Chasing the Triple Crown de facto queue

NC Dinos' foreign ace Eric Peddie, 30, will try to kill two birds with one stone in his final start of the regular season.

Pedi will take the mound against the Kia Tigers on April 16 at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field.

Heavy on the shoulders. NC is currently fighting tooth and nail for third place.

With only two days left until the end of the regular season, the third through fifth spots are still up for grabs. Until the 14th, SSG Landers, NC, and Doosan Bears were tied for third place with a winning percentage of 0.532.

NC took sole possession of third place with a 5-3 win against the Samsung Lions on the 15th. While the Bears are in a strong position to qualify for the semi-finals, there is still room for the standings to change.

With SSG and Doosan facing off against each other on the 16th and 17th, NC needs to take both games of their two-game series against KIA to secure third place.

If the standings had been finalized earlier, they would have saved their ace for fall baseball, but with a three-way tie for third place, NC was desperate for a win.

If Pedi pitches well, the team will be able to surpass the record along with Soosung in third place.

With his 20th win of the season against the Hanwha Eagles on the 10th, he increased his season strikeout total to 204. It was the first time in 37 years since Sun Dong-yeol of the 1986 Hattae Tigers (24 wins, 214 strikeouts) that a player reached 20 wins and 200 strikeouts in a single season. It's the fifth time in KBO history.

He's practically clinched the Triple Crown.

In the wins category, he has a five-game lead over second-place Wes Benjamin (KT Wiz - 15 wins), who has already finished the season.

He's also clinched the strikeout title. Second-place Ahn Woo-jin (Kiwoom Heroes - 164) and third-place Raul Alcantara (Doosan - 159), whose season was cut short by elbow surgery, are out of reach.

What remains is the ERA, 카지노사이트랭크 where Pedi leads with a 2.06, followed by the out-of-season Ahn Woo-jin at 2.39. David Buchanan (Samsung) is third at 2.54.

The Triple Crown, which requires winning the wins, ERA, and strikeout titles at the same time, has only been accomplished by three players in the KBO's 41-year history.

Sun Dong-yeol did it four times from 1986, 1989-1991, and Ryu Hyun-jin (then with the Hanwha Eagles) accomplished it in 2006, his rookie season. The last to accomplish the feat was Kia's Yoon Seok-min in 2011.

In his final start, he'll be aiming for a one-run ERA. With 174⅔ innings pitched and 40 earned runs to date, Pedi can lower his ERA to 1.99 with six shutout innings.

A 1.82 ERA in a start hasn't been seen since Hyun-jin Ryu in 2010. The last pitcher to win 20 games and have a 1:1 ERA in the same season was Kim Hyun-wook of the 1997 Twins Raiders.

Sun Dong-yeol is the only other player to win the Triple Crown and have a 1.00 ERA. He finished all three seasons with a one-run ERA.