Old rivals to lock horns in KBO postseason for 1st time in 13 years

The two franchises that clashed in three consecutive championship series in South Korean baseball over a decade ago will renew their rivalry starting this week. The SSG Landers will host the Samsung Lions to open the first round of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason at 2 p.m. Thursday at Incheon SSG Landers Field in Incheon, some 30 kilometers west of Seoul. The Landers earned a bye to this round after finishing third in the regular season, while the Lions, the No. 4 seed, had to knock off the fifth-seeded NC Dinos in the wild card round earlier this week. The Landers own the home-field advantage and will host Games 1, 2 and, if necessary, 5 of this best-of-five series. The Lions will get Game 3 and, if the series goes that far, Game 4 at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in Daegu, about 235 kilometers southeast of the capital. This is the first postseason meeting between these two since the 2012 Korean Series, when the Landers were the SK Wyverns under different ownership. It was their third straight showdown in the Korean Series. The Wyverns swept the Lions in 2010, and then the LWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times