It's not the Oh Seung Hwan we knew...Why did I dedicate a full count to Taegon who was out of his mind
Sep 16, 2024
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It was a shocking two-day weekend for the Samsung Lions. It was a back-to-back slugfest with SSG Landers. The result was 9-11, 9-14. In both games, he hit a grand slam and lost.
If you play, you can lose. Also, two consecutive losses will not affect the general trend. In fact, it was not easy to catch up with the No. 1 KIA Tigers. There is also room for a gap with the third-place LG Twins.
However, the game on the 15th was too painful. Pinch hitter Kim Young-woong's dramatic bases-loaded shot turned the game around, but Oh Seung-hwan, who believed in it in the seventh inning, collapsed and allowed the game to turn around. Oh lost nine games this season. The nine losses of a player who plays in the closing group are shocking.
He took the mound in the seventh inning with a two-run gap. I handled Lee Ji-young and Ko Myung-jun easily. However, he allowed a double to Shin Bum-soo, who has a strong batting sense recently. And he gave a two-run shot to pinch hitter Oh Tae-gon. Oh Seung-hwan, who couldn't get his act together with this home run, was replaced after being hit by a double by Park Sung-han and a come-from-behind final hit by Jung Joon-jae.
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Let's watch the competition. I caught it well up to 2S. After 1B, Oh Tae-gon missed the timing at all on a fastball in the late 140km range and just swung and missed. It looked like a high-flying ball in the middle, but the way Oh Tae-gon stuck his tongue out meant that the ball was powerful at the end.
If so, what if we went into the game more aggressively. However, Oh took out his fastball on the fourth pitch. It fell out too much. It has become a meaningless attraction. Oh Seung-hwan's head became complicated when Oh Tae-gon cut it off when he used the fastball and dropped the winning slider.
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If it was Oh Seung-hwan in his prime, he would have put the fastball in the middle once again after seeing his opponent staggering with holding 2S. However, as the years have passed, the restraint has declined, and there are more cases where they experience the power they have fallen on their own, or they are running away. However, what was disappointing about Oh Tae-gon's at-bat was that he failed to take advantage of the fact that he had no clue about the previous two fastball games.
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Samsung is a team that is trying to advance to the Korean Series and win the championship after second place in the regular season. Oh Seung-hwan gave up the finishing spot, but without him, it's heaven and earth. There is no need to explain the existence of a veteran pitcher who will prevent one important inning in a big game. That's how we should keep an eye on Oh Seung-hwan's moves. Ahead of the end of the regular season, we have to find confidence somehow. That way, Samsung can also look higher.
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