The final piece of the puzzle in the Doosan Bears’ quest for first place in baseball. It’s a rebound for the foreign ace who dominated the KBO with 20 wins in the past.
The Doosan Bears are set to face the Kia Tigers of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League for the 10th time this season on Sunday at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul. It is the first game of a three-game weekend series.
After dropping all three games of their rivalry series against the LG Twins last weekend, Doosan rebounded with a series sweep of the Changwon NC Dinos in midweek. Despite having manager Lee Seung-yeop ejected for the second straight day, Doosan won both Game 4 and 5 in extra innings and swept Game 6 to move into third place, 1.5 games behind second-place LG. They are also just two games behind leader KIA.
Doosan will look to make it four wins in a row and sweep the three-game series when they host KIA on Sunday, and they’ll turn to ace Raul Alcantara. It will be Alcantara’s eighth start of the season.
Alcantara, who re-signed for a total of $1.5 million (approximately 2 billion won) for the 2024 season, 카지노사이트 was placed on the disabled list after feeling discomfort in his right elbow on April 21 against the Jamsil Kiwoom Heroes. He was diagnosed with a lateral elbow sprain by three hospitals in Korea, but he didn’t trust them, so he traveled to the United States for a second opinion. The U.S. doctors diagnosed the same thing as the Korean doctors, a sprain, and Alcantara rejoined the team on May 10 and had about two more weeks to recover.
Alcantara made his comeback game on April 26 against the Gwangju Kia Tigers.
It was his first start in about a month since April 21 against the Jamsil Kiwoom Heroes, but the time away proved to be too much, as he was unable to withstand the firepower of the KIA bats, giving up five runs on four hits (three home runs) and four walks (13.50 ERA) in 3 1/3 innings to suffer his second loss of the season. The ace’s collapse sent Doosan into a two-game losing streak at the time and a three-game losing streak, including a loss to the KT Wiz in Jamsil on April 28.
His second start after the injury was also uncharacteristic of Ace. Against rival LG, he allowed three runs on four hits (one home run) and two walks in five innings, striking out three and walking three, and leaving the mound with 89 pitches. Despite the ace, 파워볼실시간 Doosan lost 5-8, ending the week with the shocking result of a three-game sweep of their rivals.
Alcantara is 1-2 with a 3.63 ERA in seven games, and hasn’t won since April 10 against the Hanwha Eagles in Jamsil, South Korea, due to a combination of injuries and inconsistency. Doosan has been fighting for the lead in the absence of their ace with young pitchers like Choi Joon-ho, Kim Yoo-sung, and Kim Min-kyu, but they will need Alcantara to lead the way if they want to capture the top spot on the leaderboard. As his recent record shows, Alcantara’s struggles have affected the entire series.
However, Alcantara has struggled against KIA this year, going 2-2 with a 7.27 ERA in two games.
He took the loss on March 29 in Jamsil, giving up three runs (two earned) in 5⅓ innings, and on May 26 in Gwangju, giving up five runs in 3⅓ innings.
Meanwhile, the opposing team, KIA, will also start ace James Nail. Nail’s season record is 7-1 with a 1.48 ERA in 12 games, leading the league in ERA, wins, WHIP (1.04), batting average (.225), and strikeouts (75). In his most recent start, against the KT Wiz in Gwangju on April 1, he pitched seven innings and allowed one run (unearned).
Nail has been strong against Doosan, going 2-0 with a 3.27 ERA in two games. On May 15, he allowed three runs in five innings in Gwangju, 실시간 바카라사이트 and on May 26, he picked up a one-run win in six innings again in Gwangju.