Samsung’s home stadium, Daegu Lions Park, and LG’s home stadium, Jamsil Baseball Stadium, are polar opposites.
If Lapak is an extreme hitter-friendly ballpark, Jamsil is an extreme pitcher-friendly ballpark.
This season, 216 home runs were hit at Lapak. At Jamsil, which is shared by LG Doosan, only 220 home runs were hit. It’s almost double the difference.
Game 3 of the playoffs was moved from Lapak to Jamsil on the 17th. The pitcher-friendly effect was evident.
Samsung’s bats, which pounded out eight home runs in Games 1 and 2, failed to hit a single home run. As the home run gun went silent, so did the scoring avenues. After scoring 20 runs in Game 1 and 10 runs in Game 2, the Samsung bats failed to score a single run on this day.
It was a close call.
In the top of the second inning, Diaz showed that his three-homer performance in Game 2 was no fluke when he took a changeup from Im Chan-kyu for a big foul ball. But it was a pitcher’s interference call. In the fourth inning, with the score 0-0, Diaz pulled a fastball from Lim Chan-kyu for another foul ball that cleared the foul pole. This time, 메이저사이트 it went to video review at Samsung’s request, but it was ruled a no-hitter.
Samsung manager Park Jin-man said after the game, “I was more disappointed with Diaz’s foul home run next to the foul pole than Jung-bin Yoon’s hit in front of the fence.”
After the disappointment of the two foul balls, Diaz went 0-for-4 with no hits. He was especially disappointed when he was down 0-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning with runners on first and second and a chance to tie the game, but Hernandez’s fastball was grounded out to shortstop. There was another play that rattled Samseong.
Jung-bin Yoon, who started in the No. 3 spot in right field, hit a tiebreaking home run.
Trailing 0-1 in the top of the sixth inning, Samsung attacked. When Kim Heon-gon walked, the LG bench stepped up to the plate. Hernandez was called up.
Jung-bin Yoon calmly picked up the ball, made a 2B1S, and scooped a 149-kilometer fastball up the middle. The ball soared high in the air as the Samsung fans lined the third-base side. Right fielder Hong Chang-ki leaned back against the fence and caught the ball as it fell. The roar from the third-base side spilled over to first base. The Samsung bench erupted in celebration.
When Hernandez was asked in his postgame interview, “Don’t you think it could have gone over if it was Rafa,” he nodded nonchalantly and said, “It would have gone over,” drawing a laugh. He said it as a joke, but he meant it.
LG’s Hong Chang-ki’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning secured the 1-0 victory.
It was a result that showed how powerful Jamsil Stadium’s home run suppression factor is. It was the start of a comeback that proved the confidence of LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who said, “We can fight back if we go back to the locker room.”