{"id":14362,"date":"2026-11-07T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:28:03","slug":"young-pitchers-help-put-lions-on-brink-of-korean-series-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=14362","title":{"rendered":"Young pitchers help put Lions on brink of Korean Series title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samsung Lions starter Jang Chan-hee pitches against the KT Wiz during Game 4 of the Korean Series at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in the southeastern city of Daegu, Saturday. Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DAEGU \u2014 At the tender age of 19, Samsung Lions starter Jang Chan-hee helped put his team on the verge of their first Korean Series title in a dozen years Saturday with a better-than-expected performance.<\/p>\n

Jang held the KT Wiz to a run on two hits in four rock solid innings, as the Lions prevailed 10-5 in Game 4 of the Korean Series at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in the southeastern city of Daegu.<\/p>\n

The Lions lead the best-of-seven series 3-1, and can clinch the championship in Game 5 scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in Daegu.<\/p>\n

At 19 years, one month and two days old, became the second youngest pitcher to start a Korean Series game.<\/p>\n

Before the game, Lions manager Park Jin-man said he hoped Jang would pitch with the level of energy and fearlessness that he had shown during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Jang had a rocky first inning, though, as he surrendered a solo home run to Jang Jin-hyuk on just his ninth pitch of the game. He walked the next batter but escaped the inning with no further damage.<\/p>\n

Jang’s teammates then staked him to a 6-1 lead, as they batted around and roughed up starter Logan Allen to the tune of four hits and three walks.<\/p>\n

After watching his lineup put up a crooked number on the board, Jang found his groove on the mound.<\/p>\n

He got three quick outs in the second inning and also went three-up, three-down in the third. With one out in the fourth, Jang walked Sam Hilliard and gave up a single to Kim Hyun-soo, but got the next two outs on an infield pop fly and a routine flyout to center.<\/p>\n

Though Jang had only thrown 63 pitches at that point, the Lions decided to reach into the bullpen to begin the fifth.<\/p>\n

That move nearly cost the Lions. They ended up needing three pitchers to get through that frame, as the Wiz scored three times without even a hit.<\/p>\n

Satoshi Miyamori loaded the bases with a single and two walks. Bae Chan-seung came out but gave up a run on a groundout. He then walked three straight batters, with the latter two free passes pushing in two runs for the Wiz to make it a 7-4 game.<\/p>\n

That is when Lee Jae-hee was summoned to clean up the mess. Lee got the job done by striking out Kim Sang-su and retiring Heo Kyoung-min on an infield pop fly \u2014 after offering them seven straight four-seam fastballs.<\/p>\n

Lee, 25, then worked two perfect innings while recording three strikeouts, leaning on his fastball-slider combination to keep the Wiz batters at bay.<\/p>\n

The game could have spun out of control without Lee’s shutdown work out of the bullpen. His effort gave the Lions lineup a chance to pull ahead, with Park Seung-kyu delivering a two-run double in the bottom fifth and Koo Ja-wook making it a 10-4 game with a run-scoring double in the bottom seventh.<\/p>\n

Kim Tae-hoon and Lee Seung-min covered the eighth and the ninth inning for the win but Lee Jae-hee was clearly the star of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

He threw 19 fastballs, nine sliders and five forkballs, and 25 of his 33 pitches were strikes.<\/p>\n

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