Excluding the first team with suspected microfractures → normal training → It was almost unfair... '8th Man of the Year's Day' → Is the old second baseman's homework finally solved?
Aug 31, 2024
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The unexpected injury of Kim Sang-soo is announcing the emergence of a new second baseman. The efforts to find Park Kyung-soo's successor over the years are paying off in the wrong situation. The main character is Oh Yoon-seok.
Kim Sang-soo is not in the first team right now. On the 23rd, he collided with SSG catcher Kim Min-sik while sliding home against SSG and injured his finger in the process. However, he played until the end of the game, but was canceled from the first-team entry the next day due to a suspected fracture of his right pinkie. However, when he underwent a thorough examination at another hospital, he was found to have no abnormalities in his bones, but only that his ligament was stretched. Kim Sang-soo is also not very sick, so he is exercising normally with his colleagues.
I could have run if the swelling disappeared after taking a few days off, but I was forced to take 10 days off.
In the end, he needed a player to replace him. At first, Lee Ho-yeon came out as second baseman.
However, he couldn't hit for two days on the 24th and 25th. Rather, Oh Yoon-seok, who was a pinch hitter, drew one walk each for two days.
And Oh Yoon-seok began to start against LG in Jamsil on the 27th. He made a critical defensive error in defense in the bottom of the second inning. With one out and runners on the first and second bases, Oh Ji-hwan caught a ground ball and threw it to shortstop Shim Woo-joon, but the toss was a little low, and Shim Woo-joon ran up and caught it with his glove and dropped it. The record showed Shim Woo-joon's mistake in the catch, so Oh Yoon-seok's toss was also regrettable. However, he showed a clear presence in the attack. He hit a right triple with two outs in the top of the seventh inning when his team was trailing 0-4. Later, he homered with a third baseman error and scored his team's last point of the day.
And on the 28th, he called out a runaway victory. Oh Yoon-seok, who started on the bench because there was no hit by opponent starter Choi Won-tae, hit a pinch hitter in the top of the eighth inning and connected Kim Jin-sung's first pitch with a home run. It was a home run that changed the atmosphere from 1-4 to 2-4, narrowing the gap between two points. Later, Hwang Jae-kyun's tiebreaking two-run shot exploded, tying the game 4-4.
And Oh Yoon-seok came out as a leadoff hitter in the top of the 10th inning and made an infield hit to the third baseman to set the stage for the upset. Afterwards, Jang Sung-woo succeeded in scoring a come-from-behind score when he hit left-handed. He went 2 for 2 with an RBI and two runs scored.
He will confidently start on the 29th. And he also announced the start of a come-from-behind victory. Oh Yoon-seok, who was the second batter and scored after getting on base with a third-base hit in his first at-bat, turned the game around 7-5 with Rojas' sweeping double in the top of the eighth inning, trailing 3-5, and scored an additional RBI following a heavy hit. In the bottom of the ninth inning, LG followed two runs and eventually won 8-7 thanks to Oh Yoon-seok's additional point.
On the 30th, he came out as the sixth batter against Suwon LG, but he hit a solo shot over the left-center fence against Ham Deok-ju after one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, trailing 5-8. Reminded of the game on the 28th, he gave LG anxiety and KT hope. Unfortunately, there was no follow-up hit, and LG scored an additional point in the top of the ninth inning and eventually lost 7-11. Still, Oh Yoon-seok's hit was enough to give him faith. During the absence of Kim Sang-soo, Oh Yoon-seok played in six games until the 30th and recorded a batting average of 576 (8 hits in 14 at-bats) with two home runs, four RBIs, and six runs.
Although the error situation on the 27th was painful, he also showed a lot of good defense, which was evaluated as a lot better defense than before. Kim Sang-soo can return on Sept. 3. In the meantime, Oh Yoon-seok is expected to continue to fill the position.
Every year, KT was given assignments to find a successor to Park Kyung-soo, the main second baseman, but failed to solve it properly. I used several players, but they sparkled. This time, however, Oh Yoon-seok has a big impact. The void of the main second baseman, which could have been unfair, seems to be an opportunity to announce the birth of a new second baseman.
indyk@sportschosun.com
