LG and manager Yoon Kyung-yeop are starting to break the jinx.
LG came from behind to win the second game of the best-of-seven Korean Series (best-of-four) against KT Wiz 5-4 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on April 8. After losing the first game 2 to 3 on the 7th, LG evened the series at 1-1.
It was not an easy game for LG. The LG bats, which were strong in the regular season against KT starter William Cuevas, only managed to score two runs in the sixth inning. In addition, Choi Won-tae, who started the game, was pulled after just one inning, so the bullpen was called upon to keep the game close.
Trailing 2-4, LG pulled within one run in the seventh inning when Kim Hyun-soo singled through first baseman Park Byung-ho, before Park Dong-won hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to complete the dramatic comeback.
It was LG's first win in the Korean Series in about 7670 days, since the team defeated the Samsung Lions in Game 5 on November 8, 2002.
At the same time, LG's jinx in fall baseball is slowly being broken.
Since 2020, LG has been a serious contender, but only in the postseason. Since 2020, LG is 4-11 in the postseason. Their only series win in that span came in the 2020 Wild Card Finals, which they won in a single game. They were eliminated in the semifinals in 2020 and 2021, and in the playoffs in 2022, all without beating their opponents.
On this day, however, the team came from behind to secure a meaningful victory, especially in the sixth inning, with a can-do attitude on their 스포츠토토 faces. In a game that was in the balance, the LG players cleared the fog of the 'jinx' that surrounded them.
It was also a meaningful victory for Coach Yeom himself. He finally broke a six-game personal postseason losing streak dating back to Game 3 of the 2016 semi-finals when he was the head coach of the Nexen Heroes (now Kiwoom Heroes). Yeom now has an 8-15 record in the postseason as a head coach.
Despite LG's dramatic come-from-behind victory, everyone remained calm and collected. "The most important thing was not the win, but the confidence it gave the players," Yeom said in an interview after the game.