World Baseball Festival to be held in 6 years… WBC challenges the semifinals

Korean baseball is once again verified on the world stage.카지노사이트It is at the World Baseball Classic (WBC), a world baseball festival that has returned after six years. The WBC, which was postponed due to Corona 19 after the 4th tournament in 2017, will start a fierce battle from the 8th, starting with Japan, starting with the group stage in the United States and Taiwan.
Korea will play the group stage in Tokyo, Japan in Group B with Japan, Australia, China and the Czech Republic. If they pass the group stage with 1st and 2nd place, the 1st and 2nd place in Group A, which includes the Netherlands, Taiwan and Cuba, and the quarterfinals will be held. The Korean baseball team, led by coach Lee Kang-cheol, is aiming for the semifinals of this tournament.
For Korean baseball fans, the WBC is a special tournament. The Korean national team showed off its potential in the 1st and 2nd tournaments, causing a domestic baseball boom. Park Chan-ho, Kim Byeong-hyeon, Kim Seon-woo, and Lee Seung-yeop joined forces to advance to the semifinals in the first episode. In the 2nd inning against Japan in the final, they unfortunately lost in overtime and finished runner-up.
However, in subsequent competitions, fans were deeply disappointed. 201 years. All 2017 competitions were eliminated in the first round. Here, at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, he suffered a no-medal humiliation by playing an all-time bad fight. As the Korean baseball team, we must restore our honor in this tournament. It is not easy to advance to the semifinals, as the American baseball magazine ‘Baseball America’ (BA) ranked Korea 7th out of 20 countries participating in this tournament. did BA evaluated the WBC game as the ‘top three teams’ of the Dominican Republic, Japan, and the United States, and the ‘top five teams’ of Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Korea, and the Netherlands that threaten them, and said, “The top three teams and the top five teams in terms of power There’s a gap of four teams, but even the top five have the talent to make a difference.”
The Korean national team gathered in Tucson, Arizona, USA on the 15th of last month and started training in earnest, and moved to Osaka, Japan on the 4th. The average age is 29.2 years old, and there are so many new faces that 10 out of 30 players are selected for the first time in the adult national team. Lee Jeong-hoo (Kiwoom Heroes), Park Byeong-ho, and Kang Baek-ho (kt Wiz), who won five batting titles last season, will make their first appearance in the WBC. In addition, the two major leaguers of the national team, Tommy Hyun-soo Edman (St. Louis Cardinals) and Kim Ha-seong (San Diego Padres), will show interest in the combination play.
The national team will embark on a WBC journey starting with the first group stage match against Australia at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on the 9th. On the 10th, they will face Japan, which has the strongest power ever. In the first official practice game against the Nippon Professional Yag Orix Buffaloes on the 6th ahead of the opening of the tournament, they lost 2-4. The national team made a save with 10 hits, but committed 3 errors and only scored 2 runs. The cohesion of the attack also showed a disappointing appearance. Lee Kang-cheol, coach of the Korean national team, said, “The pitchers (condition) are coming up and the hitters are hitting the ball head-on, but the timing was right, so it was a good game.” There will be,” he said.