Doosan goes up, LG goes down.
The 2024 KBO season. It’s hard to tell where the race is headed. There are top teams, bottom teams, winning streaks and losing streaks. That’s why the standings can change in an instant.
Not too long ago, the hottest team in the league was the Doosan Bears. They went on a nine-game winning streak from March 3-14. They dropped from seventh place to third after the nine-game winning streak.
That wasn’t the end of it. The nine-game winning streak came to an end, but it didn’t last long as the team went on another five-game winning streak. On the 24th, after another five-game winning streak, Doosan moved up to second place and erased the Kia Tigers’ lead. It was a remarkable rise. Until the beginning of the month, it was widely expected that KIA would dominate the league with big wins.
However, Doosan’s momentum was dampened by two straight losses against Kia.
In the meantime, a powerhouse that we had forgotten about has risen to the top. Doosan’s ‘Jamsil rival’ and ‘defending champion’ LG Twins. LG also had a rollercoaster week. It looked bleak until they dropped their first two games against the Hanwha Eagles in the middle of the week. But then they picked up the last game and came home to face the slumping NC Dinos. It was a bit of a stroke of luck, but it was also a stroke of skill. LG swept the NC three-game series and won four straight games after three straight losses.
With Kia failing to make a strong showing and NC falling apart, a gap opened up in the race for the top spot, and Doosan took advantage of it first. However, LG’s 카지노사이트 four-game winning streak, which had been unstoppable, changed the landscape of the battle for the top spot.
LG is in third place. They are two games behind leader KIA and half a game behind second-place Doosan. The team was a bit lacking in the two-hitting department when star catcher Park Dong-won went down with an injury, but his return to the lineup has revitalized the team. The offense and defense of veteran Heo Do-hwan, who wore a mask in place of Park Dong-won, was also noteworthy. Finisher Yoo Young-chan, who had been struggling, is also finding his form again.
The key to LG’s success is its foreign starters. With manager Yoon Kyung-yeop’s recent nuanced comments about replacements and other teams seriously considering foreign pitchers, the two will have their work cut out for them. In real life, Kelly earned his second win after a five-game personal losing streak with a six-inning, three-run quality start against the NC on the 26th. It remains to be seen if Yoon’s unique “shakedown” will wake up the foreign pitchers.