postseason.
Top Model on the record: If Lee Min-ho becomes the winner Pitcher, he will become the third high school graduate to win the first postseason start. The first start of the postseason for a high school graduate is only two times in professional baseball history.
The first protagonist was the Jongseok Yeom of the Lotte Mart Giants. Jongseok Yeom, who finished third in the series with 17 wins in 1992 and ranked first in the Earned run average (2.33), won the first round of the semi-playoff against the Samsung Lions. He gave up just five hits in nine innings and shut down the Samsung Lions batting line with no runs; it is the only record in history that a high school graduate has completed his first postseason start.
The second was 'Pitcher of the Empty' Kim Myung-je. Kim Myung-jae, who was the best prospect in 2005 with a down payment of 600 million won, recorded 7 wins and 6 losses and Earned run average 4.63 in the 2012 Korea Professional Baseball season. And he played his postseason debut game in the third playoff game against the Hanhwa Eagles that year. Kim Myung-jae, who came out as a starter to finish the second consecutive victory at the time, had more than expected four hits and no runs in five innings. Doosan won 1-0, Kim Myung-jae became the winner, and became the second protagonist to win the first PS start.
Narora is a glorious record that even high school graduates Pitchers did not get. Ryu Hyun-jin, who swept the rookie and MVP in the 2006 Earned run average - strikeout king, came out as the first starter in the second game of the semi-playoff against the KIA Tigers, but fell to the ground with five hits and three walks in 523 innings.
There are many baseball fans who remember that Kwang-hyun Kim won his first start in the Korean series in 2007, and Kwang-hyun Kim became the winner of the game. In the first game, he played PS debut as a relief Pitcher and started in the fourth game.
Lee Min-ho has come out in 20 games this season, winning 4-4 and hitting Earned run average 3.69. The bold pitching that pierced the body of the opponent with a confident figure was hard to see as a high school graduate.