▲ Doosan Fernandes at home


The Doosan Bears achieved the feat of advancing into the Korean Series (KS) in professional baseball for the first time in seven consecutive years.



Doosan defeated the Samsung Lions 11-3 by tying 15 hits and 9 four-quarters in the second leg of the 2021 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO postseason playoff (PO, 2 wins out of 3) held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. I did.



Doosan, who won the first game 6-4 the day before, defeated Samsung with two straight wins and went down to the Korean Series for seven years since 2015.



Doosan will compete for supremacy in the Korean Series with a win-win system of 7 against kt wiz, which is ranked first in the regular league.



The first round of KS between the two teams will kick off on the 14th at 2PM at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul.



Doosan defeated the SK Wyverns (currently SSG Landers, 2007-2012) and Samsung (2010-2015), who enjoyed the KS for six consecutive years, and wrote a new history of entering the KS for the first time since the KBO League was launched for seven consecutive years.



In addition, as the fourth-placed team in the history of regular leagues, it is the sixth team to reach the KS after Samsung (1990), Hyundai Unicorns (1996), LG Twins (2002), SK (2003), and Doosan (2013). boasted.



Doosan also set a record to step on the KS stage for the first time as a team that played a wild card match between 4th and 5th places in the regular league since 2015, when it was reorganized into a 10-team system.



Unlike Doosan, who wrote down a brilliant club history, Samsung ended the postseason in six years in vain in just two games.



It was a match that proved just how terrifying the experience was.



The Kiwoom Heroes (wild card playoff) and LG (quasi playoff), who were eliminated first, did not back down after defeating Doosan once in the postseason this year, probably thanks to their experience of baseball in the fall almost every year.



However, Samsung, who encountered fall baseball for the first time in six years, was overwhelmed by Doosan's momentum and blew a golden chance in the air for two consecutive games, failing to use any power and self-destructed.



Since taking the baton of Doosan in 2015, coach Kim Tae-hyeong, who won three KS championships and runner-up three times for six consecutive years since taking the baton at Doosan in 2015, has been the first novice to play autumn baseball for the first time in three consecutive seasons, including Hong Won-ki Kiwoom, Ryu Ji-hyeon LG coach, and Samsung Manager Huh Sam-young. I broke it.



Doosan continued the momentum of the previous day by beating Samsung left-handed starting pitcher Baek Jeong-hyeon in the bottom of the first inning to score two points.




After the one-out, Jose Fernandes took a left-handed hit and Park Geon-woo filled the first and second base with a right-handed hit.



Kim Jae-hwan called Fernandes home with a just-time hit that stretched the side of Samsung shortstop Kim Ji-chan like a bullet, while Park Geon-woo landed at third base.



Soon after, Yang Seok-hwan threw a sacrifice fly from center field that ran away 2-0.



When Samsung missed the two-out full-base chance, which was a ball that hit Kang Min-ho, a hit by Kim Ji-chan, and a walk by Kim Heon-gon after the airlift shift, the opportunity came again to run away to Doosan at the end of the second inning, which overcame the crisis.



Following Kang Seung-ho's right-handed hit, Park Se-hyuk's send bunt made a one-out second base, and Kim Jae-ho hit a single RBI and triple.



It was a single batted ball that fell inside the right field line, but Samsung right fielder Koo Ja-wook could not pick it up with a sliding catch and threw it backwards, resulting in a triple.



Samsung coach Heo Sam-young called Baek Jeong-hyeon and raised Choi Ji-kwang to evolve, but Choi Ji-kwang sent Jung Soo-bin on a walk and then fell down after being hit with a double by Fernandes at one-out first and third base.



As the score went 5-0 in an instant, the weight of victory and defeat shifted sharply toward Doosan.



Samsung only recovered one point with Oh Jae-il's shortstop ground ball in one-out 1st and 3rd base, which continued with Park Hae-min and Koo Ja-wook's consecutive hits in the early 3rd inning.



Doosan's bat exploded nonstop in the third inning.



As leader Kyung-Min Heo went out with a ball that fit his body, Seung-Ho Kang sent Kyung-Min Heo to second base with a bunt.



Park Se-hyeok, who has a good sense of batting, hit a double in the RBI that passed next to Samsung first baseman Oh Jae-il and went to the top.



In the two-out 1st and 2nd bases that continued with Kim Jae-ho's walk, Fernandes threw a timely hit in front of left fielder, widening the gap 7-1.



After Baek Jeong-hyeon collapsed with 4 runs in 1⅓ innings, Taein Won, who appeared as the third pitcher of the team in the 2nd inning, also gave 2 runs in 1⅓ innings, and the Samsung mound completely collapsed.



Doosan added two points in the bottom of the fourth inning with Kang Seung-ho's left double from left field.



Doosan Bullpen's most reliable card, Lee Young-ha, appeared for relief in the 3rd inning and won 3⅔ innings with a scoreless counter throw.



Young-ha Lee won all the matches where Doosan had advanced to the top series, including the second game of the wild card decision on the 2nd and the third game of the semi-play-off on the 7th.



Fernandes, who hit a batting average of 0.556 (5 hits in 9 at-bats) in two PO games, including 4 hits and 3 RBIs in 5 at-bats, received 40 out of 78 votes in the press vote and was selected as the PO MVP.



He is the fourth foreign player in history and the first foreign hitter in 17 years since Mendy Lopez (Samsung) in 2004 to win the honor of PO MVP and receive 3 million won in prize money.



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