It’s that time of year again: monsoon rains wreaking havoc on the Korean baseball schedule.
Inclement weather wiped out four of the five games scheduled for Saturday in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). They were all rescheduled as part of doubleheaders for Sunday. But two of those doubleheaders couldn’t be played at all because of persistent rainfall. The LG Twins and the NC Dinos only played one of their two scheduled games. The Samsung Lions and the KT Wiz managed to play both of their games in Suwon, 30 kilometers south of Seoul.
Not all rainouts are created equal, because they could give struggling teams a much-needed breather or kill whatever momentum surging clubs may have built before Mother Nature’s intervention.
Take, for example, the Kia Tigers. They likely didn’t mind not playing any game over the weekend, after winning only one out of six games prior to that.
On Tuesday, the Tigers blew a 14-1 lead against the Lotte Giants before settling for a 15-15 tie in a marathon of a game that 카지노 lasted five hours and 20 minutes. Two nights later, the Tigers dropped to the same Giants by 11-2.
And then last-place Kiwoom Heroes handed the Tigers a 17-6 loss Friday night, the most runs the Tigers had allowed this year.
They are somehow still in first place at 45-33-2 (wins-losses-ties), holding a 1.5-game lead over the defending champions LG Twins (45-36-2).
The Samsung Lions (44-36-2) trail the Tigers by two games and could overtake the top spot as the two rivals clash for their final three-game series of the first half.
The Lions could have done without rain over the weekend. On Saturday, they were leading the KT Wiz 7-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning when the game was put on hold due to heavy downpours. The game was eventually called off, and because the teams did not complete five innings, it was ruled a “no game.”