By Kang Seung-woo
Staff Reporter
The SK Wyverns are one win away from their second straight Korean Series championship after a 4-1 victory over the Doosan Bears Thursday.
In the fourth game of the best-of-seven series at Jamsil Stadium, Choi Jeong hit a game-deciding, run-scoring double to lead the Incheon-based team to a three-game winning stretch.
He also hit a game-winning, two-run homer in Game 3.
Game 5 will be played at Jamsil Stadium at 6 p.m. Friday.
The burning Wyverns got on the scoreboard from the beginning.
Left fielder Park Jae-sang singled and reached third base on a throwing error when stealing second. The next batter Kim Jae-hyun's groundout to second base brought the runner home to put his side ahead.
Bears cleanup hitter Kim Dong-joo led off the second inning with a double to left-center field and advanced to third on Hong Sung-heon's single.
Oh Jae-won grounded out into a double player to tie the game 1-1.
In the fourth, Choi pounded a go-ahead, RBI double to make it 2-1. The third baseman added another double later that night.
Another throwing error cost the Bears in the seventh. With runners on first and second and one out, Bears starter Matt Randel, who pitched seven innings and surrendered three runs, induced a grounder from leadoff hitter Lee Jin-young, which should have been converted into a double play, but second baseman Ko Young-min committed an error in throwing to first to give the Wyverns a 3-1 advantage.
Kim Seong-geun-led team added the final run of the game on a wild pitch in the ninth.
After Wyverns starting pitcher Song Eun-beom delivered 2 1/3 innings and gave up a run, six relievers combined for scoreless 6 2/3 innings with five hits.
The Bears squandered two scoring chances ― runners on first and third with no out in the seventh and bases loaded with two outs in the eighth.