KT, I'm sorry! We're coming! NC Miraculous 9th consecutive win, 5th place in the last game...advance into WC

Oct 04, 2025

KT, I'm sorry! We're coming! NC Miraculous 9th consecutive win, 5th place in the last game...advance into WC
Kim Hwi-jip (center) is happy after hitting a home run. Photo =NC Dinos



NC Dinos confirmed the 5th place in the final ranking with Riley Thompson's hard throw. Advance to the wild-card game.

NC won the final regular season game against SSG Landers 7-1 at Changwon NC Park on the 4th.

NC, which won nine consecutive games at the end of the regular season, confirmed its fifth place with 71 wins, 6 draws and 67 losses. He beat sixth-ranked KT to win a ticket to the wild card game in the 144th game.




As a result, NC will play a wild card match against the Samsung Lions, ranked fourth in the regular season, at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 6th. NC can advance to the semi-playoff only if it wins two consecutive games, and Samsung can advance to the semifinals only with one win.

Everyone's attention was on Changwon. The rankings of LG in 1st place to Samsung in 4th place have already been confirmed. NC and KT fought a final battle for the last remaining fifth place. On the 3rd, a day earlier, KT drew 6-6 after an extended blood fight with Hanwha, creating a burdensome situation in which NC had to win or at least draw the final match unconditionally. NC overcame the burden and celebrated its advance to the semifinals with a victory, with 17,983 full spectators.

KT, I'm sorry! We're coming! NC Miraculous 9th consecutive win, 5th place in the last game...advance into WC
박건우. Photo =NC Dinos
The attack was active from the first inning. In the bottom of the first inning, runners piled up with first batter Kim Joo-won's hit, second base stolen base, and Choi Won-joon's walk, and Park Gun-woo's timely RBI took the lead first with no outs and runners on the first and second bases. As the score came out quickly from the first inning, NC's atmosphere toward the last win heated up.




Although he failed to score an additional point, he shook SSG starter Kim Kwang-hyun with Kim Hwi-jip's home run in the bottom of the second inning. Lee Woo-sung's hit and Seo Ho-chul's grounder to the third base led to a throwing error by the opponent's third baseman Kim Sung-hyun, which led to a three-run homer over the left fence. Kim Hui-jip, the eighth batter, hit Kim Kwang-hyun's 142km first pitch fastball. NC ran away 4-0 in an instant.

KT, I'm sorry! We're coming! NC Miraculous 9th consecutive win, 5th place in the last game...advance into WC
맷 데이비슨. Photo =NC Dinos
It wasn't the end here. Following Davison's double in the bottom of the third inning, Kwon Hee-dong's sacrifice bunt made it to third base with one out. Lee Woo-sung called in third baseman Davison with a timely double to left field. In the bottom of the fifth inning, NC ran away 7-0 as Lee Woo-sung hit an RBI double with another one out and second base chance.

Even SSG, which had been quiet, did not step down easily. In the top of the sixth inning, Ahn Sang-hyun, the leadoff hitter, scored his team's first run when he hit a solo home run to the left. Since then, the quiet hitting of both teams has progressed rapidly. After Riley went down, NC's Son Joo-hwan, Bae Jae-hwan, and Lim Ji-min took the mound and confirmed the team's advance to the semifinals without additional runs.




KT, I'm sorry! We're coming! NC Miraculous 9th consecutive win, 5th place in the last game...advance into WC
라일리 톰슨. Photo =NC Dinos
On this day, NC's starting pitcher Riley pitched five hits (one home run), seven strikeouts, one walk, and one run in five ⅓ innings, winning 17 games this season. In his last appearance in the regular season, he dramatically won the title of the most prolific winner with Ponce (Hanwha). He is the only individual title winner among NC pitchers.

He also set a new record for the most strikeouts in a single season. Riley, who added seven strikeouts on the day beyond Eric Peddy's 209 strikeouts in 2023, made Dinos history with 216 strikeouts.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.