It doesn’t even feel like four days let alone four games played during six days, but less than a week ago it looked like Doosan might be headed for a sweep of its mighty winged dragon-like foe.

But it wasn’t to be just as it did all through the KBO regular season the Wyvrens blazed a trail square through its opponent  putting the finishing touches  on a  four-game streak to win the Korean championship  four-games-to-two with a 5-2 victory Monday night. The win gave the franchise, which was established in 2000, its first ever KBO championship.  It was the only team in the league to have never won the title.

For as exciting as the first three games of this series were, the last three progressed in a clockwork fashion. After a Doosan run in the first Jun Gun-woo hit a 2-run HR off   Doosan starter Im Tae-hoon in the 4th inning to give SK a lead it wouldn’t relinquish. The vetran Kim Jae-hyun, who hit 2HRs  with four RBI in the series and  would later be named the series MVP, followed with another HR just  one batter later.

SK starter  Chei Byung-yong,  looked poised  during his  5 2/3 innings allowing just a run on five hits in picking up the win. As usual the SK defense did more than its share. With runners on first and second in the 3rd Chei got  Kim Hyun-soo to hit into a double play that killed a potential rally.  The play seemed to typlify the last four games of  the series for Doosan.    

Im started the game and went 4 2/3 inn surrendering 3 runs and picking up the defeat. The loss was  Im’s second  in as  many games. One has to  think  Doosan manager Kim Kyung-moon’s decision to start the rookie in Game 6  was questionable at best.  It underscores the depth of Doosan’s pitching staff, which after Daniel Rios and Matt Randel, was not Korean-Series-worthy, even in the eyes of Manger Kim.

At the end of the game the SK  players took to the mound, hugged, threw the manager up in the air  and then indulged in one of the worst ongoing, but enduring,  traditions in Korean professional sports–standing before the  crowd while Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is played over the stadium speakers.