The unchanging leading KIA Tigers’ 60% winning rate collapsed again.
KIA lost 4-10 at home against SSG in the “2024 KBO League” at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 29th.
As a result, KIA, which ended its two-game winning streak, recorded 73 wins, 2 draws and 49 losses (0.598) and came down to the 50% winning rate again. 먹튀검증
Of course, there is no problem maintaining the No. 1 ranking. The team has maintained a 4.5-game gap with second-ranked Samsung and failed to achieve the top spot by kneeling down in a showdown with Kia, which had threatened the top spot so far.
However, it does not mean that KIA is also worried.
As the saying goes, “Baseball is about playing pitchers,” pitchers account for a very large portion of baseball. However, Kia is facing a difficult situation in which it is difficult to arrange a rotation due to a series of departures of starting pitchers.
KIA’s two native pitchers, Lee Eui-ri and Yoon Young-chul, left this season due to injuries, and two foreign pitchers, Will Crow and James Nail, were also eliminated.
Eric Lauer, who was brought in to replace Crowe, is falling far short of expectations. Lauer, who had one win and one loss with a 6.08 ERA in three games until his last appearance, suffered his second loss at the match against SSG on Tuesday, allowing eight hits and five runs in five innings, and his ERA rose to 6.87.
It is a fatal departure of the nail who played the ace role. The nail that was hit in the face in the match against NC was taken to the hospital as it was, and he was judged not to be able to play in the remaining games.
However, Kia has signed an annual salary of 45,000 U.S. dollars with Erik Stoute. However, Stoute is not allowed to play in the upcoming postseason. Nevertheless, Kia recruited Stoute to minimize the absence of its starting lineup.
If KIA maintains its top spot in the regular season but fails to recover its winning rate of 60%, it will become the second team with a winning rate of 50% after the 144 game system.
KT Wiz was ranked first for the first time in its history in 2021. At that time, KT was in the lead-off battle until the end of the season, and eventually had an unprecedented first-place match as Samsung and Samsung had the same winning rate. The winner was KT, and KT, which went to the Korean Series as it was, achieved its first championship after reorganizing its ranks.