KT has been winning series for 9 consecutive years since the Kiwoom match in early July
There is a team whose situation has completely changed in two months. They are KT Wiz and Kiwoom Heroes, who experienced baseball last fall.
First of all, KT has turned into the hottest team since the All-Star break and is bombing the league.
KT also won the away game against Doosan at Jamsil Stadium on the 16th and won four consecutive games. KT, which has already completed the Winning Series, has been on the rise for nine consecutive Winning Series since the match against Kiwoom on the 11th of last month.
In fact, KT seemed to give up its expectations for this season as it fell to the bottom in early June. However, after finishing last, he started to draw an upward curve.
KT, which is in its ninth consecutive Winning Series, has risen one step by one, and has already caught up with second-place SSG by one game, shaking the game of the ranking battle.
KT's rising factor is not dependence on a specific player, but team synergy. On top of that, starting with Ko Young-pyo, who became the league's top pitcher, it even has a bullpen structure such as Park Young-hyun, Um Sang-baek, and Kim Jae-yoon of the Pilseungjo.
On the other hand, Kiwoom Heroes is showing the exact opposite of KT.
Until June, when KT was in the lower ranks, Kiwoom remained in fifth place and continued a fierce mid-tier fight.
However, a major unfavorable factor broke out last month right after the All-Star break, which was the injury of key hitter Lee Jung-hoo. On top of that, Won Jong-hyun of Pil Seung-jo was also on the operating table due to an elbow injury.
Kiwoom has been in autumn baseball for five consecutive years since 2018, and if the scope is expanded to 10 years, it is making it to the postseason every year except 2017. In particular, last season, he went up to the Korean Series after the playoffs and competed for the championship. 스포츠토토
Kiwoom is also at the top of the league in terms of objective power. Kiwoom's Lee Jung-hoo has left, but the league's best pitcher Ahn Woo-jin is still spraying a powerful ball.
But the problem is synergy. No matter how well Ahn Woo-jin throws, he often loses the victory due to the bullpen's arson, and the batters are also suffering from a lack of cohesion.
In fact, Kiwoom ranks last in the bullpen's number of blon saves and average earned runs this season, and so does the team's OPS.