"Even if it's right, it's better to get Park Young-hyun right." Kim Taek-yeon, KKKKK→The coach's intention to overcome the nightmare and watch the ending match
Jul 11, 2024
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a head-on collision between fastball finishes. It was KT Wiz's afterthought that he turned the risk of humiliation into a walk-off victory.
KT Wiz will play Game 3 of the Weekday Series against the Doosan Bears at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 11th.
KT won the game 7-6 against Doosan the previous day with Kang Baek-ho's walk-off hit in the bottom of the 10th inning.
However, he was humiliated earlier. Doosan closer Kim Taek-yeon struck out Oh Jae-il, Bae Jung-dae, and Hwang Jae-gyun with nine pitches and three consecutive strikeouts in the bottom of the ninth inning to achieve the so-called 'Perfect Innings'.
This is not the only one. At the bottom of the 10th inning, Kim Taek-yeon struck out Kim Sang-soo (six strikeouts) and Park Min-seok (three strikeouts) in succession, raising the momentum of five consecutive strikeouts. However, Hong Hyun-bin walked after the full count match, followed by Rojas' hit and Kang Baek-ho's walk-off hit, and succeeded in turning it over.
KT manager Lee Kang-chul, who met before the game, looked back on the previous day's game, saying, `The one inning thrown by Woo Kyu-min was big.'
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As for Doosan's Kim Taek-yeon's good pitching the day before, "I'm a direct-pitch pitcher, so what if it gets longer? I thought so. It goes past the end of the 10th inning and at the end of the 11th, it starts with LOHAS…I was thinking about it, but I got a walk. "Oh, if I do this, I have to score a point here? I looked back on the moment when I breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "I did it, but fortunately I got the score."
However, he sighed, recalling his fifth consecutive strikeout prior to the game-ending turnaround. Recalling the match against Doosan Bears in Jamsil on May 10, he shook his head, saying, `I was beaten by Kim Taek-yeon on the second and third bases with no outs in the seventh inning.' Still, it's a memory that I can look back on since I won.
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As for the walk-off loss, "I had no choice but to put it up in the 10th inning because I only threw nine balls in the 9th inning."But it's my responsibility to go to extra time and, as a result, leave the finishing team to multi-inning," he added.
Prior to this, KT put in closing pitcher Park Young-hyun with two outs in the eighth inning. Park Young-hyun pitched without losing a point in the first ⅓, laying the foundation for Woo Kyu-min to take the mound in the top of the 10th inning.
Coach Lee Kang-chul said, `Park Young-hyun would go out in the ninth inning anyway. I wondered what it would do if I scored and finished it off. I put up with one out in the eighth inning, but he caught two out, so let's use it. Even if it's right, it's less painful for (Park) Young-hyun to be hit. If I don't use my credit card, it'll be unfair," he said with a smile.
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Coach Lee Kang-chul is also one of the leading healing head coaches. Oh Jae-il, who moved to KT during the season from the Samsung Lions, said, `I've never seen such a warm-hearted coach before.'
However, the head coach himself had a different opinion.
"A player's mental management? It's hard for me to get myself together."
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