Benjamin vs Lim Chan-gyu, KS Championship Trophy Direction 3rd Round Selection Match
Korean series with 1 win and 1 loss.
Announced as a starter for the 3rd game to be held in Suwon on the 10th.
The 2023 KBO Korean Series between KT Wiz and LG Twins is tightly contested with 1 win and 1 loss, and Wes Benjamin (30, KT) and Lim Chan-gyu (31, LG) will face off in the third game. 카지노사이트킹
After the second game of the Korean Series held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 8th,
KT coach Lee Kang-cheol and LG coach Yeom Kyung-yeop announced Benjamin and Lim Chan-gyu as starters for Game 3, respectively.
Wes Benjamin
For KT, left-handed pitcher Benjamin, who had 15 wins, 6 losses, and an average ERA of 3.54 in 29 regular season games, took on a key role in Game 3.
This is his first appearance in five days since appearing in Game 5 of the playoffs against NC Dinos on the 5th.
Benjamin is on the starting mound every five days in this fall baseball season.
His overall KBO League postseason record, including last year’s semi-playoffs, is 4 games, 1 win, 2 losses, and an average ERA of 3.27.
Benjamin showed off his ‘Grim Reaper’-like appearance against LG this season.
He has 4 wins and no losses in 5 appearances, with an earned run average of 0.84.
Wes Benjamin tightly tied up the left-handed batters that LG is proud of.
Oh Ji-hwan, Hong Chang-ki, and Park Hae-min all had a batting average of just 0.167 (2 hits in 12 at-bats) against Benjamin,
while Kim Hyun-soo’s batting average was 0.182 (2 hits in 11 at-bats).
Moon Bo-kyung had a batting average of 0.100 with 1 hit in 10 at-bats, and Moon Seong-ju had no hits in 7 at-bats.
Players playing in the Korean Series agree that “regular season opponent records do not mean much in short-term games.”
If Benjamin overturns this perception and plays ‘as usual’ against LG, KT’s victory becomes even closer.
In response to this, LG will have Lim Chan-gyu on the starting mound as scheduled.
Lim Chan-gyu
He is an avid LG fan who has supported LG since elementary school and cried, saying, ‘I don’t want to go to school’ when they finished second in the Korean Series in 2002.
Lim Chan-gyu, who calls himself a “successful otaku,” took on the important responsibility of saving LG, which was in crisis.
In the second game, LG’s starter Choi Won-tae gave up 4 runs in ⅓ innings,
leaving the mound without even completing the first inning, and starting the bullpen early.
In Game 2, the bullpen pitchers combined for 8⅔ innings without allowing any runs, but for LG,
the best scenario is for Lim Chan-gyu to last on the mound for as long as possible.
Lim Chan-gyu took the victory every time he came out in a situation where the starting lineup collapsed at the beginning of the season and was on the mound for LG.
He played a decisive role in regaining his strength.
Having had his best year by finishing the regular season with 14 wins, 3 losses, 1 hold, and an ERA of 3.43,
he needs to repeat the comeback performance of May, when he won all 4 games.
This year, he faced KT in the regular season and did not have good results.
He had 4 games, 1 win, 1 loss, 1 hold, and an ERA of 6.61.
In the KT batting lineup, Kim Min-hyuk, Kim Sang-soo (batting average of 0.571),
Hwang Jae-gyun (batting average of 0.500) showed a strong performance against Chan-gyu Lim.
However, Lim Chan-gyu did not give up a single home run to KT batters.
