Baseball championship series
| 2023 Korean Series |
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| Dates | November 7 – 13 |
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| Venue | Jamsil Baseball Stadium (LG Twins)
Suwon Baseball Stadium (KT Wiz) |
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| MVP | Oh Ji-hwan (LG Twins) |
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| Umpires | Park Gi-taik, Park Geun-yeong, Jeon Il-su, Park Jong-cheol, Lee Min-ho, Kim Byeong-joo, Choi Su-won |
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| Television | KBS (South Korea - Korean)
MBC (South Korea - Korean)
SBS (South Korea - Korean) |
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| TV announcers | Kang Seung-hwa, Kwon Seong-wook, Park Yong-taik, Yoon Hee-sang and Jang Seong-ho (KBS)
Han Myeong-jae, Kim Na-jin, Lee Sang-hoon, Jung Min-cheul, Park Jae-hong and Kim Sun-woo (MBC)
Jeong Woo-yeong, Yoon Seong-ho, Lee Sun-cheol (SBS) |
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The 2023 Korean Series (known as 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL Korean Series for sponsorship reasons) was the championship series of the 2023 KBO League season. The series started on November 7 and ended on November 13.[1]
The LG Twins clinched the best record of the 2023 season and advanced to the Korean Series.[2] Twins won the regular season in 29 years, which is winning first time since 1994 regular season. Also it is first time to advance Korean Series since 2002 post season. This stage will be challenge for the Korean championship title in 29 years of Twins.
KT Wiz, who defeated the NC Dinos 3-2 in the KBO League playoffs[3], begun their regular season at near of bottom of the table, but succeed to rise their standing in June. At last the Wiz sealed the 2nd table in regular season before a week of season ending, and showed wizard's magic that directly advance to play off from bottom.
The LG Twins won the Korean Series 4-1, for their first title in 29 years.
Summary
LG Twins (4) vs. KT Wiz (1)
| Game |
Date |
Score |
Location |
Time |
Attendance
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| 1 |
November 7 |
KT Wiz – 3, LG Twins – 2 |
Jamsil Baseball Stadium |
3:14 |
23,750
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| 2 |
November 8 |
KT Wiz – 4, LG Twins – 5 |
Jamsil Baseball Stadium |
3:07 |
23,750
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| 3 |
November 10 |
LG Twins – 8, KT Wiz – 7 |
Suwon Baseball Stadium |
4:06 |
17,600
|
| 4 |
November 11 |
LG Twins – 15, KT Wiz – 4 |
Suwon Baseball Stadium |
3:46 |
17,600
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| 5 |
November 13 |
KT Wiz – 2, LG Twins – 6 |
Jamsil Baseball Stadium |
2:56 |
23,750
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Matchups
Game 1
Wiz succeed to dominate the first game of the biggest stage. Moon Sang-cheol, the designated hitter of Wiz who flew out into the triple play at 2nd top, hit a 1 RBI double against Twins closer Go Woo-suk. Twins was beaten at their first game of the post season journey with 4 errors and broken closer.
Game 2
November 8, 2023 18:30 KST at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul
| Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E
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| KT Wiz |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
8 |
0
|
| LG Twins |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
5 |
10 |
0
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WP: Ham Deok-ju (1–0) LP: Park Yeong-hyun (0–1) Sv: Go Woo-suk (1)
Home runs:
KT: None
LG: Oh Ji-hwan (Solo, 6th BOT, William Cuevas), Park Dong-won (2-run, 8th BOT, Park Yeong-hyun)
Attendance: 23,750
Umpires: Kim Byeong-ju, Park Jong-cheol, Park Geun-yeong, Lee Min-ho, Chio Su-won, Jeon Il-soo
Boxscore
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Twins tied the series with great bullpen pitchers and dramatic homer by Park Dong-won, transferred catcher from KIA Tigers before the season. Choi Won-tae, Twins's starting pitcher for 2nd leg conceded 4 scores at 1st top, pitching during 1/3 innings. But 6 Twins bullpenners, Lee Jeong-yong, Jeong Woo-yeong, Kim Jin-seong, Yu Yeong-chan and Ham Deok-ju blocked the Wiz batters without any losing scores in 8.2 innings, while batters constantly score at 3rd, 6th and 7th bot.
At the one-position-game, Park Dong-won hit breathtaking turning-table 2-run homer against Wiz closer Park Yeong-hyun in 8th bot. Go Woo-seok closed the game with 2 strike outs at 9th top, and Twins made their first Korean Series victory in 21 year, 7,670 days.
Game 3
November 10, 2023 18:30 KST at Suwon Baseball Stadium
| Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E
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| LG Twins |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
11 |
2
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| KT Wiz |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
7 |
15 |
1
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WP: Go Woo-suk (1–1) LP: Jae Yun Kim (0–1) Sv: Lee Jeong-yong (1)
Home runs:
LG: Austin Dean (1, 3-run, 3th TOP, Wes Benjamin), Park Dong-won (2, 2-run, 6th TOP, Son Dong-hyeon), Oh Ji-hwan (2, 3-run, 9th TOP, Kim Jae-yoon)
KT: Park Byung-ho (1, 2-run, 8th BOT, Go Woo-seok)
Attendance: 17,600
Umpires: Jeon Il-soo, Lee Min-ho, Park Jong-cheol, Chio Su-won, Park Gi-taik, Park Geun-yeong
Boxscore
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One of the most memorable match in Korean Series history. Turning games happened 4 times.
Twins opened the scoring in the top of the third, when Austin Dean hit a three-run home run toward the left side pole to put the Twins leads 3-0. Wiz reversed the game with destroying the Twins bullpen which look like the iron wall at game 2. Kim Min-hyeok's 1-RBI single was followed by right-centre 1 RBI double by Anthony Alford that tie the game. After that, Jo Yong-ho's 1 RBI single took the turning game around to Wiz. Responding to Wiz's attack, Park Dong-won gave a one-run lead to Twins with two-run home run toward left outside of the stadium.
Wiz didn't want to make end of the game with the result, and returned the lead with 1 RBI double by Hwang Jae-gyun and dramatic two-run homer by Park Byeong-ho against Go Woo-suk.
At top of 9th, Kim Jae-yoon was sent to record the final three out counts for Wiz. Hong Chang-gi, the leadoff of Twins, hit the infield single, and after 2 out counts by Park Hae-min and Kim Hyeon-soo, Twins batter 2 and 3, the Wiz closer gave a walk to Austin Dean. The runners on first and second base with 2 out counts was loaded for Oh Ji-hwan, the captain of Twins who allowed crucial error on procedure of Wiz's scoring in bottom of the fifth. The captain shot an incredible 3-run homer that serve a lead 8-7 for Twins.
Go Woo-suk conceded hit-by-pitch to Kim Jun-tae, and single on the left field to Jeong Jun-yeong. With runners on first and second base at one out, pitcher was substituted with Lee Jeong-yong, who sent the runners to next bases with wild pitch as soon as appearing. Bae Jeong-dae got intentional walk, which made to face Kim Sang-su at full base. On the crisis of walk off, Lee Jeong-yong success to induce ground ball in front of pitcher, and the memorable game was ended with 1-2-3 double play.
Twins got series lead 2-1, and left only 2 victories to the Korean Series championship in 29 years with the championship rate of 85%.
Game 4
Game 5
