SSG Landers left-hander Oh Won-seok gave his team a valuable victory.
Oh Won-seok started Game 4 of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League against the KT Wiz at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 26th and won his second win of the season in 12 days as he allowed eight hits, one strikeout and two runs in five ⅓ innings.메이저놀이터
Coincidentally, when Oh won his first game of the season, his opponent was KT. Oh, who started Game 3 of the season against KT at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 14th, became a winning pitcher in five ⅔ innings with five hits, one out and four strikeouts and one run. It was the same as on the 12th that the opponent’s starting pitcher was Um Sang-baek, and he took four days off to start.
SSG had to consume a lot of the mound as it played a double header with the LG Twins on the 21st. Also, Robert Duggar (7 runs in 2 ⅔) and Park Jong-hoon (4 runs in 5 innings), who started against Lotte Giants in Busan from the 24th to the 25th, showed below expectations. For SSG, which has to keep its top rank, Oh Won-seok’s good pitching was desperately needed.
Oh continued his cruise in the early days of the game. In the top of the first inning, the batter lineup, which consisted of Cheonseong-ho, Kang Baek-ho, and Mel Rojas Jr., was all out after 10 pitches. In the top of the second inning, he had consecutive hits by Hwang Jae-gyun and Cho Yong-ho after strikeouts by Moon Sang-cheol and Park Byung-ho, but Ahn Chi-young drew a strikeout.
In the top of the third inning, Kim Sang-soo, the leadoff hitter, allowed a walk after six pitches, which seemed to be in a crisis, but he allowed two outs by inducing the follow-up hitter, Cheonseong-ho, to hit a double play. In the match against the follow-up hitter, Kang Baek-ho, he struck out several times.
The batters scored three runs in the bottom of the third inning to create a big inning, and Oh Won-seok also cheered up. After getting a hit by Moon Sang-cheol with one out in the top of the fourth inning, he ended the inning by striking out two consecutive batters, Park Byung-ho and Hwang Jae-gyun. In the top of the fifth inning, after leadoff batter Cho Yong-ho had a hit, he took a breather with a fly ball by An Chi-young and caught a double play by Kim Sang-soo, getting out of the woods by himself.
It was regrettable that the game ended. Oh faced a crisis with no outs and runners on second base due to leadoff batter Cheonseong-ho’s hit in the top of the sixth inning and left fielder Guillermo Heredia’s error, and after Kang Baek-ho grounded out, Rojas hit a timely RBI single. After Moon’s hit, he gave up a timely RBI single to Park Byung-ho in the first and third bases with one out, and had to give up the mound to Lee Rowoon in the end.
However, Lee Rowoon blocked the succession runner from entering with Jang Sung-woo’s strikeout and Cho Yong-ho’s ground ball, and Noh Kyung-eun, Cho Byung-hyun and Moon Seung-won, who followed, blocked KT’s pursuit with one scoreless inning. After the game, manager Lee Soo-yong also praised (Oh) Won-seok, saying, “Even though he started in four days, he faithfully performed his role as a starting pitcher with the least number of runs.”
“First of all, I’m happy that I won the home game. It was my first game in four days, but when I recorded the victory last time, I didn’t have any difficulties because it was four days apart,” Oh said after the game. “I’m aiming for aggressive pitching on the mound this season, and that part was effective today (26th). I’m especially grateful that the batters gave me points, and (Lee) Rowoon, who took the mound after me, prevented the crisis well.”
Oh also said, “I was worried about my poor pace as I played the season last year, but I prepared a lot for this part at the camp. I will try my best to keep up the good pace this season.”