LG vs Doosan, 7th match in fall baseball... Doosan dominates with 4 wins and 2 losses.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Hyeon-gu = The LG Twins and Doosan Bears, ‘rivals under one roof’ at professional baseball Jamsil Baseball Stadium, will face each other for the 7th time in fall baseball.

LG, ranked 4th in the regular league, and Doosan, ranked 5th, will play a wild card match at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul at 6:30 pm on the 14th.

If LG draws or wins this game, it will advance to the semi-playoffs (semi-PO, 3 wins out of 5). Doosan must win all of the wild card games, which can be played in up to two games, to advance to the semi-PO position.

This is a game that will depend on which team can get rid of its home stadium, Jamsil Baseball Stadium, which will be demolished at the end of this year, first.

LG and Doosan will clash in the postseason for the 7th time in 5 years, following 1993 and 1998 (semi-playoffs), 2000 and 2013 (playoffs), and 2020 and 2021 (semi-playoffs).

This is the first time that a team has competed in a wild card match.

In the fall tournament, Doosan often dropped LG. LG took the playoff ticket in 1993 and 1998, but in the next four matches, Doosan secured a spot in the upper round.

In this season's opponent record, LG overwhelmed Doosan with 11 wins, 1 draw, and 4 losses.

However, it is difficult to predict what the outcome will be as LG's morale was broken as they did their best to take 3rd place until the last day of the regular season but were unable to achieve their goal, while Doosan secured 5th place early and prepared for the wild card match with ease.

Doosan is about to send out the one-two punch of Kwak Bin and Choi Min-seok to defeat LG's brunt.

Doosan lost twice to KT Wiz in the 2024 wild card match, becoming the first victim of the 4th place team being eliminated. This time, they will challenge LG for an 'upset' (an upset where a lower-ranked team defeats a higher-ranked team).

LG must improve the scoring power of its batting line, which has not been able to revive even after September, to pass the first hurdle of fall baseball.

Go Woo-seok, who returned to the team after three years and played an active part in the bullpen with 3 wins, 1 loss, 1 save, 5 holds, and an ERA of 1.57, cannot play in the postseason, so he must score a lot of points to increase his chances of winning.