KT-Samsung Title Race: The Math Ahead
As of September 21, KT sits at 78-4-47 (.624) and Samsung at 76-3-52 (.594), a 3.5-game gap. Mydaily noted that Samsung would need to go at least 10-3 over its remaining 13 games to win the title. KT, meanwhile, could stay ahead of Samsung in winning percentage by going just 8-7 over its remaining 15 games. To make their late head-to-head meetings decisive, Samsung would first have to cut the gap to within three games.
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Doosan Manager: “I Felt Like I Was Playing”
Fifth-place Doosan (64-60-4) is caught in a tense race, with KIA just above and NC close behind. Manager Kim Won-hyung said he flipped between the NC-LG and KIA-SSG games on the September 15 off day, saying it “really felt like I was playing.” He noted that in September a team usually focuses only on the club above, but now Doosan has to watch both directions. Still, he stressed that “we need to play well ourselves.”
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Asian Games Baseball Team Announces Lineup vs. Taiwan
Manager Ryu Ji-hyun’s South Korea baseball team was set to face Taiwan at 6:30 p.m. on September 21 in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, in its Asian Games Group B opener. Kim Do-young (3B) leads off, followed by Moon Hyun-bin, Noh Si-hwan, Moon Bo-gyeong, Kim Ju-won and others. Starting pitcher Kwak Bin went 11-7 with a 2.26 ERA in 26 KBO games this season. Taiwan named 20-year-old right-hander Lin Yi-wei, who came up through the industrial leagues.
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