Correspondent Lee Dae-ho = Kim Gwang-hyun (SSG Landers), who has firmly defended the Korean baseball team’s mound in every crisis, stood again on the Tokyo Dome mound.
Kim Gwang-hyun started as a starter in the group stage match against Japan at the 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) held at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on the 10th, recording 2 innings, 3 hits, 2 walks, 5 strikeouts and 4 runs.
Initially, Kim Gwang-hyeon planned to pitch as a bullpen pitcher in the game.
Instead, Koo Chang-mo (NC Dinos) was mentioned as the leading candidate for the match against Japan.
However, when Koo Chang-mo failed to recover his condition right before the opening of the tournament and Korea lost the first edition of the WBC against Australia and was driven to the precipice, Korean baseball eventually reached out to Kim Gwang-hyun again.먹튀검증
Kim Gwang-hyun cleaned up Las Nuuba with a floating ball in center field in the first inning, then struck out Gensuke Kondo and Shohei Ohtani in succession.
In particular, Ohtani, whom Japan is proud of, struck out and took the lead at the beginning of the game.
Kim Gwang-hyun threw only 4 sliders in a row when he scored an advantageous ball count against Ohtani with 1 ball and 2 strikes.
Even in the major leagues, Ohtani, who was patient with Kim Gwang-hyeon’s slider, which was powerful against left-handed batters, could not stand it on the 7th pitch and struck out with a bat.
Kim Gwang-hyun’s reverse fight continued in the second inning.
Last season, Munetaka Murakami, who hit 56 home runs in Nippon Professional Baseball, was treated as a looking strikeout, and Masataka Yoshida was sent to second base with an infield hit and an error by the second baseman.
In the crisis of conceding points, Kim Gwang-hyun struck out Kazuma Okamoto with 3 pitches and struck out Shugo Maki with a missed swing, and passed the second inning without a run.
In the top of the 3rd inning, Yang Eui-ji’s two-run homer and Lee Jung-hu’s timely hit gave Kim Gwang-hyun a three-run lead, but Kim Gwang-hyeon started to shake, perhaps because he had poured in the previous two innings.
He gave up consecutive walks to Sōsuke Genda and Yuhei Nakamura.
After a full-count battle with the next hitter Nutba, Kim Gwang-hyun eventually got a heavy hit and gave up one run.
Kim Gwang-hyun, who gave up another run after being hit by a double by Kondo, the follow-up hitter, eventually passed the mound to Won Tae-in in a crisis of second and third base.
As Won Tae-in failed to prevent the two runners left by Kim Gwang-hyun from entering the home, Kim Gwang-hyun’s own score became 4 points.