[월:] 2023년 10월

Korean baseball was once known as the ‘stage of the 1982 generation’.

Choo Shin-soo (SSG Landers), Lee Dae-ho, Kim Tae-gyun, Jung Geun-woo (retired) and other players of their age who made a ‘mark’ on Korean baseball led the game both at home and abroad.

But the years have not been kind to them either.

Kim Tae-gyun and Jeong Geun-woo said goodbye to baseball in 2020 and Lee Dae-ho in 2022.

Pitcher Oh Seung-hwan (Samsung Lions), born in 1982, has also had his ups and downs this season.

Seung-hwan Oh, the oldest pitcher in the KBO, was relieved of his closer’s duties after an extremely difficult start to the season, with a string of blown saves.

Those around him said, “Oh Seung-hwan is getting old.

There was even talk of Seung-hwan preparing to retire.

He will become a free agent (FA) for the last time this season, and it was expected that he would not be able to overcome the limitations of age and finish his career as it is.

However, in May, Seung-hwan Oh experimented with all sorts of things in order to make a comeback, including pitching as a starter 19 years after his debut.

At the ripe old age of 40, Oh Seung-hwan left all his pride behind and started from the bottom, returning to the closer’s role and impressing fans in June when he became the first Korean-American to record 500 saves.

The 2023 season was full of challenges.

Seung-hwan’s insecurities were still on display, and when he couldn’t find his old form despite all his efforts, his insides burned.

In a game against KT WIZ on 16 June, he nervously threw the ball and slammed his glove in response to the bench’s grating instructions.

Fans were shocked, as Seung-hwan usually doesn’t show his emotions.

Seung-hwan Oh was sent down to the second team, and the word “retirement” surfaced again.

Seung-hwan Oh literally fought to the death. He gritted his teeth, believing that he could make a comeback.

Samsung coach Park Jin-man, who sent him to the second team, encouraged him, saying, “I heard that he trained harder than anyone else in the second team.”

Oh didn’t give up.

He knew he couldn’t defy time, but he didn’t want to end his career the same way.

He tried everything he could under the circumstances.

Little by little, he started to come back to life. Surprisingly for a 41-year-old, Seung-hwan’s form improved from August, when the heat wave hit.

His body wasn’t what it used to be, but his focus and heart remained the same.

He was back to his old self in August, appearing in 13 games in relief and recording 10 saves.

The upward trend continued. In September, he was outstanding, posting a 1.04 ERA in eight games.

The 400-save milestone in the KBO seemed far away.

In a double-header against the Lotte Giants on the 2nd, he was at his best, closing both games and collecting two saves.

Soon, Oh’s career saves in the KBO reached 399.

The chance to reach 400 saves was not going to come easily.

Against the KT Wiz on the 5th of this month, after leading 5-2, they added a run in the top of the ninth inning to make it a four-run deficit.

Since then, Samsung has lost three straight games and is down to just two games remaining this season.

Seung-hwan Oh doesn’t have much time left. No one was sure if he would be able to keep the closer’s job next year or even stay in the game.

On the 14th, Samsung played its final home game of the season against SSG at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in front of a sold-out crowd of 24,000.

The game was not easy. Samsung was down 1-3 going into the sixth inning.

But the Samsung juniors rallied for Oh Seung-hwan.

In the bottom of the sixth, they scored three runs in dramatic fashion to make it 4-3, and it was up to Seung-hwan to save the game.

Seung-hwan Oh took the mound earlier than usual. In the top of the eighth inning, the tying run was on second base.

His opponent was his friend Choo Shin-soo. Seung-hwan Oh threw a ‘fastball’ on a full count.

Shin-soo Choo reacted, and the ball flew to first base. Samsung’s first baseman Lee Sung-kyu threw himself to make the catch.

Seung-hwan Oh, who was expressionless, smiled and grabbed Lee’s hand.

Seung-hwan Oh was again on the mound in the top of the ninth inning with a 5-3 lead.

With runners on first and second, his pitch count exceeded 30 pitches. But no one could stop him.

He worked a full count against the final batter, Park Sung-hwan, and after striking him out with a straight hit to left field, he hugged catcher Kang Min-ho and smiled broadly.

All the Samsung players went up to the mound to congratulate Oh Seung-hwan. 슬롯사이트

After impressing at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, the Taekwondo Warriors showed no signs of rust at the 104th Jeonnam National Championships and are back in the medal hunt in earnest.

