The baseball stadium is in a frenzy because of the “heat wave.” On the previous day, for the first time ever, a heat wave cancellation game was born, and this time, a power outage occurred.토토사이트
Hanwha Eagles and KIA Tigers started the game at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon from 6 p.m. on the 3rd.
A full crowd entered the stadium on this day. 12,000 people gathered and concentrated on the game. However, something absurd happened. The game became an “all-stop” due to a power outage during Hanwha’s attack in the bottom of the second inning.
In other words, as the stadium lost electricity, not only the electronic display but also the lights stopped working. This year, the KBO league is introducing an automatic pitch tracking system (ABS), and related devices were also turned off due to power outages. Eventually, the umpires decided that it would be difficult to proceed with the game normally and suspended the game at 6:33 p.m.
As the game was suddenly suspended, Kia players had to return to the dugout to defend themselves. The crowd of 12,000 spectators looked puzzled by the sudden power outage. “The baseball stadium has lost power. We will start the game as soon as the electricity is turned on,” the umpires asked the spectators for their understanding.
What caused the blackout? “The power outage occurred due to the surging power consumption caused by the heat wave,” said an official from Hanwha. Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon, which opened in 1964, is considered one of the most underdeveloped facilities in Daejeon. “This is the place where many preliminary competitions were held when I was in high school. When I was a manager of the OB Bears (currently the Doosan Bears), I remembered that I had a relationship with this place,” said Kim Kyung-moon, the 66-year-old Hanwha manager.
The blackout lasted only four minutes from 6:33 p.m. to 37 minutes, but it took nearly 30 minutes to restore the game normally. Spectators had no choice but to wait just in the hope that the game would resume. Some spectators cheered as the lights on again at the electronic display and lights came on. As the game was about to resume, players from both teams took to the ground to warm up, and starting pitchers Yang Hyun-jong and Hanwha Ryan Weiss also made practice pitches to prepare to return to the game.
The game was stopped during the attack in the bottom of the second inning with Hanwha leading 3-0. Earlier, Choi Jae-hoon exploded a three-run home run to the left against Yang Hyun-jong, and Hanwha was able to take the lead in three points. Lee Won-seok then stepped down due to a groundout to shortstop, leading to a situation where there were no two-out runners, and as soon as Jonathan Peraza entered the batter’s box, the game stopped due to a blackout.
Eventually, the game resumed at 7:11 p.m. The game unfolded again after 38 minutes of waiting. Peraza entered the batter’s box and Yang Hyeon-jong came back to the mound.
On this day, Hanwha deployed Peraza (designated hitter), Kim In-hwan (left fielder), Kim Tae-yeon (right fielder), Noh Si-hwan (third baseman), Chae Eun-sung (first baseman), An Chi-hong (second baseman), Ha Joo-seok (striker), Choi Jae-hoon (catcher), and Lee Won-seok (middle fielder) as starting pitchers.
KIA sent Yang Hyun-jong out as a starting pitcher, while building the first to ninth batting order with Socrates Brito (left fielder), Choi Won-joon (center fielder), Kim Do-young (third baseman), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Na Sung-beom (right fielder), Kim Sun-bin (second baseman), Byun Woo-hyuk (first baseman), Han Jun-su (captor), and Park Chan-ho (striker).
The two teams succeeded in gaining the upper hand in three consecutive weekend games. Hanwha won 10-3 at the match against KIA in Daejeon on Monday, securing a devastating seven-game winning streak, while KIA was in a four-game losing streak.
Meanwhile, the game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins, which was scheduled to be held at Munsu Stadium in Ulsan on the 2nd, was canceled due to the heat wave. This was the first time that a KBO league regular season game was canceled due to the heat wave.