Baseball is a psychological game. More than just throwing, hitting, and running, pitchers, catchers, and batters try to use the opponent's psychology to make the atmosphere of the game their own.
Sometimes coaches protest strongly against leaving, raising the morale of players, and leading players or veterans of the team sometimes stimulate opponents with larger gestures than necessary as soon as they are judged to be a match. All of this is part of a psychological operation.
This was also seen in the game between the Samsung Lions and Kiwoom Heroes of the "2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League" held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 30th of last month.
Jang Jae-young was the starting pitcher for Kiwoom. Jang Jae-young got off to a good start in the top of the first inning, catching leadoff hitter Kim Hyun-joon with a fly to center field. However, he started shaking after being hit by a surprise bunt by Kim Sung-yoon. Jang Jae-young, whose control suddenly began to falter against Koo Ja-wook with one out and one base, finally hit Koo Ja-wook's left thigh as his 145km fastball fell out of his hand in the fourth pitch. Koo Ja-wook, who was hit by the ball, headed to the mound, making a gesture to throw a helmet in surprise, and the situation was over as the center and old teammates Lee Ji-young and Lee Won-seok blocked Koo Ja-wook's front.
Like this, Koo Ja-wook slowly walked out to first base. However, Jang Jae-young's expression was clearly embarrassed. With his red face, he took off his hat and looked at first base for a long time, saw Koo Ja-wook's condition and bowed his head to apologize.
Jang is a fireballer who throws 155km and throws a powerful ball on a day when he is scratched. Since Deoksu High School, he has been drawing attention from Major League teams by using fast balls and large curves of mid-150km/h, but he is a pitcher whose control is always a problem. Kiwoom believes that Jang Jae-young's control problem is a psychological problem rather than a problem with the pitching mechanism, and is working on mental management. 온라인카지노
The opposing team, but Koo Ja-wook was also well aware of Jang Jae-young' Of course, it was a situation where he could be angry at the pitch to a place that could be misunderstood, but in fact, there was no need to provoke like this. However, Koo Ja-wook's provocation was a huge success in the result.
Since then, Jang Jae-young has been sent off as a head shot for walking, walking, balk, walking, and hitting Kim Ji-chan in the head. Jang Jae-young lost concentration after Koo Ja-wook's provocation, and eventually failed to pass the first inning and allowed one hit, six outs and six runs in ⅔ innings. The 900 million-armed man, called the future of Kiwoom's mound, pitched the worst as his mentality collapsed.
Meanwhile, Samsung, which already scored six points in the first inning, won 10-6 based on starter Baek Jung-hyun's good pitching of seven hits, one walk, two strikeouts and two runs in five ⅔ innings, winning three consecutive games.