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[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Park Sang-wook = The first game of the Korean Professional Baseball Series (KS, 4 wins in 7 games) was disrupted due to the autumn rain’s back and forth, and eventually, with Samsung leading 1-0 in the top of the 6th inning, it was a suspended game due to rain. ) has become. The first suspended game in the postseason occurred only 11 times in 43 years during the regular season.
The game will resume at 4 p.m. on the 22nd at the same location, and the second game will start one hour after the end of the first game. Since rain is forecast to fall across the country on the 22nd, in the worst case, the suspended game and the KS 2nd game may be held one after the other on the 23rd.
As rain began to fall around 6 p.m., 30 minutes before the game started, the groundskeepers first laid down a tarp. As the rain subsided, the crowd that filled the stadium welcomed the groundskeepers who came out to remove the tarpaulin with applause. However, as soon as the tarp was opened, the rain once again drenched the ground. The folded tarpaulin was laid out again. When the rain stopped and the groundskeepers folded a second tarp and rolled it up in the outfield, it rained again and a huge blue cloth covered the infield again.
As the rain subsided, the KBO secretariat decided to push ahead with the game and pulled up the tarpaulin. Since the game started 1 hour and 6 minutes later than scheduled due to stadium cleanup, such as putting new dirt on the ground and redrawing the home plate line, the KBO secretariat drastically reduced the pre-ceremony event that started with the introduction of the entire players of both teams and introduced only the coaches and starting players. Finished.
Once the rain started to fall, it did not stop and continued to sprinkle throughout the game. Both teams’ starters, James Nail (KIA) and Won Tae-in (Samsung), continued their ‘fight in the rain’. Until the 5th inning, he faced 19 batters and threw 66 pitches, leading a great pitcher match.
In the top of the 6th inning, when Samsung’s attack resumed after cleaning time, Kim Heon-gon broke the balance of 0 with a 134 km/h sweeper driven in the center of Nail at a ball count of 2 balls and 2 strikes and a thunderous first solo shot that fell inside the right pole. ‘One-club man’ Kim Heon-gon, who joined Samsung in 2011, recorded a total of 3 home runs in PS in his personal career, including a home run in consecutive hits in the 2nd PO game held on the 15th.
Nail, which had been impregnable, collapsed with one cannon shot from Kim Heon-gon, who started as the second hitter and left fielder. Shaken Nail walked Lewin Diaz and handed the mound to Jang Hyun-sik. Jang Hyun-sik also allowed a walk to Kang Min-ho, reaching first and second base with no outs.
After the first ball came in during the next batter Kim Young-woong’s at-bat, umpire Park Jong-cheol and the umpires decided that it would be difficult to continue the game due to the rain and declared a halt. The groundskeepers held on to the tarp ring with both hands and ran into the infield for the fourth time that day.
Even considering the drainage system, water was likely to splash around in the outfield where there was no tarp. The game, which started at 7:36 PM after many twists and turns, was eventually stopped at 9:24 PM. After about 40 minutes, the referee examined the ground conditions and concluded that the game could not be continued. The KBO secretariat announced that the game was suspended due to rain while KIA was unable to finish its attack in the bottom of the sixth inning, so it would be held as a suspended game.
Won Tae-in of Samsung secured the winning pitcher requirement by allowing 2 hits, 2 walks, and no runs over 5 innings, while KIA Nail pitched well with 4 hits and 1 run in 5 innings, but was on the verge of defeat.
On this day, Kim Eung-yong, former president of the Korea Baseball Softball Association, who led the dynasties of KIA and Samsung, threw the first pitch. After the first pitch ceremony, former Chairman Kim Eung-yong said, “I will watch from a neutral standpoint,” and added, “Professional baseball reached 10 million spectators this year, but I hope to quickly attract 20 million spectators. To do so, we need to have a stadium that can accommodate more than 50,000 spectators.” “A lot of baseball fields need to be built,” he said.
All 19,300 seats were sold at 2:40 p.m., about four hours before the game started on this day, and tickets for all 12 games of this fall baseball were sold out, with a cumulative attendance of 267,850. The postseason has been sold out for 17 consecutive games since Game 1 of the Korean Series last year.
