Samsung leads the Korean Series 2-1 after beating KT 5-1 in Game 3 on Friday. Game 4 is Saturday at 2 p.m. KST at Daegu Samsung Lions Park, which is 12:00 a.m. ET, midnight Friday night on the East Coast.

How to Watch

Free outside South Korea: SOOP, at kbo.sooplive.com or in the SOOP app. Korean-language broadcast.
In South Korea: TVING, plus national broadcast TV.
Live stats: mykbostats.com

First pitch: 12:00 a.m. ET Saturday. That’s 11:00 p.m. CT, 10:00 p.m. MT and 9:00 p.m. PT on Friday.

Full series schedule.

Starters

KT: Logan Allen, LHP. Allen pitched for Canada at the World Baseball Classic in March, eligible through his Montreal-born father. He allowed one run in 3 1/3 innings in the Puerto Rico pool. He then signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers, was released, and joined KT in June as a six-week injury replacement for Caleb Boushley. KT kept him for the rest of the season. Allen pitched for the NC Dinos in 2025. This regular season he had a 3.59 ERA with 83 strikeouts in 92 2/3 innings over 17 starts. KT used him in relief in Game 1, where he retired one of three batters and allowed two runs.

Samsung: Jang Chan-hee, RHP. The 19-year-old rookie made 41 appearances during the season, nine of them starts, with a 4.50 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 76 innings. He threw two innings in relief in Game 1 and allowed two runs.

How Game 3 Went

KT scored first on a Sam Hilliard double in the first inning. Hyoung-woo Choi tied it with an RBI single in the bottom half. In the second, Samsung loaded the bases on three walks and took the lead on a fielder’s choice. Ja-wook Koo then hit a two-run triple off the glove of right fielder Hyun-min Ahn at the wall.

Ariel Jurado gave up one run on six hits with six strikeouts over seven innings, and at one point retired 16 of 19 hitters. He has a 1.31 ERA in 20 2/3 postseason innings. Seung-kyu Park homered in the eighth.

KT scored eight runs through the first six innings of Game 1. It has scored three in the 24 innings since. Full Game 3 recap.

What’s at Stake

When the first two games of a Korean Series are split, the Game 3 winner has gone on to win the title 16 times in 18 tries. Samsung last won in 2014.

KT finished the regular season eight games ahead of Samsung. Since 2002 the top seed has lost the Korean Series only twice, most recently in 2018.

Series results
Game 1: KT 8, Samsung 7 (recap)
Game 2: Samsung 3, KT 2, 12 innings (recap)
Game 3: Samsung 5, KT 1 (recap)
Game 4: tonight

Remaining Schedule

Game 5: Sunday, Nov. 8, 12:00 a.m. ET, Daegu
Game 6*: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 4:30 a.m. ET, Suwon
Game 7*: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 4:30 a.m. ET, Suwon

*if necessary

Sources: Yonhap, Chosun Ilbo/OSEN, Korea JoongAng Daily, Korea Times, World Baseball Network, Baseball-Reference, MyKBOStats, SOOP.