Channel A’s ‘Baseball Queen 2’ Black Queens lost their sixth game against NineBigs.
The score was 5대9, but their cumulative season record is 4 wins and 2 losses, keeping their winning percentage above 6할.
The program’s condition—“the team will be disbanded if it fails to achieve a 6할 winning percentage”—makes it difficult to view this loss as merely the result of a single game.
3-Line Summary
1. The Black Queens lost to NineBigs 5대9.
2. Their record is 4 wins and 2 losses, with a winning percentage of 0.667.
3. Their record after six games is above the benchmark.
4 Wins and 2 Losses Is a Record Higher Than 6할
In Episode 10 of ‘Baseball Queen 2,’ broadcast on September 10, the Black Queens lost 5대9 to NineBigs, a women’s baseball powerhouse. The loss gave them their second consecutive defeat of the season, but their cumulative record was 4 wins and 2 losses.
The winning percentage for 4 wins and 2 losses is 0.667. This is higher than the program’s stated benchmark of 6할, or 0.600. Therefore, considering only the condition mentioned on the broadcast—“the team will be disbanded if it fails to achieve a 6할 winning percentage”—the record after six games is not below the benchmark.
This point makes it inappropriate to treat “two consecutive losses” and “the risk of team disbandment” as meaning the same thing. A losing streak reflects the flow of the games, while whether the team will be disbanded is linked to the separate benchmark of a 6할 season winning percentage. Acting manager Lee Dae-hyung’s warning against additional losses and his order to train revealed the team’s atmosphere and the weight of its goal on the program; it was not an announcement that the team’s disbandment had been confirmed.
The results of the Black Queens’ remaining games are important, but it is not possible to determine whether they have achieved their season goal based solely on the 5대9 loss. What was confirmed on the standings at that time was an interim record of 4 wins and 2 losses and 0.667.
The Gap Between Park Min-seo’s 7 Consecutive Strikeouts and 5대9
In the game against NineBigs, the Black Queens brought Park Min-seo to the mound while trailing 4대5 through the top of the 4th inning. Park Min-seo allowed additional runs as walks, a 2-RBI double, and a wild pitch followed, widening the score to 4대9.
However, Park Min-seo struck out three consecutive batters in each of the 5th and 6th innings. According to the broadcast, she recorded 7 consecutive strikeouts. The pitcher’s rebound did not immediately reverse the game’s result, but it is clear that she created room for a comeback by closing out the innings even after allowing a large number of runs.
The Black Queens recovered one run in the bottom of the 4th after Kim Seong-yeon’s walk and Park Ha-yan’s hit, followed by Joo Su-jin’s hit. However, they failed to score additional runs against NineBigs pitcher Yoon Yeo-bin, and the game ended 5대9. The key point in this game is not the strikeout record itself, but that the pitcher’s recovery and the lineup’s subsequent run production were separate issues.
Goyang Special City Is the Successor to Last Year’s Opponent
After the game against NineBigs, the Black Queens’ seventh opponent was introduced as Goyang Special City. Manager Choo Shin-soo explained that this team was the successor to Busters, the team that handed the Black Queens a 12대25 loss last season.
Goyang Special City is known as a team formed through the integration of Busters and Wonder Rose. The opposing team’s batting average presented on the broadcast was 4할 7리. The Black Queens are once again facing the transformed team of an opponent that inflicted a heavy defeat on them last year.
Ayaka and Jang Su-young were listed as the “1+1 starting pitchers,” while Park Min-seo was assigned as catcher. Shin So-jeong, who had stepped away from the starting catcher position because of an injury, moved to third base. The 10th episode revealed the scene in which the game was tied 2대2 through the bottom of the 2nd inning, and the result is scheduled to be covered in Episode 11, which will air on September 17.
The important number in this matchup is 4 wins and 2 losses, rather than the phrase “two consecutive losses.” The Black Queens faced the successor to the opponent that handed them last year’s defeat while still above the season’s target line. Until the result is revealed, there is no basis for prematurely declaring the outcome of the game against Goyang Special City.
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