How will Shine Ponce look on the 15th? → Samsung will succeed if it allows two runs in six innings
Oct 16, 2025
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Ponce will start in the first playoff game against Samsung in the 2025 KBO League postseason at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 17th. Whether or not to target Ponce is the biggest point to watch in the game.
Ponce is an absolute ace with a 94.4% win rate (17-1) during the regular season. Hanwha had 21 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses in 29 games with Ponce. Ponce had a 1.89 ERA and 252 strikeouts in 180 ⅔ innings. He ranks first in the strikeout league with multiple wins (joint first) in ERA.
It's a natural story, but it gets stronger when you take a break.
Ponce allowed seven runs in 17 innings in three games and had a relatively high ERA of 3.71, when he took the mound for rest on the 4th. When he rested for more than six days, he allowed 10 runs (seven earned runs) in 62 ⅔ innings with an ERA of 1.01. Both the inning's ability to digest and control the number of runs have increased.
Ponce last played in the match against Incheon SSG on the 1st. I replenished my stamina for a whopping 15 days.
Ponce has been somewhat exhausted since September. With nine runs and an ERA of 3.52 in 23 innings in 4 games, it was not "impregnable". It is expected that these anxiety factors have been resolved by managing your condition for more than two weeks.
However, this year's Samsung match has few samples. I met him only once. On July 30, he pitched six scoreless innings in Daejeon, leading his team to a 5-0 victory. In this game, Samsung's Kim Sung-yoon hit two hits in three at-bats against Ponce. Yang Do-geun Koo Ja-wook Lee Jae-hyun
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Samsung still needs to pull down Ponce before the 7th inning in order to win the game. Samsung starter Kherson Garavito also has a good pace. In the second game of the semi-playoff against SSG, he achieved a quality start with three runs (two earned) in six innings. If Ponce is replaced even if he is dragged into a close game until the sixth inning, it is worth drawing a sword later.
Hanwha will want Ponce to go above and beyond a quality start. In the recent Major League postseason, the fantastic throws shown by the Los Angeles Dodgers' one-two punch Blake Snell (eight scoreless innings) and Yamamoto Yoshinobu (nine scoreless shutouts) may be what Hanwha wants.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
