SSG Landers lost 1-2 at home against the LG Twins in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 21st. From SSG's point of view, the result of the game was not good, but it was a game that left a regret in the process of defeat.
SSG was dragged to LG 0-2 before the offense began in the bottom of the eighth inning the previous day (21st). Then, in the bottom of the eighth inning, Guillermo Heredia's walk, Choi Jung's double, and Han Yu-seom got a walk, giving him a chance to score a large score with one out and the bases loaded. He succeeded in creating a decisive chance to look at the tie with one hit, and to look at the reversal if the long ball hits. However, a dubious decision occurred here.
LG put Baek Seung-hyun on the mound to escape the crisis of loading the bases with one out, and SSG's Park Sung-han entered the at-bat. And Park Sung-han pulled Baek Seung-hyun's 149km fastball on the fourth pitch to create an assault hit to the first baseman. An unexpected situation occurred in this scene. LG's first baseman Kim Min-sung's flying ball hit the abdomen of the first base lead in Woo Hyo-dong. Woo Hyo-dong's first base umpire was an inevitable hit.
The first base umpire in Woo Hyo-dong initially hesitated without making a significant decision, and then raised both arms and seemed to make a gesture of "foul," but declared a "ball-dead" and later the fourth umpire gathered to talk. As a result, the judges declared that Park Sung-han's ball was a "fair." In response, LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop applied for a video reading of 'fair/foul' to the judges, and the judgment at the reading center was also 'fair'. But a bigger problem later occurred.
KBO said, "I made a fair declaration because the ball passed through the glove of the first baseman. Since then, it has been in an in-play situation while being hit by a referee, he said. "The video reading center stopped playing after the ball was hit by the referee, but even if the referee declared a fair right away, he decided that Han Yu-seom would not have made it to second base, so he took out."
However, this explanation has increased controversy. This is because, despite the lack of guarantee that LG's follow-up play will be perfect, Han Yu-seom "expected" that he would not have made it to second base as if he were looking forward to the future, so he declared out for the first base runner. In response, head coach Kim Won-hyung stormed out of the dugout and protested for a long time, and was eventually sent off.
As a result, it was "the misapplication of the rules." KBO suspended referee Woo Hyo-dong, who caused confusion due to poor game management in the LG-SSG match at SSG Landers Field. It had to be declared in-play by misapplying the official baseball rule 5.06 (c) Boldead (6), but it was declared a Bold, causing confusion in the progress of the game. "Umpire Woo Hyo-dong will not be able to play in the rest of this season after the 22nd." 스포츠토토