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KBO League playoffs Suwon on the 30th, said in an interview after the game, "I want to look a little bit like him" When asked that he is comparable to South Korea's "national treasure pitcher" Sun Dong-yeol. It was an answer that contained both respect for the Korean baseball legend and a pledge to continue making efforts.

It can be praised in itself that it resembles an object with a deep footprint in a specific field. In this year's fall baseball, NC's batters are becoming more like LG's batters, the first-come-first-served Korean Series team that led various hitting indicators in the regular season.

The characteristic of LG's lineup in the regular season was that there was little variation in the upper and lower batting order. For example, when Park Hae-min entered the batter's box, it was difficult to guess the batting order by looking at the face on the broadcast screen. Park Hae-min played 74 games as the ninth hitter in the regular season and 33 games as the eighth hitter, and moved to the second at the end of the regular season. He will play as the second hitter in the Korean Series.

LG did not miss the lead in various batting indicators such as No. 1 in team batting average (0.279), No. 1 in team slugging percentage (0.394), No. 1 in team on-base percentage (0.361), and No. 1 in team OPS (0.755), but it was able to maintain this trend because there was no so-called "hole" anywhere in the lineup.

NC has won five consecutive fall baseball games from Game 1 of the wild card decision against Doosan on the 19th to Game 1 of the playoffs against KT on the 30th. What shone above all was the attack. Despite allowing a grand slam to Choi Jung in Game 3 of the semi-playoff against SSG on the 25th and giving a grand slam to Bae Jung-dae in Game 1 of the playoffs, he is surviving with a stronger attack.

He has produced 10.6 hits, averaging 8.2 points per game in five fall baseball games. He is also hitting seven home runs, six of which were poured out of the lower batting order of six or less. Kim Hyung-joon, who usually comes out as No. 8, hit three, and Seo Ho-cheol, Kim Sung-wook and Oh Young-soo each shot one. The home run from the center line was one hit by foreign hitter Jason Martin in the fourth batting order.

Considering this, NC is performing the "fake baseball" of the lower batting order that LG originally expected this season. Ahead of the opening of this season, LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop declared that he would often play games in which Lee Jae-won and Park Dong-won hit home runs at No. 7 and No. 8. Lee Jae-won did not move as much as expected due to season injuries, but Park Dong-won wielded an "MVP-class" bat in the early and mid-season and "fake baseball" was realized. In this year's fall baseball, NC's lower batting order has become a "firebox."

NC's 1st to 3rd batting order, which leads to Son Ah-seop, Park Min-woo, and Park Gun-woo, is a line that all nine other clubs feel uncomfortable. Top hitter Son Ah-seop hit three hits in the first round of the playoffs on the 30th and said, "There was a good hitter behind me, so I was able to give up my greed." Pitchers also tried to play against me, but they made more mistakes," he said.

It is the "hitting line," which means connecting, that the batters who are concerned about the opponent's battery gaze continue to receive help from each other.

LG batters were like that in the regular season, and NC batters are entering the same "path" in this fall baseball season