pulled for two days in a row despite Benjamin allowing 3 runs in 5 innings
Wes Benjamin (KT) also failed to win as a starter.
Benjamin pitched well in the second game of the playoffs against NC held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 31st, allowing 4 hits (1 home run), 2 strikeouts, and 3 runs in 5 innings, but was replaced in the top of the 6th inning, trailing 0-3.
It was disappointing to start off with a home run in the first inning. After giving up a heavy hit to No. 2 Park Min-woo with 1 out, he threw a cut fastball on the first pitch against No. 3 Park Geon-woo, but Park Geon-woo pulled it and created a 2-run home run to the left.
Benjamin, who gave up two runs first, allowed leadoff hitter No. 9 Kim Joo-won to hit a big triple to right-center in the top of the third inning, and then first baseman Park Byeong-ho, who was trying to catch No. 1 Son A-seop's grounder, made a catching error and gave up an additional run.
Following a three-way error in the 4th inning, third baseman Jae-gyun Hwang made an error with 2 outs in the 5th inning, but Benjamin, who held on well without allowing any runs, finished the 5th inning with 82 pitches, and KT brought in Son Dong-hyun in the top of the 6th inning to activate the bullpen.
Benjamin pitched relatively well, but KT's batting line was blocked by Eric Peddy the day before, and on this day he was blocked by NC starter Shin Min-hyuk and was tied to 0 points, unable to help the mound.
Moon Sang-cheol, who gave up the only run by hitting a solo home run against Peddie the previous day, also stole Shin Min-hyuk's only hit until the fifth inning with a double to left field with two outs in the bottom of the second inning. Shin Min-hyuk has thrown only 50 throws until the 5th inning, so he is ahead in the starting match in the 2nd game, following Peddy in the 1st game.