Baek In-chul (23, Busan Jung-gu Office), who won the men’s 50-metre butterfly in Hangzhou with a new Korean record, made his presence felt in Mokpo by setting the first Korean record of the Games.

Baek won the men’s 50-metre butterfly in a new Korean record of 23.15 seconds at the Mokpo Indoor Swimming Pool in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, on Thursday.

He set a new meet record of 23.44 in the preliminaries earlier in the day and then broke the Korean record in the final.

Paik became the first South Korean to win a gold medal in the 50m butterfly at the Hangzhou Asian Games on 28 March, setting a Korean record in both the preliminaries and the final.

This is the fourth time Baek has broken the Korean record this year.

Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Province), who won three medals in Hangzhou, blew away the field in the 1,500m freestyle final with a time of 15:15.75.

Kim suffered from an upset stomach, high fever and body aches due to food poisoning ahead of the event, but battled back to win the gold medal and showcase his Asian Games prowess.

In roller skating in Naju, Chung Byung-hee (Chungbuk Sports Federation), who won gold in the excluded + points (EP) 10,000m in Hangzhou, took silver in the men’s 10,000m excluded event.

His older brother, Jung Byung-kwan, took the gold, making it a family affair.

Jeong Byung-kwan and Jeong Byung-hee will attempt to win multiple titles in the 3,000 metres relay and the 10,000 metres excluded + points (EP) at the Games.

Choi In-ho (Nonsan City Hall), Chung Chul-won (Andong City Hall) and Choi Kwang-ho (Daegu City Hall), who disappointed their fans in the 3,000m relay in Hangzhou by settling for silver after being upset by Chinese Taipei, finished fourth to sixth.

In the men’s general competition, Seo Chang-wan (Jeonnam-do) won the pentathlon with a total of 1,051 points, ahead of Jeon Woong-tae (Gwangju Metropolitan City) with 1,558 points. Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Jeon made up for his disappointment by winning gold in the team event.

In archery, Lee Woo-seok (Kolon), who won the men’s team and mixed team titles in Hangzhou, set a new competition record with a score of 340 from 90 metres in the qualification round.

Archery, which is said to be harder to compete in than the Asian Games and Olympics in domestic competitions, will begin its tournament on the 16th. 안전놀이터

After finishing ninth last year, the Doosan Bears are back in the Korean Baseball Organization postseason for the first time in two years.

Doosan secured at least a fifth-place finish in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League with a 3-2 win over the visiting LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on Thursday, marking the final day of autumn baseball.

Chasing Doosan were the KIA Tigers (71 wins, two ties and 69 losses), who were eliminated from postseason contention at sixth place regardless of their remaining games.

Lee “The People’s Hitter” Seung-yeop took over the reins of Doosan and immediately gave the team a postseason berth.

With this, all five teams that will compete in autumn baseball in 2023 are set.

For the first time in 29 years, since 1994, LG has qualified directly for the Korean Series by finishing first in the regular season, while KT WIZ heads into the playoffs in second place.

The position of the three teams in third place – SSG Landers, NC Dinos and Doosan – will depend on their remaining games.

After pounding out 10 hits and struggling to convert them into runs, Doosan’s persistence paid off in the ninth inning.

Doosan opened the scoring in the top of the second when Kang Seung-ho hit an infield single to shortstop that set up back-to-back singles by Yang Ji and Yang Seok-hwan.

LG tied the game briefly after a pitching change with Austin Dean’s 23rd solo home run of the season to left-centre field.

The 1-1 lull was broken in the top of the seventh inning when Doosan’s leadoff batter, Kim Jae-hwan, reached second base on an error by the first baseman.

Following Kang Seung-ho’s send-off bunt, Kim Jae-ho rolled a bunt toward first base to send pinch-hitter Kim Tae-geun home.

After being held in check by Doosan starter Brandon Waddell, LG tied the game at 2-2 in the eighth against reliever Chung Chul-won.

Lee Jae-won, the ‘big boy in the sleeper’, pulled a high slider from Jeong Chul-won for a home run that landed in the left-field bleachers.

Doosan’s efforts to erase the magic number one were desperate.

In the top of the ninth inning, after Yang Seok-hwan drew a one-out walk, Lee Seung-yeop brought in pinch-hitter Lee Yoo-chan.

Lee promptly stole second base and reached third on the next batter’s grounder.

He then came home when Kang Seung-ho hit a grounder that dropped in front of the right fielder.

