It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of professional baseball SSG Landers lies with native ace Kim Kwang-hyun and foreign pitcher Drew Anderson. He will take the lead in the mound in important games where his advance to autumn baseball is at stake.안전놀이터
With the regular season nearing its end, the fifth place with tickets for the last train of the postseason has yet to be decided. KT Wiz is currently in fifth place, while sixth-ranked SSG is trailing fifth-ranked KT by a gap of 0.5 games. As SSG has played one less game than KT, the competition for fifth place remains hazy.
SSG has two more games to go during the regular season, while KT has one more. As KT will play against the Kiwoom Heroes, the lowest ranking team in the league, on Friday, SSG should play with the mindset that it will win both games. If the two teams finish the season jointly at the fifth place, a tiebreaker will be held to determine the teams that advance to the post season by a single loss in accordance with the KBO League rules.
SSG will have an away game against the seventh-ranked Hanwha Eagles on Sunday. To SSG, Hanwha is challenging. Hanwha, which has shown strong determination to win despite failing to advance to the post season, has won both of its recent two matches, and has an advantage over SSG and its opponents by posting 10 wins and five losses. Moreover, it is committed to achieving a successful conclusion at home.
SSG, which needs to win, will deploy Kim Kwang-hyun in the match against Hanwha. Kim will take the mound after a five-day break, and posted 11 wins, 10 losses and an ERA of 4.99 in 30 games this season.
SSG is pinning its hope on Kim Kwang-hyun, who has been on a high trajectory recently. In September, he played 3-1 with a 3.00 ERA in four games, and in two games against Hanwha this season, he posted a good record of 3.27 ERA.
On the 30th, the final game of the season, he faces Kiwoom at home. Drew Anderson is likely to start in rotation. Another foreign pitcher, Roenis Elias, played against the NC Dinos on the 26th, and left-hander Oh Won-seok is out of the lineup due to shoulder pain.
Anderson has played in 23 games this season, recording 10 wins, 3 losses and a 4.07 ERA. He has shown poor pace, with a 7.00 ERA in September, but he has shown strong performance with three wins and a 2.21 ERA in four games with Kiwoom this year.
SSG continued its hopes of reaching the postseason for the third consecutive year with a frightening background of winning eight of its last 10 games. If Kim Kwang-hyun and Anderson play their part in the remaining games, SSG may have the best results.