'Upset Challenge' KT Ko Young-pyo return match
The LG Twins and KT Wiz will face off in Game 5 of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League Korean Series at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the 13th. Earlier, LG won 15-4 in Game 4 of the Korean Series at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 11th. As a result, LG won Game 2 5-4 and won Game 3 8-7 and won 3 consecutive Korean Series games until this day, capturing a 94% probability of winning. LG will put Casey Kelly as the starting pitcher for Game 5, and KT will put forward Ko Young-pyo as the starting pitcher. Earlier, the two players faced off as starters in the first round of the Korean Series on the 7th. LG's big win in Game 4, how it was made LG scored the first goal in the fourth. He hit hard from the first inning. After leader Hong Chang-ki struck out, Park Hae-min got on base with a hit to the right. Kim Hyun-soo entered the batter's box here. Kim Hyun-soo watched Um Sang-baek's first changeup, pulled the same changeup on the second pitch and hit a 115m two-run shot over the superior fence. Then, in the fifth inning, he showed his firepower once again. After Moon Sung-joo walked on base, Shin Min-jae made a sacrifice bunt to the changed pitcher Kim Jae-yoon, making it one out and second base. Hong Chang-ki did it here. Hong Chang-ki hit Kim Jae-yoon's two-ball fork and recorded a right-handed hit. Since then, second base runner Moon Sung-joo has settled on home-in and Hong Chang-ki has settled on second base in a home relay situation. However, Park Hae-min and Kim Hyun-soo failed to score additional points as they stepped down from the fly ball. LG's offense did not stop in the sixth inning. After one out, Oh Ji-hwan walked with three balls and two strikes and got on base. Moon Bo-kyung, who entered the batter's box, then hit a home run. Moon Bo-kyung pushed KT Kim Jae-yoon's first-pitch fastball with one out and one on first base, which led to a 110m two-run home run over the left wall fence, leading 5-0. KT also scored 10,000 runs right away. After two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, Kim Sang-soo got on base with a left-handed double. Hwang Jae-kyun then pulled Kim Yun-sik's first-pitch changeup and hit a left-handed hit. In the meantime, second baseman Kim Sang-soo finally scored as he entered the home. Then, in the seventh inning, the Mega Twins' attack continued. Leadoff Hong Chang-ki hit KT Kim Young-hyun's first pitch to get on base with a heavy hit. However, Hong Chang-ki, who tried to steal a base during Park Hae-min's at-bat, was out at second base. Park Hae-min got on base with a double to the left, with no runners on the first base. Kim Hyun-soo's timely hit, which revived, added a 6-1 lead. Austin's heavy hit was added after pinch runner Choi Seung-min settled on second base. And Oh Ji-hwan, the hero of the victory the previous day, entered the batter's box. Oh Ji-hwan kicked up a low change-up of KT's changed pitcher Joo Kwon, which led to a 110m-long three-run over the right fence drawing a large parabola. As a result, Oh Ji-hwan marked his 2G consecutive home run following a dramatic three-run home run in the ninth inning of Game 3 the previous day. In addition, he has already shot three home runs in the KS. Even after that, LG's march did not stop. After the follow-up Moon Bo-kyung got on base with a double, Park Dong-won sent a deep hit to the third baseman to get on base with an infield hit. Even Moon Sung-joo hit a timely triple that brought in all runners after a three-ball, two-strike, and 10 pitches. And when Shin Min-jae grounded out to shortstop, third baseman Moon Sung-joo homered, LG completed a big inning with seven points in the seventh inning alone. In the eighth inning, LG also got on base with a heavy hit after Kim Bum-seok, who played as a pinch hitter after one out, was excluded from the changed pitcher and a full count of three balls and two strikes. After even Kim Min-sung walked on base, Oh Ji-hwan's timely hit to the right field erupted. Moon Bo-kyung's sacrifice fly and Heo Do-hwan's timely double to the left continued to lead 15-1. At the end of the eighth inning, KT, which already had a big score gap, did not give up. After leadoff Song Min-seop got on base with a hit, even Shin Bon-si got on base with a hit in front of right field. Even Lee Ho-yeon went to first base with a walk, creating a full base chance with no outs. Lee Sang-ho then struck out and recovered one point as Kang Hyun-woo got on base with a hit ball. KT's attack continued. KT scored two runs only with a walk without a hit by getting on base with a walk even Moon Sang-chul. However, there were no additional points as follow-up Jung Joon-young and Oh Yoon-seok stepped down as errors. And in the bottom of the last ninth inning, LG put Choi Won-tae on the mound, who was sluggish in the 0.1 inning of Game 2. However, Choi Won-tae's pitching was not easy. He walked Cho Yong-ho and Song Min-seop in a row. Shin Bon-ki then hit a ground ball to shortstop, first baseman Song Min-seop was out on second base, and batter Shin Bon-ki got on base on first base. 1 out, 1st and 3rd base crisis. Choi Won-tae lost a point by giving up a sacrifice fly to left fielder Lee Ho-yeon. However, he then blocked Kim Jun-tae and secured a 15-4 victory.