In a three-game series around Memorial Day that marks the entrance of summer in earnest, the Samsung Lions, who have had a lot of good luck lately, return home to face an opponent they swept in a three-game series on Memorial Day four years ago.
After recording a sweep against Hanwha in a three-game series last weekend, Samsung will host the fourth-ranked NC Dinos, who have been in the best of form of late with three straight wins in a midweek three-game series starting on Memorial Day, June 6.
Currently seventh in the league, Samsung faces the fourth-place team with a 4.5-game lead in the standings, but the last time the teams met in a three-game series around Memorial Day, in 2019, Samsung swept the three-game series from June 3 to Memorial Day.
Samsung is considered the team of the summer, but they’ve also been known in the past to get stronger with the heat.
While they haven’t had much of a 스포츠토토 midsummer surge in recent years, a look at their record in early June since 2019 shows that Samsung has been on a roll.
In 2020, the year after the 2019 sweep against NC, they lost on Memorial Day against SK, but won the next day, followed by a home three-game series against Kiwoom.
In 2021, the team won Game 3 of the Memorial Day series against Kiwoom on the road to take the series lead, then went 4-2 in the next six games at home against KIA and NC, including a four-game winning streak against Doosan in mid-June.
Last year, when Memorial Day fell on a Monday and there were no games, Samsung had more success in its three-game series at this time of year, going 2-1 on the road with a win against Lotte the next day, June 7, 2022.
Following the three-game series against NC, Samsung will also play a three-game weekend series at home against the Lotte Giants in a classic series.