KT Baseball Makes History: Dramatic Comeback Secures 5th Place and Postseason Bid Against Doosan

In the 5th place professional baseball game held for the first time in history, KT advanced to the fall basketball season by finishing in 5th place thanks to Rojas’ return home 3 – run. Fall basketball begins in earnest today (2nd) with the wild card game between 4th place Doosan and 5th place KT.

This is reporter Yoo Byung-min.

KT finished the regular season in a tie for 5th place with SSG and will play fifth place for the first time in history to advance to the postseason.

KT took the lead from the start with one shot.

Rojas hit a fastball down the middle from starter SSG Elias in the first inning and hit a solo home run.

However, although the batting line was blocked by Elias’ comeback pitch, starting pitcher Eom Sang-baek gave up an RBI and a timely hit to Jeong Jun-jae in the 3rd inning, allowing the score to be tied 1-1, and in the 5th. inning, pitcher So Hyun-jun, who was replaced, hit Choi Jeong with a timely hit.

In the 8th inning, Go Young-pyo even dropped a solo shot to Choi Jeong, making it 3-1.

When the shadow of elimination came, Rojas stepped up again to solve the problem.

In the bottom of the 8th inning, with no outs on first and third base, he hit reliever Gwang-Hyun Kim and led off with a 3-run home run to left. .

KT, who took the lead, won 4-3 with closer Park Young-hyun pitching a shutout in the 9th inning and took 5th place.

KT, who punched the final ticket to fall basketball with a dramatic comeback win, will play a wild card game today against Doosan, who is ranked 4th in the regular league.

Lotte Reyes added two hits in the final game of the season against NC, setting a new record for most hits in a season with 202 hits, and getting the final win.

(video editing: Lee Jeong-taek)