the opposite park factor.
Samsung's home stadium, Daegu Lions Park, and LG's home stadium, Jamsil Baseball Stadium, are poles apart.
While Rafak is an extreme batter-friendly stadium, Jamsil is an extreme pitcher-friendly stadium.
As many as 216 home runs have been hit in Lapak this season. At Jamsil Stadium, which is shared by LG Doosan, there were only 220 home runs. It is almost double the gap.
The third round of the playoffs, which took place on Thursday after moving from Rafak to Jamsil, proved to be pitcher-friendly.
Samsung's batters, who had eight home runs in total in the first and second games, failed to score a single homer. As the home run hitters remained silent, the team's scoring routes were also blocked. Samsung's batters, who scored a total of 20 points each with 10 points in the first and second games, failed to score a single point on the day.
It did make me cry.
In the second inning, Diaz hit a huge foul home run off Lim Chan-gyu's change-up, showing off that his strength with three home runs in two games was no accident. However, the result was a grounder to the pitcher. In the fourth inning when the score was 0-0, Diaz pulled Lim Chan-gyu's fastball and hit another foul home run that passed by the pole. This time, he even went as far as to read the video at Samsung's request, but no home run was decided.
Samsung manager Park Jin-man said after the game, "I was more disappointed with the foul home run next to the Diaz pole than Yoon Jung-bin's ball in front of the fence."
Disappointed by his two foul homers, Diaz had no hit in four times at bat. When his team was losing 0-1 at the bottom of the eighth inning, he grounded out to shortstop due to Hernandez's fastball.
There was another scene that made Samsung cry.
It was a tiebreaking home run hit by Yoon Jeong-bin, who started as the third right fielder.
Samsung's offense started at the top of the sixth inning when the team was losing 0-1. When Kim Heon-gon, the leader of the team, stepped down with a fly ball, the LG bench showed a winning move. He picked Hernandez's card.
Yoon calmly picked out the ball, made 2B1S, and scooped up a fastball in the middle of 149km. The ball flew high amid loud cheers from Samsung fans filling the third base side. Right fielder Hong Chang-ki caught the ball falling against the fence. The moment the third base side shouted to move to the first base. The Samsung bench was full of bullets.
When asked if he could have moved on if it was Rafak, Hernandez nodded with no hesitation and said, "I would have moved on," smiling after the match. He said it as if he were joking, but it was a meaningful joke.
LG's 1-0 victory in the fifth inning, keeping the first point earned by LG Hong Chang-ki's sacrifice fly. 안전놀이터
It was the result of realizing how strong the home run suppression factor at Jamsil Stadium was. It was the starting point for LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop's home fight that proved his confidence that he could counterattack by saying, "If I return to Jamsil, I will be able to counterattack."