The Korean Series between KIA and Samsung, which will determine the strongest professional baseball players this season, will begin tomorrow (21st).
KIA, which ranked first in the regular season, went straight to the Korean Series for the first time in seven years since winning in 2017,
Samsung, ranked second in the regular season
, beat LG 3-1 in the playoffs, and will make the Korean Series stage for the first time in nine years.
The two teams' showdown in the Korean Series is the fourth in 31 years and the fourth in history since 1993, and KIA's predecessor Haitai won all three previous matches.
As a starter in the first game, KIA predicted the No. 1 earned run average nail, and Samsung predicted Won Tae-in, who tied for the first place in multiple wins.Let's hear from the coaches of both teams
[Lee Bum-ho / KIA manager: We worked hard and prepared well thinking that the Samsung Lions would come up. Since the traditional rival teams met in the Korean Series, the biggest stage in 31 years, let's make the Korean Series where we can do our best to compete with each other..]
[Park Jin-man / Samsung manager: (KIA) is a very strong team, but (KIA) has a loophole, so we can dig into it and catch KIA with full energy through the playoffs..]
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