Rain delay strikes Game 4 of Samsung Lions-LG Twins' KBO postseason series

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Rain delay strikes Game 4 of Samsung Lions-LG Twins' KBO postseason series

Published: 18 Oct. 2024, 16:52

The infield dirt at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul is covered with tarp on Friday, before a Korea Baseball Organization postseason game between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins was rained out. [YONHAP]

The fourth game of the Korea Baseball Organization postseason series between the Samsung Lions and the home team LG Twins was postponed by rain in Seoul on Friday.

With the field at Jamsil Baseball Stadium soaked by persistent rain, Game 4 of the teams' best-of-five series was rescheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at the same Seoul venue.

The Lions lead the series 2-1. They won the first two games at home in Daegu, but the Twins responded with a 1-0 win at Jamsil on Thursday night.

The winner of this showdown will advance to the Korean Series against the top-seeded Kia Tigers.

LG Twins players celebrate their 1-0 win over the Samsung Lions in Game 3 of the second round in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Oct. 17, 2024. [YONHAP]

The Twins leaned on just two pitchers to get 27 outs, with starter Im Chan-kyu going 5 1/3 and Elieser Hernandez covering the final 3 2/3 frames.

Twins manager Youm Kyoung-youb said after the victory that he had pushed Hernandez hard because he expected Game 4 to be postponed by a day due to rain — thus allowing the Twins to rest the Venezuelan pitcher for an extra day and possibly use him Saturday.

This is the second game to be rained out in this series. Game 2 at Daegu Samsung Lions Park was moved from Monday to Tuesday due to inclement weather. The Lions stuck to the same scheduled starting pitcher, Won Tae-in, while the Twins switched from Dietrich Enns to Son Ju-young.

The move paid off for the Lions and backfired for the Twins. Won tossed 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball but Son allowed four runs on five hits, including a home run, in 4 1/3 innings, as the Lions cruised to a 10-5 win.

The Lions were scheduled to start Denyi Reyes on Friday, five days after he'd won Game 1 for them at home, and he will take the mound on Saturday instead. He held the Twins to one earned run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings in the series opener, which the Lions won 10-4.

Enns was the scheduled starter for the Twins on Friday and he will still start on Saturday, 10 days after his last postseason outing.

The left-hander started two games in the previous series against the KT Wiz, going 0-1 with a 7.27 ERA, after giving up seven earned runs on 11 hits in 8 2/3 innings.

If the Lions close out the Twins on Saturday, the Korean Series will begin as scheduled on Monday in Gwangju, home of the Tigers.

However, if the Twins win Saturday, the deciding Game 5 of this series will be 6:30 p.m. Monday at Daegu Samsung Lions Park. In that case, the start of the Korean Series will be pushed back to Wednesday.

Yonhap