Oh Jae-il Wall Hwa Po Kim Kwang Hyun has 1,700 strikeouts. ‘Legend Memory Day’ is observed by the KBO League today.
If you go to Lions Park in Daegu, there is a mural of home run king Lee Seung-yeop.
Usually, Oh Jae-il shows respect to the mural by bowing to it, but in today’s home game against KIA, Oh Jae-il took a curveball from Panoni in the first inning and launched a grand slam home run into the right field wall where the mural is located.
With a smooth swing reminiscent of Lee Seung-yeop during his playing days, Oh smiled after hitting his third grand slam of the year to break out of a slump.
In the sixth inning, Kim Hyun-jun brought the home fans to their feet with another grand slam, this time over the right field fence, albeit not on the mural side.
However, Samsung allowed KIA to tie the game with a huge comeback.
Following the national hitter, it was SSG’s Kim Kwang-hyun who summoned national treasure pitcher Sun Dong-yeol.
In the second inning, he reached the 1,700-strikeout plateau against the KT platoon.
With five more strikeouts on the day, he passed Sun Dong-yeol for fourth place on the all-time strikeout list.
In the game, though, Park Byung-ho hit a leadoff single off Kim Kwang-hyun, and a one-man show earlier in the game, drawing a two-run arch off Lee Irene, to give KT the win.
Another legend in Busan,
A reverent memorial service was held in honor of the late pitcher Choi Dong-won, who became a star in the sky 12 years ago.
With the late pitcher’s mother, Kim Jung-ja, in attendance, Yoon Dong-hee, who wears Choi Dong-won’s No. 11 on his jersey, added to the meaning with a hustle play, 먹튀검증토토사이트 making a diving catch of a hit ball hidden by the lights.