Choo Shin-soo reports’first hit’ in front of his hometown friend Lee Dae-ho… “Face is very fast”

“The pace is very fast. We are preparing for the season, excluding the process.”

Choo Shin-soo (39, SSG) pulled the first hit on the KBO League stage in front of’best friend’ Lee Dae-ho (Lotte) in his hometown of Busan. Although it was an unofficial record because it was a demonstration game, Choo Shin-soo reported a walk and scored hits after the second match.

On the 22nd, Shin-soo Choo played as the nominated batter against Busan Lotte on the 22nd, receiving a 138km direct ball from Lotte pitcher Kim Gun-wook in the third at-bat from the 5th unsaved first base and pulled out a heavy hit. It is a hit that came out after 6 at-bats in the KBO League debut. Choo Shin-soo went out as the next hitter, Go Myung-jun, but he received hot cheers from his colleagues at Dougout. After the game, Choo Shin-soo responded calmly, saying, “It’s just one hit in the process of preparing for the season.” “The pace is very fast. In the major leagues, it is the stage of live betting before the demonstration game, but now I have been training for about a week and I am playing the game right away.” “It is too early to judge that it is going well or not because we are playing the game completely excluding the routine. Right now, I am simply checking the timing and the ball, and the strike zone.”

Shin-soo Choo recorded his first walk in the absence of a runner in one company. Choo Shin-soo, who faced opposition starter Noh Kyung-eun, headed for Dougout, thinking that it was a strikeout after the fifth change-up in the 2 ball-2 strike came into the catcher’s mitt. However, when it was judged as a ball, he smiled brightly and went back to the plate at bat, picked the 6th ball and walked out. The day before his debut, it was the first on-base of Choo Shin-soo, who only ended up striking out 3 at-bats without hitting 2 in the Changwon NC game. He then advanced to third with Choi Jung’s double in the third, and then stepped to the groove in the fourth Jamie Romac’s center fielder sacrifice fly.

Lee Dae-ho played as the nominated hitter No. 4 and played against Choo Shin-soo for the first time in the KBO League. Lee Dae-ho also scored 1 RBI in 2 at-bats against SSG Oh Won-seok in the 3rd inning against Won-Seok Oh in 2 at-bats, and couldn’t choose between Choo Shin-soo (2 at-bats, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 point).

Before the game, while Choo Shin-soo was warming up with a tubing band, Lee Dae-ho visited and the two of them happily hugged and relaxed. Shin-soo Choo met with reporters before the game and said, “There is nothing special. It happened often in the United States, and it was only nice and nice to meet friends.” Daeho Lee said, “I asked each other how they were doing and said that they were happy. (Chu) Shin-soo became a professional player and had never played with him except for the national team, so he felt strange even when playing in the major leagues. As time passed, I felt different to be able to play baseball in one stadium in Korea.” The two were from Suyeong Elementary School in Busan and played baseball together. The anecdote that Choo Shin-soo recommended to the baseball team coach is famous when he was interested in the big Lee Dae-ho when he was in the 3rd year of Suyeong Elementary School. Choo Shin-soo went through Busan Middle School and Busan High School, and Lee Dae-ho went through Daedong Middle School and Gyeongnam High School, respectively.

In the game, Lotte, who scored 5 points by hitting intensively in the 7th inning, won 10-3.

Meanwhile, SSG decided to change the name of the home stadium from the existing Incheon SK Happy Dream Stadium to’Incheon SSG Landers Field’ and use it from a demonstration game with Samsung on the 25th.

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