He took the mound in the 9th inning with a 5-4 lead in Game 2 and preserved the win with 1 inning of no runs.
Professional baseball LG Twins closing pitcher Go Woo-seok (25) is having a difficult year.
He was called up to the World Baseball Classic (WBC) national team,
but got injured and suffered from the start of the season. 먹튀검증가이드
Last year’s record of 42 saves and an ERA of 1.48 dropped to only 15 saves and an ERA of 3.68 this year.
In Game 1 of the Korean Series against KT Wiz on the 7th, he took the mound in the 9th inning with the score tied 2-2 and suffered a loss after hitting an RBI double from Moon Sang-cheol.
I wondered if he would recall the nightmare-like memories again, but Go Woo-seok did not collapse.
He took the mound in the top of the 9th inning with a 5-4 lead in the 2nd game held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 8th,
ended the game with 3 batters including Kim Min-hyuk, Cho Yong-ho, and Kim Sang-soo.
Against leadoff hitter Kim Min-hyuk, he boldly used a curveball that he had thrown to Moon Sang-cheol the day before and hit a double,
eliminating the number of strikeouts, while Cho Yong-ho overwhelmed him with a fast ball and struck out.
To the last batter, Kim Sang-soo, he threw two 154 km/h fastballs and induced a weak infield ground ball.
On this day, LG’s starting pitcher Choi Won-tae was kicked out early for allowing 4 runs in ⅓ innings,
then 7 bullpen pitchers combined for 8 ⅔ innings of scoreless innings.
Go Woo-seok took charge of the last 9 episodes.
After the game, Go Woo-seok said, “Yesterday’s game was just yesterday.
Today, I tried to focus and throw.
“The only thing that changed was that I relaxed a little bit, and I liked how (Park) Dong-won threw while only looking at his brother’s mitt.”
Park Dong-won, who hit a 2-run home run in the bottom of the 8th inning that day,
praised Go Woo-seok as the best closer in Korea.
Park Dong-won said, “Yesterday, I was throwing well, but then I missed a curveball and the result was not good.
So I prepared to not go there today.
There is no such good closing pitcher in Korea.
I believed that he would always throw well.”
Then, Go Woo-seok responded to his senior’s praise by saying,
“Dong-won’s home run was more thrilling than the moment when I blocked the 9th inning and kept the team’s victory.
I should have hit Park Dong-won, who hit the home run, from the dugout, but it’s a shame I couldn’t.”
Go Woo-seok said that despite losing in the first game, the team atmosphere was no different from usual.
He said, “When I came out to the stadium, I asked (Kim) Hyun-soo and (Oh) Ji-hwan if they were sick.
(Lim) Chan-gyu told me a lot of good things,” and “During fall baseball,
our team continued to have failures.
“Having experienced failure helped me (recover),” he said.
Go Woo-seok recalled the moment when LG fans chanted the name of the ‘closer pitcher of the first game loss’ when he took the mound in the 9th inning.
Go Woo-seok said emphatically, “Even though yesterday’s results were bad,
I felt like I belonged to the team when they chanted my name today.
That gave me more strength.”
He, a former LG fan who has now secured victory in the Korean Series for the first time, said, “I played baseball through the regular season for this game.
I feel happy.”