A year after squeezing themselves into the Korean baseball postseason with a late push, the NC Dinos are trying to mount another run as the 2026 campaign enters its final stretch. Starting this week in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), teams will begin playing makeup games, instead of a pair of three-game sets. The Dinos are in sixth place at 55-59-2 (wins-losses-ties), 4 1/2 games behind the Doosan Bears (62-57-4) for the final postseason spot. The Dinos had their seven-game winning streak snapped Sunday, while the Bears ended their five-game slide on the same day. The clubs' earlier wild swings saw the gap between these two clubs narrow from eight games on Aug. 30 to 3 1/2 games prior to Sunday's action. And these two rivals will clash at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, the Bears' home, for two games on the weekend. The Bears hold an 8-3-0 edge in their season series against the Dinos. But the Dinos have seven games in hand, making the current, 4 1/2-game gap seem not insurmountable. Last year, the Dinos won their final nine regular-season games to grab the final postseason spot. T