The semi-playoff first-round pick Pitcher was revealed: The Doosan Bears chose Chris Flexen and the lg Twins chose Lee Min-ho.
Doosan and lg will play in the first game of the semi-playoff at the Jamsil-dong Stadium in Seoul on the 4th. Doosan, who finished third in the regular season, focused on maintaining his Kyonggi sense by combining rest and training, and lg, who finished fourth, won 4-3 after 13 extra-time bloodbaths in a wild card decision against Kiwoom Heroes on the 2nd.
The postseason confrontation between Doosan and lg is only seven years since 2013. Doosan, who briefly trained at the Jamsil-dong Stadium on the 1st and 2nd, scheduled training at Jamsil-dong from 2 pm on the 3rd. lg, who had a superb Kyonggi to 13 times the previous day, decided to take a rest for three days to recover.
The first-round pick Pitcher, released on Thursday, is Doosan Flexen and lg Lee Min-ho. Doosan was worried about Raul Alcantara and Flexen, but Flexen came out first after the wild card decision ended in Kyonggi. Alcantara started the final game of the regular season with Kiwoom on October 30 and played 104 innings in eight innings. After a four-day break, it is judged that the first round of the semi-playoff could be a bit too much.
Flexen is also in good shape recently: Flexen was outstripped by 4-game loss Earned run average 0.85 in 5Kyonggi, which went on the mound for a month in October. In 3123 innings, he struck out 42 strikeouts. This year, he scored three runs in 1 win and 6 innings in 1 Kyonggi.
Meanwhile, lg will be hit by 'Young Gun' Lee Min-ho, who chose Lee Min-ho and Chung Chan-heon as 'unexplored players' in the wild card game. It was a decision with the possibility of starting. lg gave up the first Kyonggi of the Doosan game to rookie Lee Min-ho because he poured Lim Chan-gyu as the last Pitcher after Casey Kelly Clarkson in the wild card game.
Lee Min-ho's performance against Doosan was not bad; he had a 1-loss Earned run average 2.57 without a win in the regular season 4Kyonggi. He has scored two runs in five innings in two of his four starts.