Eagles turn to ace Ponce trying to climb out of Korean Series hole

Having dropped the first two games of the Korean Series against the LG Twins, the Hanwha Eagles will start their ace Cody Ponce in Game 3 at home on Wednesday. The Twins will counter with homegrown left-hander Son Ju-young as they try to take a stranglehold of the best-of-seven Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) championship series. The teams announced their starting pitchers Tuesday morning, with Game 3 set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon. The Twins won both of their games at home, Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, opening the series with an 8-2 victory on Sunday and following it up with a 13-5 beatdown on Monday. Only twice out of 21 times has a team rallied from a 2-0 hole to win the Korean Series. The Eagles will try to avoid going down 3-0, a deficit that no team has overcome in 12 previous tries. Ponce was not available for either of the first two games of this series because he had pitched the deciding Game 5 of the previous round against the Samsung Lions last Friday. He will go on four days' rest after throwing 82 pitches thatWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times