SK Rent-A-Car and Hana Card beat Crown Haitai and NH Nonghyup Card side by side to gain two wins, leaving only one win left until the final.
SK Rent-a-Car won 4:2 on Crown Haitai with a set score of 4:2, and Hana Card led the playoffs with 2-1 after a full-set battle with NH Nonghyup Card with a 2:3 victory at the third playoff game of the "Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2023-2024 Postseason" held at "Goyang KINTEX PBA Stadium" in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 22nd.
As a result, SK Rent-A-Car and Hana Card will go to the final stage of the team league for the first time since their inception if they add one more win in Game 4 on the 23rd.
SK Rent-a-Car faced Crown Haitai in a tight race through the second set. In the first set, Eddie Reffens of Belgium and Kang Dong-gung beat Kim Jae-geun and Oh Tae-joon 11:9 (nine innings), but in the second set, Kang Ji-eun and Hida Aurier of Japan turned 1:9 (eight innings) against Baek Min-ju and Lim Jeong-sook.
SK Rent-A-Car won the third and fourth sets, which were the match-winners, with a come-from-behind victory. In the third set, the team faced Kim Jae-geun, who lost 2:11 until the fifth inning, but took advantage of Kim Jae-geun's mistake, who returned to the mound in six innings and three consecutive innings, and scored six consecutive points in seven and eight innings to win the game with a come-from-behind victory of 15:11.
Cho Sang-hwi and Hida, who followed the mixed doubles, were on the verge of defeat with 0:8, with only 10 consecutive innings against Oh Tae-joon and Lim Jung-sook, but they scored two points in the 11th inning and seven high-runs in the 12th inning, making a thrilling turnaround with 9:8.
SK Rent-a-Car, which led with a set score of 3:1, lost 4:11 (5 innings) to David Martinez (Spain) in the fifth set, but Kang Ji-eun defeated Baek Min-ju 9:1 (7 innings) in the sixth set to complete the set score of 4:2.
In the subsequent playoff A match, Hana Card won after a neck-and-neck race in the full set. After Nguyen Quoc Nguyen (Vietnam), Kim Ga-young (Japan), Ayako Sakai (Japan), and Murat Najee Choklu (Turkiye), Hana Card won in the first to third sets, but Q. Nguyen won against Oh Sung-wook 11:6 (six innings) in the seventh set, ending her victory.
Game 4 of the playoffs to be held on Sunday will be played between NH Nonghyup Card (1 win and 2 losses) and Hana Card (2 wins and 1 loss) at 4 p.m., followed by SK Rent-A-Car (2 wins and 1 loss) and Crown Haitai (1 win and 2 losses) at 9:30 p.m. If SK Rent-A-Car and Hana Card win three games, the playoffs will be over and the finals will begin on Monday.
The playoffs will be held in a best-of-five series, and even if one group finishes the playoffs first, the schedule will not be advanced. If both groups end early, the final round will be advanced. The list of players selected for the playoffs will be announced at 12 p.m. on the day of the competition.
Meanwhile, the PBA is holding a "predicting the winning team" event through social media for the postseason. If the winning team is predicted, 10 winners will be drawn and all winners will be given sign balls and commemorative merchandise. If the team predicts all four teams that will win from semi-playoff to playoff A and B finals, the team will be given tickets (two tickets per person) for all next season's team league games.
BY: 사설토토