Doosan had runners on first and second with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, but Kim Myung-shin struck out Austin, Oh Ji-hwan and Moon Bo-kyung in succession to secure the victory.

Samsung Lions reliever Oh Seung-hwan reached the 400-save milestone in the KBO in his final home game of the season against SSG Lander in Daegu.

With his team leading 4-3 in the top of the eighth inning, Oh Seung-hwan entered the game with the bases loaded and two outs to preserve a 5-3 victory.

Oh, who turned pro with Samsung in 2005, reached the 400-save milestone in 668 games.

Combined with his 122 saves in the United States and Japan, Oh has 522 career saves.

Seung-hwan Oh reached 500 saves in his Korean-American career on 6 June against the NC Dinos.

With Oh Seung-hwan on the mound, SSG brought in Kim Kang-min, who is the same age as Oh Seung-hwan at 41, and then replaced him with another 41-year-old, Choo Shin-soo.

Choo spun his bat sharply on a three-ball two-strike at-bat, but Samsung first baseman Lee Sung-kyu made a great catch of a hard-hit ball flowing over the top of the infield to take the pressure off Oh Seung-hwan’s shoulders.

Oh gave up singles to Oh Tae-gon and Han Yoo-seom in the ninth to put runners on first and second, but he got Guillermo Heredia to fly out to right field for the final out.

He then gave up a huge foul home run to Park Sung-ho that just cleared the right-field fence, but regained his composure and lined it straight to left field, finally smiling.

With one game left in the regular season, Samsung used two foreign pitchers, David Buchanan and Taylor Widener, back-to-back for its final home game to give its fans a win.

Trailing 1-3 in the bottom of the sixth, Samsung scored three runs with runners on first and second on back-to-back singles by Kang Min-ho and Ryu Ji-hyuk and a sacrifice fly by Jose Pirela to take a 4-3 lead.

Lee Sung-gyu, who relieved Oh Seung-hwan in the bottom of the eighth, capped the scoring with a triple to right-centre field.

The Hanwha Eagles swept the Lotte Giants 8-0 at home in Daejeon to end their six-game losing streak and escape last-place ignominy for the fourth straight year.

This confirms Kiwoom Heroes as the lowest-placed team this season. Lotte is also locked into seventh place.

Hanwha slugger Noh Si-hwan reached his 100th RBI of the season with a grounder to shortstop in the first inning, becoming the second-youngest player in history to reach the 30-homer-100-RBI milestone after Lee Seung-yeop (22). Noh will turn 23 in December this year.

Noh, who has 31 home runs to his name, reached 100 RBIs in a season for the first time since his debut in 2019 and increased his tally to 101 with an infield single in the eighth inning.

Hanwha took a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning on Nick Williams’ mid-month two-run homer and added three runs in the eighth to make it 5-0 and give Lotte the white flag. Williams led the way with four hits and four RBIs. 파워볼게임

Oh Seung-hwan (Samsung Lions), who became the first pitcher in professional baseball to reach the 400-save milestone, admitted that he felt pressure to achieve the record.

“I’m sorry for not being able to hold my head up high this year,” Oh said through the club after making his 400th career KBO League save in a home game against the SSG Landers of the 2023 KBO League at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on Thursday, “but I’m glad that we won the last game (at home).”

“I’ve been feeling pressure and conscious about achieving 400 saves,” he said, adding, “I didn’t say it out loud, but I also thought, ‘When will it come?

In the meantime, Oh Seung-hwan said he doesn’t attach much meaning to personal records.

Whenever he has set a record, such as the 500th career save in the Korean-American Baseball Organization, he hasn’t expressed any pressure to achieve it.

However, on this day, he was just like any other pitcher and expressed his feelings honestly.

When asked about the most memorable save he’s ever made, Oh said, “Today’s save.”

Seung-hwan Oh’s 400th save was a dramatic one.

He hadn’t made his 400th save in a long time after recording his 399th career save.

As Samsung’s remaining regular-season games dwindled, the dramatic save came in the final home game on the 14th.

Taking the mound with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the eighth inning with a 4-3 lead, Oh Seung-hwan threw 34 pitches in 1 1/3 innings, striking out two and walking none to preserve the win.

“I don’t have any goals left,” Oh said, “I just want the team to win a lot of games and move up in the standings.”

“If I get a win, it will mean that I made a lot of saves,” he added. 스포츠토토