A big game is definitely a first point. Since only good pitchers come out, if the starting pitcher does not collapse suddenly, more games lead to close matches and the shorter the lead, the shorter the lead is to win.

In this year's postseason, the importance of the first point is growing as the first point is linked to victory.

KT Wiz scored the first point in both the two wild-card games and the first round of the semi-playoff and secured the victory by keeping it.스포츠토토

In the first game of the wild card game against the Doosan Bears on Sunday, starting with Jang Sung-woo's finishing hit, he scored four runs in the top of the first inning alone, and although he failed to score an additional run afterwards, he won the game 4-0, thanks to starter William Cuevas' six scoreless innings and perfect defense by the bullpen, which led to Kim Min, Son Dong-hyun and Park Young-hyun. Doosan also deployed Balazovic from the second inning to keep KT's batters scoreless afterwards, but failed to target KT's mound in the end.

The same goes for Game 2. KT's starting pitcher Wes Benjamin showed his best pitching ever, allowing three hits and no runs in seven innings. Then Rojas' double created a chance and Kang Baek-ho's hit scored a valuable first-run and winning run. It was a 1-0 victory, with Ko Young-pyo blocking the eighth inning and Park Young-hyun blocking the ninth inning.

Doosan also blocked starter Choi Seung-yong and Lee Young-ha and Lee Byung-hun and Kim Kang-ryul with just one run in the seventh inning by putting Kim Taek-yeon in, but the batters were eventually blocked by KT's mound again and lost.

In the first round of the semi-PO, LG's batters were also blocked by KT's mound. KT's starting pitcher Ko Young-pyo was unable to throw long balls, so it planned to block the first half well and then lead the team to a must-win group, and this was exactly right.

Moon Sang-chul hit a pre-emptive two-run shot from LG starter Detrick Ens in the top of the second inning to lead 2-0, and immediately started the bullpen in the fifth inning when Ko Young-pyo gave up one run in the bottom of the fourth inning. He dedicated one run due to a disappointing defensive mistake in the bottom of the sixth inning with a 3-1 lead, but the flow came to KT as Kim Min-soo struck out Moon Bo-kyung with a swing and miss and caught Oh Ji-hwan with a ground ball in front of the second base with one out.

After that, Son Dong-hyun, So Hyung-joon, Park Young-hyun, followed and tied the LG lineup scoreless, winning by 3 to 2, 1 point.

LG also failed to overcome the one-run gap in the end, although Eliaser Hernandez took the mound in the eighth inning and threw two innings while closing pitcher Yoo Young-chan was unable to play due to his father's injury.

Game 2 is a showdown between domestic starting pitchers Lim Chan-gyu from LG and Um Sang-baek from KT. Lim Chan-gyu recorded 10-6-1 with a 3.83 ERA, and Um Sang-baek won the most wins among Korean pitchers by posting 13-10 with a 4.88 ERA.

In the end, the key to the second game is how long the starting pitchers can lead without giving up the first run.