After Lim Chan-gyu gave up 5 runs, only 1 point was given to the LG bullpen... The batting line only made up 3 points.

The professional baseball LG Twins were driven to the edge after realizing their lethargic hitting power in the second game of the semi-playoffs (semi-PO, 3 wins out of 5 games).

In the second game of the semi-PO against KIA held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, Jeollanam-do on the 18th, LG gave up 5 points in the first inning and lost 3-6.

Starting pitcher Lim Chan-gyu, who came to the mound despite the sadness of losing his mother-in-law, gave 5 points and was hit, and LG's sure-win relief pitching team, which came in from the first inning, gave only 1 more point.

However, the batting line, including starting pitcher Adam Oller, failed to attack the KIA mound and was only able to score 3 points.

Lim Chan-gyu collapsed in the first inning after hitting five consecutive hits with one out and first and second bases. They allowed consecutive doubles to Na Seong-beom, Kim Sun-bin, and Han Jun-su and were knocked down.

With one out and second and third base behind 0-2, LG pitching coach Kim Gwang-sam went to the mound to buy time and interrupt Kim Sun-bin's at-bat, but left-hander John Kennedy received the baton only after giving up three hits in a row to Kim Sun-bin, Han Jun-su, and Ha Joo-seok.

LG formed a semi-PO roster with 14 pitchers. The starting staff includes three pitchers, Anders Tolhurst and Lim Chan-gyu, who lost in Game 1, and Carlos Carrasco, who is scheduled to start in Game 3, and 11 are bullpen members.

Among them, closer Son Joo-young, who is recovering from a herniated disc in his neck, made his sixth test appearance and pitched one inning. Excluding Son Joo-young, who will soon return to the closer, the relief pitchers are Woo Kang-hoon, Lee Woo-chan, Lee Jeong-yong, Kim Kang-ryul, Kim Jin-soo, Kim Yun-sik, Jang Hyun-sik, Park Si-won, and Kim Young-woo.

When classifying Kim Jin-soo, Woo Kang-hoon, Lee Woo-chan, Kim Kang-ryul, and Kennedy as a sure-to-win pitching team, there had to be at least one long man among the remaining bullpen members who would pitch 2 to 3 innings when the starting pitcher gave up early.

However, because there was no suitable candidate, LG had no choice but to bring in Pil Seung-jo from the first inning.

LG's bullpen situation would have been much better if Go Woo-seok had been there, but he returned too late from the U.S. and cannot play in the postseason due to regulations.

Following Kennedy, Lee Woo-chan (3 times), Woo Kang-hoon (4 times), Son Ju-young (6 times), Kim Kang-ryul (7 times), and Kim Jin-soo (8 times) cooled KIA's heated 'window' and did more than 200% of their work.

However, LG was on the verge of elimination due to a batting lineup that showed no signs of improvement even though they faced KIA 7 times in 3 weeks, including the regular season.

The limitations of only short hits without long hits were obvious. LG had 9 hits, 1 more than KIA, but had only 1 extra-base hit.

The LG batting line scored only 3 runs in 13 innings in two semi-PO games against KIA's one-two punch, James Nail, and Aller.

Coach Yeom's face, who was looking forward to the revival of 'offensive baseball', also hardened towards the end of the game.