Samsung’s ranking last year was 7th. It was a pitiful fall to be called a team that fought until the last day for the championship of the regular season immediately before. Hanwha has been in last place for three consecutive years. The rebuilding process was not smooth.

For those two teams, April this season was more important than others. First of all, I had to endure at the beginning of the season and create positive energy by winning. This is because the two teams that are behind the other teams in terms of objective power had to ride the flow to make weapons in this war. But it doesn’t work as intended. As of the 24th, Samsung is 9th with 7 wins and 12 losses (.368), and Hanwha is 10th with 6 wins, 12 losses and 1 draw (.333).

It’s not that the content of the game was very lethargic. I deserved better results than my current grades. In the Pythagorean win rate based on goals scored and conceded, Samsung has 0.390 and Hanwha has 0.392, which is higher than the season win rate. In the end, it means that the power to produce the result is weak. Even though we fight hard until the end of the game, there are often things that can’t get over the last hurdle.

In fact, Samsung reached 10 games where the difference between 1 and 2 was more than half of the total 19 games. Hanwha also had 10 games 안전놀이터out of 19 games by 1-2 points. Samsung stayed with 1 win and 4 losses in the game by 1 point, and Hanwha also had a negative business with 3 wins and 7 losses in the game by 1 or 2 points. There were some games where the lack of finishing was painful.

Oh Seung-hwan, who seemed to always close the back door of the Samsung team, has been under controversy since last year. Oh Seung-hwan, who is now over 40, has been steadily increasing his ERA. After making two blown saves this year, he eventually gave up his finishing position for a while and started to reinforce his position.

Lefty Lee Seung-hyun’s role as an alternative finisher was important, but he also tasted bitterness. He took the mound in the 9th inning against KIA in Gwangju on the 21st with a 4-2 lead, but after causing a crisis with 1st and 2nd base safely, Choi Hyung-woo hit a 3-run homer to end the game and collapsed.

It is the same with Hanwha, where finishing positions are dizzying. Jang Si-hwan went down to the 2nd group due to sluggishness and poor physical condition. Lefty Kim Bum-soo, who took the temporary finishing position, has three blown saves this season. When he was a setup man in the bullpen, he threw amazingly with an ERA of 0, but he has not been able to show that much stability since he went to the closer position.

Samsung’s 9th inning hit rate reached 0.339, and its OPS (on-base percentage + slugging percentage) reached 1.013. This is the worst number in the league. Hanwha also had a 0.344 batting average and 0.937 OPS in the 9th inning, so the 9th inning was loose. Considering that the league average 9th OPS is 0.753, the situation of the two teams can be postponed.

It is difficult to see it as a team that can win more than 5 consecutive wins in terms of objective power. Weakness in power must be acknowledged to some extent. There is also a common point that there are not a few injured people. If so, you need to make sure you win the game and don’t prolong the losing streak. To do so, he needs a clear set-up man and finisher to put an end to the flow of victories that his teammates have painstakingly accumulated. It is a typical pattern of a team that does not have such a formula. Samsung and Hanwha’s season may depend on this.