Will SSG Landers be able to join the fall baseball feast? It cannot be evened. They must win. If SSG wins, it will hold the fifth place match (tiebreaker) for the first time in the 43-year history of the KBO league.

SSG will play a 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League home game against the Kiwoom Heroes at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at SSG Landers Field in Incheon. It is the final regular season match between SSG and Kiwoom this season.토토사이트

This is not just the last game of the season. The fate of SSG's fall baseball is at stake. SSG is currently ranking sixth in the league with 71 wins, 70 losses and two draws. It has a gap of 0.5 games with KT Wiz (72-70 wins, two draws) at the fifth place.

The number of cases is simple. If SSG wins, it will have a tiebreaker for fifth place. On the other hand, if SSG ties or loses, KT advances to the wild card game, and SSG suffers from elimination.

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) introduced the first-place match in 2020, and then established a fifth-place match in 2022. The joint second-to-fourth-ranked team determines the ranking (multiple points based on the opponent's record, in the order of the previous year's ranking), but the first-place and fifth-place teams compete in a never-ending match. For fans, it is bound to be exciting. The first-place match was held once in 2021 (KT-Samsung), but the fifth-place match has never been held yet.

First of all, it is true that many people are dominating SSG. SSG is leading Kiwoom in objective power this season. In addition, SSG also had an overwhelming advantage with 11 wins and 4 losses in this season's opponent team. Moreover, SSG has won three consecutive games in the last 10 games, and is in a good mood with 8 wins and 2 losses. On the other hand, Kiwoom has only won two games and lost eight games in the last 10 games.

The starting pitcher for SSG is Drew Anderson, a foreign pitcher. Anderson pitched in 23 games (23rd starting pitcher) this season, and posted 10 wins, 3 losses and an ERA of 4.07. During 110 ⅔ innings, he posted 97 hits (11 homers), 51 walks, 150 strikeouts and 55 runs (50 earned runs), WHIP (per-inning allowance) of 1.34 and a batting average of 0.233. He pitched nine quality starts (less than three earned runs in six innings as a starter). He has displayed strong performance against Kiwoom in four games this year with three wins and no loss in ERA of 2.21.

In response, left-hander Yoon Suk-won will take the mound as the starting pitcher. After graduating from Busan National University, Gaeseong Middle School, and Busan National High School, Yoon joined the team last year as the 36th overall pick in the fourth round of the 2022 World Cup. He will make his first career start. Yoon recorded 4.50 ERA with two wins and no losses in 21 games last year, and recorded 12.60 ERA in 10 games this year. He has 29 hits (three homers) with six walks and two strikeouts (21 earned runs). He has no record of playing in the game against SSG this year.

If the fifth-place tiebreaker is completed, a showdown of fate will be held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon at 5 p.m. on the 1st. The postseason has not even begun yet, but the atmosphere is already heating up.