Wiz edge out Twins to open KBO postseason series

The KT Wiz scored early and hung on for dear life to defeat the LG Twins 3-2 on Saturday to begin their South Korean baseball postseason series. Moon Sang-chul smoked a two-run home run in the top of the second inning at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, and No. 9 hitter Sim Woo-jun delivered an RBI double in the fifth for the narrow Game 1 victory in the first round. Before a sellout crowd of 23,750 fans, Wiz starter Ko Young-pyo tossed four innings of one-run ball just two days after making a relief appearance in the wild card round. Moon Sang-chul of the KT Wiz celebrates after hitting a two-run home run against the LG Twins during Game 1 of the first round in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Oct. 5, 2024. (Yonhap) Moon Sang-chul of the KT Wiz celebrates after hitting a two-run home run against the LG Twins during Game 1 of the first round in the Korea Baseball Organization postseason at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Oct. 5, 2024. (Yonhap) Game 2 of this best-of-five series is back at Jamsil at 2 p.m. Sunday. In 15 previous first rounds played in the best-of-five format, the team that won the first game advanced to the next round 11 times. This is a rematch of the 2023 Korean Series, where the Twins beat the Wiz in five games to capture their first championship since 1994. By virtue of finishing third in the regular season, the Twins had a direct ticket to the first round. The Wiz, on the other hand, had to beat the SSG Landers in a fifth-place tiebreaker game on Tuesday just to sneak into the postseason. Then in the wild card round, the Wiz beat the No. 4 seed Doosan Bears in two straight games to reach this stage. They are the first No. 5 seed to make it out of the wild card phase since its introduction in 2015. Source: Yonhap News Agency