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| Samsung Lions Seung-Hwan Oh. Yeongnam Ilbo DB |
The Samsung Lions fell into a pit of 3 consecutive losses.
Samsung failed to report its first win of the season by losing 3-6 in the first game against Doosan Bears in the 2021 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 6th.
Director Heo Sam-young, who has to endure April, is complicated. While checking the resources of the first baseman, you have to make performances, and you have to set the order of the center batting line, while keeping the overall defensive balance. These conditions are the same for 10 clubs, but since Samsung has a severe power leak due to injuries to the main players, he has to consider the number of cases for a long time.
In fact, Samsung got twisted from the first step. As it rained nationwide on the 3rd, which was the opening day of this season, all games except for Samsung and Kiwoom, which are dome stadium games, were canceled. Apart from losing 2 in the 2nd straight match with Kiwoom, the starting pitching power of the match-to-match opponent differed by one step.
If the pitcher for the first match against Doosan was Choi Chae-heung, a native ace who escaped due to injuries, Samsung’s worries might have been much reduced. In the end, Huh’s choice was Baek Jung-hyun. Baek Jeong-hyun has shown a strong appearance against Doosan, and may have tried to increase the odds of winning even a little by having Won Tae-in and Doosan’s 3rd starter confront.
Baek Jung-hyun was good with 2 runs up to the 4th inning. In the 5th inning, Baek Jeong-hyun crossed the mound with a safe first and third base crisis, but Choi Ji-gwang finished the situation with only one run and maintained a score that could be sufficiently followed by 1-3.
The 6th and 7th Samsung mounds were strong. Choi Ji-kwang was in charge of up to two companies in the 6th episode, followed by Lim Hyun-jun even taking one outcount. In the 7th inning, Pil-jun Jang made Samsung’s only tripartite inning on this day.
When Shim Chang-min, who came up in the eighth inning, brought the risk of conceding one company, first and second base with a hit-ground ball-walking, coach Heo Sam-young chose Oh Seung-hwan.
Oh Seung-hwan’s card was a pretty unexpected choice. It means using the strongest closure with only 5 saves left until the first Korean professional baseball ‘300 saves’, but the only excuse is conditioning.
However, Seung-Hwan Oh was born in 1982 and is 40 years old this year in Korea. No matter how thorough self-management and dedication to the team, he is not young enough to bear more than his role. In the losing situation, questions remain about the purpose of bringing Oh Seung-hwan to 1 company rather than the 2nd company in the 8th episode.
What is even more shocking is the fact that Oh Seung-hwan collapsed. As soon as Seung-Hwan Oh started, he gave out two walks and dedicated the score for the push out, and soon after hitting a two-RBI hit, he scored three runs (one run). On this day, Oh Seung-hwan’s highest arrest was 146 km/h, and the average fastball restraint was 143.8 km. He couldn’t deceive other players as he shook up to the beginning of the change.
Seung-Hwan Oh is the best player in the team, has a great influence over the players, and is a type of player who smacks opponents with a ball. His restraint and pitch did not rise properly, but the fact that he was put into the game he was losing for the purpose of’realistic sense’ is a difficult choice even at the very beginning of the season. Reporter Siwoong Choi [email protected]
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