Professional baseball playball!… Choo Shin-soo and Lee Dae-ho face off
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Professional baseball is coming to an end of the 2021 season today.
Unlike last season, which opened with no spectators, this year, the first game is played with fans.
Let’s look at the opening atmosphere by connecting reporters out at Gocheok Sky Dome. Reporter Jung Joo-hee.
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Yes, it is listed in Gocheok Sky Dome.
On November 24, last year, NC Dinos won its first championship at this place, and the professional baseball ended after 4 months.
For the first time in the history of off-season, all 10 clubs have trained in Korea, but it’s been a while since we have met fans, and both fans and players are excited.
Pro baseball, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, will start a 144 game per team in the regular season starting today.
If the Tokyo Olympics are held in July as scheduled, professional baseball will be temporarily suspended, so it is expected that it will be on a tight schedule.
Last season’s opening game was held a month late as’no spectators’ due to Corona 19, but this year, the first game will begin with fans.
Spectators can enter 10% in the metropolitan area and 30% in the non-metropolitan area except for resignation.
All tickets for 1,670 seats of Gocheok Dome were sold here.
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Perhaps the most attention was paid to the opening of the SSG Landers and the Lotte Giants, which will be playing their first match.
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Yes, the distribution derby of SSG Landers and Lotte Giants, which celebrate their first year, will be held from the opening series.
Prior to the opening of the SSG, Jung Yong-jin, the owner of SSG, who put’Synergy between Distribution and Baseball’, declared war on “Lotte will follow while crying.”
In addition, the first official match between Choo Shin-soo, a friend of the same age born in 82, and Lee Dae-ho, a major hitter of Lotte, is also predicted.
Unfortunately, it is raining nationwide today, so the literature, Jamsil, and Suwon matches were canceled in the rain.
Therefore, the first meeting between SSG and Lotte, with plenty of things to see, promises to be tomorrow.
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Please also introduce the Gocheok Dome confrontation that takes place regardless of the rain.
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Yes, here in Gocheok, Kiwoom and Samsung hold the opening game.
Ace Yokishi and Buchanan from both teams, who have already been verified in the KBO League, will be the starting positions.
Yokishi earned 12 wins with an average ERA of 2.14 last year.
Buchanan has 15 wins and an ERA of 3.45.
Kiwoom, who is a regular fall baseball player, has never won a championship, is starting a new season with the goal of a new Korean series with coach Wonki Hong.
On the other hand, Samsung, which raised its abilities by recruiting Geopo infielder Oh Jae-il in the free contract market, is aiming for fall baseball.
However, as Jae-il Oh was diagnosed with a one-month absence due to an oblique muscle injury ahead of the opening, difficulties are expected in the beginning of the opening.
This is Yonhap News TV Joo-hee Jung at Gocheok Sky Dome. ([email protected])
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