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In the 2020 Korean series of professional baseball NC Dinos and Doosan Bears, at least six games were played.
NC and Doosan closely faced each other with 2 wins and 2 losses while playing four games in the Korean Series, which was 4 wins out of 7 matches.
The two teams will take a day off on the 22nd and will play 5-7 consecutive games starting on the 23rd.
This is an unpleasant long-term battle for Doosan, who has been until the playoffs after the semifinal.
The KBO League offers direct tickets to the Korean Series to the best team in the regular season.
The advantage of this is a sweet break for about two weeks.
It is a merit that cannot be ignored compared to the opposing team in the Korean Series which wastes its power in the lower rounds.
For this reason, the probability of winning 1st place in the regular season in the Korean series from 1989 when the single league system was introduced in the KBO league until last year reached 82.8%.
Out of a total of 29 Korean series, 24 times ended with the integrated championship of first place in the regular league.
It is empirically proven that the advantage of being able to reorganize the front row with enough rest is more powerful than the disadvantage of losing the sense of real combat by rest.
That is why it is said that it is difficult to win the Korean Series unless you finish in at least second place.
According to the statistics so far, NC is clearly the best team during the longest Korean series, but Doosan’s case is very unusual for a simple substitution.
Doosan jumped from fifth to third place in the last game of the regular season, and in the semi-finals against the LG Twins, they decided to win after 2 games.
Doosan also advanced to the Korean series by salvaging the players’ physical strength as much as possible after finishing the tiebreaker with kt wiz in Game 4.
Also, Doosan has a brilliant experience winning the fall baseball stage in 2001 and 2015 in third place of the regular season.
The winners who proved a miracle in 2015 have grown up with the Korean series for six years in a row until this year.
Still, it’s hard to treat the accumulated fatigue that players get lightly.
Chris Plexen, announced by Doosan as a starter for Game 5, is already making his fifth appearance in the postseason.
Flexen was highly successful with an ERA of 1.10 with 1 win and 1 save in 3 games from the semi-finals to the playoffs.
He endured the four-day rest rotation and did not choose between pick and save.
Although he is a young pitcher in his 20s, it is a tough ride that is not physically easy.
In fact, in the second leg of the Korean Series, Flexen did a good job with 6 innings and 1 run, but faced almost every inning crisis.
In the first game of the semifinal and the first game of the tie, he struck out 11 each, but in the second game of the Korean series, he struck out only three.
There are many stares mixed with worries about how long Flexen will last, which climbs onto the mound after resting another four days.
As the number of credible cards in the bullpen gradually declined, bad news emerged of Kim Kang-ryul’s injury.
If pitching power is unfavorable due to repeated short-term battles, it must be overcome by offensive power, but Doosan’s batting line was struggling with three hits in the fourth game.
The longer the series, the more likely Doosan is in the corner.
Therefore, the results of Game 5 are of the utmost importance to Doosan.
/ yunhap news
