Take off your helmet and say hello → home run → hit → steal…KT, who wanted to leave so much, why couldn't I laugh when I put in a dagger
Take off your helmet and say hello → home run → hit → steal…KT, who wanted to leave so much, why couldn't I laugh when I put in a dagger
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Park Byung-ho (38, Samsung Lions), who properly inserted a dagger into his old KT Wiz club that he had long wanted to leave. Until the top of the ninth inning, he seemed to be the hero of the "Park Byung-ho Derby," but he had to watch his former teammates perform the ceremony with joy as his team suffered a painful walk-off defeat in the bottom of the ninth inning.룸알바
Park Byung-ho started as the seventh first baseman in his sixth showdown of the season against the KT Wiz in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 28th and played 2 hits in 4 at-bats (one home run), one RBI, one run and one stolen base.
Park Byung-ho was Park Byung-ho. He drew Archie at his first at-bat in the first meeting with his former team. He took off his helmet and bowed to KT fans in the first base stand without runners, and hit a left-center solo home run (125 meters) by hitting a curveball (114 kilometers) from KT starter Joey-hyun at the count of 0B-1S. It was his ninth homerun of this season in about two weeks since a game against the LG Twins in Daegu on June 13. Park hit the Suwon fence for the first time in 51 days since the game against the NC Dinos in Suwon on May 8, when he was a KT player.
Before the game, Park Byung-ho's batting average dropped to .21 percent in the previous season, but his bat was fierce. "If you are a veteran like Park, you have to overcome (the pressure). Don't you have a lot of experience? If you meet your parents, they will change your eyes," Park Jin-man said in a preliminary interview.
His second at-bat was also a hit. With no runner on and one out in the top of the fourth inning when his team was leading 3-0, he had a double hit in the game against Joey-hyeon, and achieved multi-hit in about a month since the match against the Daegu Hanwha Eagles in Daegu on May 31. It was a one-base hit that forced Joey to leave the mound. Afterwards, he stole second base and recorded his first stolen base since transferring. That was against his former team.
Afterwards, Park struck out swinging in the top of the sixth inning and fouled fly to the first baseman in the top of the ninth inning to wrap up his first meeting with his parents. Thanks to his multi hits, his batting average for this season rose from 201 ri to 28 ri.
With starter Denny Reyes pitching in six innings of two hits, one walk, two strikeouts and no runs, Kim Young-woong hit two-run homer in the top of the fourth inning, and Yoon Jeong-bin hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth inning, Samsung clearly took the lead. Up until the eighth inning, Park Byung-ho's homer in the top of the second inning seemed to be the finishing hit of the day.
Samsung's mound shook from the bottom of the seventh inning when Reyes went down. Lee Seung-hyun, who took over the baton, gave up a walk at the end of the 10th pitch against Oh Jae-il, the leadoff hitter, was the cause of the trouble. Then, Moon Sang-cheol's hit to the left and third baseman Kim Young-woong's catch error drove the bases loaded with no outs, and he hit a timely two-run homer against Kim Sang-soo. Then, in the bottom of the eighth inning, Kim Tae-hoon hit a solo homer over the left-center wall against the leadoff hitter Kang Baek-ho, allowing a 3-4 chase.
Samsung put "save No. 1" Oh Seung-hwan on the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning when its team was leading 4-3. However, the result was a sad ending. After allowing a double against Hwang Jae-gyun, the leadoff hitter, he allowed a walk to Kang Hyun-woo, the pinch hitter, following Kim Sang-soo's sacrifice bunt, and met backup outfielder Hong Hyun-bin to have a two-run come-from-behind walk-off triple in the first pitch. It was the moment when his team suffered a come-from-behind 4-5 defeat.
KT agreed to a large one-on-one trade on April 28 by giving Park Byung-ho to Samsung and receiving Oh Jae-il as a benefit in return. As Park Byung-ho, who lost his footing due to repeated sluggishness, suddenly asked the club to transfer, the KT club pushed for a trade, and Samsung, which was attracted to Park's card, presented Oh Jae-il card, resulting in a big deal between the 38-year-old veteran players.
The two best friends met in 31 days after exchanging uniforms through trade. Unlike Park who had multiple hits, Oh Jae-il had no hit, one walk and one run from three times at bat as he was nervous about meeting with his parents.
However, it was Oh Jae-il who had no hit, not Park Byung-ho who hit a home run. Park left the Wiz Park with a firm look on his face as he watched his former team's finishing ceremony.