“I felt a little bit of my body at the beginning of the season, and I thought I could not achieve 100% performance at the baseball field, and I thought about retirement. If I have a chance, I want to throw it on the mound.”
In the 2010s, when the Samsung Lions dynasty began, the end of the class ended in Daegu Citizen Baseball Stadium (Samsung’s former home stadium). Soon after, when his song ‘Lazenka Save Earth’ flowed, Samsung fans sang to the opposing team, “Oh Seung -hwan ~, Oh Seung -hwan ~” to the opposing team in line with the Earlier Kollerie pitch. The game was already teasing the fans of the fans. Oh Seung -hwan, a stone Buddha, who enjoyed such an era, leaves the ground.
‘Untouchable’ Oh Seung -hwan, but no skills that I thought this season did not come out and decided to retire after worrying. Oh Seung -hwan said at a retirement press conference held at the Songdo Songdo Park Hotel in Songdo, Incheon, “It’s not a sudden retirement. I first talked to the club (retirement) and eventually decided to retire.”
The plan after retirement has not yet been decided. However, Oh Seung -hwan hoped to say goodbye to the fans on the last game mound. Oh Seung -hwan said, “I played the Futures (2nd group) game last week, and I am getting a lot of physical condition. To show my fans on the mound, I want to do everything until the end of the season.” “I still want to throw (the ball). Oh Seung -hwan will accompany the first team this season without registering the entry, and will play a retirement game at the end of the season.
I did not forget to thank the fans for 21 years. Oh Seung -hwan said, “It was because of the interest of many fans that made the result of Samsung’s first pitcher permanent.”
The most memorable time of save was the time when he posted his first 400 saves in the KBO League in 2023. Oh Seung -hwan, who joined Samsung in 2005, played 737 games in the league and recorded 427 saves. He said, “Sava’s record itself means that it keeps the team’s win, so there is no more meaningful save, but it is most memorable when you have 400 saves.”
Oh Seung -hwan chose Lee Dae -ho as the most embarrassing batter in his career and Son Seung -rak as the right one. In addition, KT (KT) Wiz Park Young -hyun, Doosan Bears Kim Taek -yeon, SSG (SSG) Randers Cho Byung -hyun and Hanwha Eagles Kim Seo -hyun were noticed.
Oh Seung -hwan won the League Save King six times with a heavy ‘stone fastball’. He also posted 80 saves in the Japanese professional baseball Hanshin Tigers, and challenged the 2016 US Major League (MLB), leaving 42 saves, 42 holds, and 16 wins and 13 losses for 4 seasons. Even after returning to Korea in the summer of 2019, he won the Save King (44) in 2021. However, since last year, he has noticeably dropped, and he has only stayed in the second group this season. The first -team score played in 11 games and scored eight ERAs (average 8.31) in eight innings without saves. The end of the end of the end is approaching.
By Incheon/Son Hyun -soo, Byunsoo@hani.co.kr