This week's KS is another preview. 3 consecutive wins for LG in March → 2 consecutive wins for Hanwha in April → Sweep again this time? Lim Chan-gyu Koenwin Son Joo-young vs Hwang Jun Seo-Phone Se-WICE face-off
May 26, 2025
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It will be a three-game series at Jamsil again. A match between the first and second places by a 2.5 game difference. Will it be a sweep again this time.
No. 1 LG and No. 2 Hanwha will play three consecutive games during the week in Jamsil from the 27th.
LG ranks first with 33 wins, 1 draw and 18 losses, while Hanwha ranks second with 31 wins and 21 losses, 2.5 games behind.
There is a possibility that the ranking will change depending on the results of the three consecutive games.
This is the third meeting between LG and Hanwha.
The first was the third game since the opening. LG, which won its opening two consecutive games, and Hanwha, which won and lost one game, met in Jamsil. In the first game on March 25, LG Elijah Hernandez and Hanwha Ryu Hyun-jin faced off. Ryu Hyun-jin allowed six scoreless innings, but Hernandez allowed seven scoreless innings, and LG scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, starting with Park Dong-won's grounder to win 5-0.
Lim Chan-kyu and Um Sang-baek met on the 26th, and Lim Chan-kyu won his first shutout since his debut, and LG won again 4-0. On the 27th, LG's fifth starter Song Seung-ki and Hanwha's Moon Dong-ju will face off.Even though Moon Dong-joo returned from injury, he blocked the Hanwha lineup with 61 scoreless innings in five innings, but Song Seung-ki blocked the Hanwha lineup with seven scoreless innings, and LG swept three consecutive games with Kim Hyun-soo's final hit in the bottom of the eighth inning to win 2-1. In the three consecutive games, LG showed a salty pitching that gave only one point to Hanwha.
The atmosphere of the two teams met again a month later was different. LG was in first place, but anxiety was growing as losses piled up. Hanwha rose to second place with eight consecutive wins, took a breather with two consecutive losses, and is on the rise again with two consecutive wins.
It was the opposite this time. Hanwha gave LG consecutive losses with baseball, which protects with the superiority of the mound.
The first game on April 29 is a match between Hanwha Weiss and LG Song Seung-ki. Song Seung-ki allowed three runs in five innings, but Weiss blocked them with two runs in six innings, and Hanwha won by one point as the two teams' bullpen blocked them without losing a point.
Ryu Hyun-jin and Chirinos met on April 30. Chirinos saved one run in six innings, and Kim Hyun-soo's infield hit in the top of the seventh inning gave LG a 2-1 lead, but Hanwha turned the game around with a come-from-behind two-run shot by pinch hitter Hwang Young-mook in the bottom of the seventh inning, and added two more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning with Moon Hyun-bin's solo shot and Heo In-seo's double to win 5-2. The game was canceled due to rain on May 1, with Hanwha winning two consecutive games.
Now the third meeting came back to Jamsil. The game on the 27th is a showdown between LG Lim Chan-kyu and Hanwha Hwang Joon-seo.
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Hwang Jun-seo is a left-handed prospect who was named the No. 1 overall pick last year. He started in place of Um Sang-baek, who went down to the second division, and allowed two hits, two walks and two runs (one earned) in three ⅓⅓ against NC on the 21st. The evaluation was not bad at the time and I got another chance to select.
According to the starting rotation, LG Coenwin and Hanwha Cody Ponce are expected to face off on the 28th, and LG Son Joo-young and Hanwha Weiss on the 29th.
May's results are both good. LG ranks second with 13 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses, while Hanwha ranks third with 12 wins and 8 losses.
But the atmosphere is a bit different. LG overcame the crisis in late April and early May and has been on the rise again recently. He turned the mood around by winning six consecutive games against Samsung and Kiwoom, and since then, he has maintained the top spot with the performance of backup players despite a series of key players such as Jang Hyun-sik, Kim Kang-ryul, Hong Chang-ki and Bae Jae-joon.
Hanwha had a tremendous rise in eight consecutive wins → two consecutive losses → 12 consecutive wins until the match against Kiwoom on May 11 in Daejeon on April 13, but has been in a slump of 4 wins and 8 losses over the next two weeks.
If a team monopolizes this series, the winning team will have an upward curve, but the impact on the losing team will be quite great.
The match between the first and second place teams. Last week, the team recorded one win, one draw, and one loss in the preview Korean Series between the first-place LG and the then-joint second-place Lotte. Who will be ahead of the other team in a week 'Preview Korean Series'.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
