![Choo Shin-soo hits no hits before his debut, but’Team Landers’ won [엠스플 현장]](https://www.mbcsportsplus.com/data/board/attach/2021/04/20210404165444_odctqzmg.jpg "Choo Shin-soo hits no hits before his debut, but’Team Landers’ won [엠스플 현장]")
| Shin-soo Choo was unable to report his first hit with no-hits in 3 at-bats in his debut in the KBO League. However, SSG defeated rival Lotte and won the opening game thanks to the multi-home run of Choi Jeong-Choi Joo-hwan.
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“It doesn’t mean that you win just by catching Choo Shin-soo.”
Incheon SSG Landers Field on April 4. Ahead of the opening game on this day, when he asked the Lotte Giants coach Heo Moon-hoe how to attack Choo Shin-soo, coach Heo revealed that he was not targeting only one player Choo Shin-soo. “If you catch only one player as a target, you can be beaten by other players,” he said, emphasizing that he should throw his ball regardless of the name of the opponent.
As a result, director Huh’s remarks became a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. On this day, Choo Shin-soo could not report a hit before his debut in the KBO League with no hits in 3 at-bats. He persistently scored the ball and tormented the pitcher, but he only walked one and there were no hits. He also struck out two in the first at-bat in the first and the fourth at-bat in the eighth. In the 3rd inning, the center fielder’s big bat was caught by lake rain. Shin-soo Choo did not have much fun with a batting average of 0.163 before the opening of the major leagues.
However, apart from Choo Shin-soo’s record, the match result was SSG’s victory. ‘Dan Streyley’s nemesis’ Choo Shin-soo was silent, but the rest of the SSG attacked actively. At the end of the 2nd inning, Choi Jung beat the season’s beast-girl solo gun, and at the end of the 4th inning, Choi Jung’s infield hit and Choi Joo-hwan’s 2nd store took the lead 3-1. After hitting two home runs, Strayley went down with 7 hits and 3 runs in 6 innings, leaving less than expected results.
At the end of the 8th inning, chased by 3-2, there was a back-to-back home run. Choo Shin-soo struck out against Choi Joon-yong, but Choi Jung immediately ran a large home run in the middle and left by two points. Then Joo-Hwan Choi also drew an arch to the right and scored 5-2. Choi Jung and Choi Joo-hwan are side by side in a three-hit-multi-home run game. SSG showed off firepower worthy of the reputation of the’Home Run Corps’ by popping 4 home runs from the opening game.
On the mound, starter Arty LeWiki won the decision against Strayley with two runs in six innings. Bullpendo Kim Tae-hoon and Lee Tae-yang, who were uneasy in the demonstration game, blocked the 7-8 innings without a run, and Kim Sang-soo took a save with one run. A 5-3 victory, with owner Jeong Yong-jin watching, the first match played with SSG Landers was decorated with a pleasing victory.
Coach Won-hyung Kim, who won the command tower debut, said, “The players played a good game. LeWiki threw well in six innings and scored a quality start, and he stopped mid pitchers well. It seems that the driving force to win was to try to make the striker throw a lot of balls at Strayley,” he said.
The coach’s first victory and SSG’s first victory was “Thank you to the players. Personally, the team also approves it for the first time, and I will try to keep showing good performance for the next 143 games.” I ask for a lot of support.”
Choo Shin-soo, who made his debut in the KBO League, said, “It may not be the result that many people wanted, but we are very satisfied with today’s game as we look forward to the future game because we value the process.” “Except for the second at-bat, I saw at least five balls in the at-bat. There was no at-bat that was easily out.”
Shin-soo Choo said, “In fact, there was no tension at all, and I rather enjoyed it.”
When asked how they played the game amid the cheering of the crowd, he said, “It was really unfamiliar,” he said, “I watched a lot in the video, but in fact, in the United States, unless it is in the postseason, I don’t cheer for every purchase. “I felt like a postseason in the United States as the spectators were enthusiastic in every phrase and the players cheering at Dougout.”
Then Shin-soo Choo said, “I heard the crowd. I really felt that I was playing Korean baseball. It was the last time I heard the cheering of students in the finals of my high school days, and I was grateful and happy. “I was happy to be at the baseball field and I was happy to be playing baseball.”
Choo Shin-soo said, “I want to mean that Lottera won the first button well by winning against a really good team,” and said, “I look forward to the game in the future because the morale of the players has risen a lot.”
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