'Ballnet-Ballnet-Ballnet, Today is Snow Baseball' Moon Jae-sung's 2nd division → Preliminary FA, 3 walks and 1 point...KIA Outfield with hole, will return to the first team in four days
'Ballnet-Ballnet-Ballnet, Today is Snow Baseball' Moon Jae-sung's 2nd division → Preliminary FA, 3 walks and 1 point...KIA Outfield with hole, will return to the first team in four days
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Professional baseball KIA Tigers Choi Won-joon showed "snow baseball" with three walks in the Futures League.
Choi started as the first right fielder in the 2025 Futures League match against Sangmu at Hampyeong Stadium on Sunday. He had no hit, but had no hit in three times at bat, three walks and one run.
Choi Won-joon hit four fouls in a row against Sangmu starting pitcher Bae Je-seong as a cleanup hitter in the bottom of the first inning. He picked up the 10th ball and walked to get on base. Later, Byun Woo-hyuk and Lee Young-jae also walked to the base, giving them a chance to load the bases with one out, but Choi Jung-yong and Seo Geon-chang were struck out in succession and failed to score.
Sangmu took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning with Kim Jae-sang's one-run timely hit and Park Chan-hyuk's two-run timely hit.
With two outs in the second inning, Han Seung-taek got on base with a hit. Choi Won-joon walked six pitches in the full count. Park Jae-hyun struck out and failed to score again. 안전놀이터
Kia tied the game 3-3 in the third inning with three walks and a sacrifice fly by Seo Geon-chang and a two-run timely hit by Han Seung-taek with two outs. With runners on the first and second bases with two outs, Choi was out after hitting a fly ball to the center field.
With the bases loaded with no outs in the fifth inning when the team was trailing 3-8, Kia chased down two runs with Park Min's pushy walk and Han Seung-taek's sacrifice fly. With runners on the first and second bases with one out, Choi Won-joon picked up a straight walk against Sangmu pitcher Kim Young-hyun to lead the team to a bases-loaded opportunity. Later, Byun Woo-hyuk's pushy walk and Lee Young-jae's two-run timely hit made it to tie the score at 8-8.
Choi came out as the leadoff man in the seventh inning, and struck out swinging at the seventh inning with a full count. Sangmu scored six runs in the top of the ninth inning due to Han Dong-hee's three-run homer, and went on a 14-8 run.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, Park Min was out on a straight hit by the third baseman, and Han Seung-taek was out on a fly ball to the center field. Choi Won-joon ended the game with a fly ball to the first base after two outs in the ninth inning.
Choi Won-joon, who will become an FA at the end of this season, has a batting average of 195 (24 hits in 123 at-bats) in 38 games in the first team with three home runs, 11 RBIs, 14 runs and an OPS of .546.
Choi Won-jun was removed from the first team entry on the 22nd. Choi Won-jun missed an ordinary fly ball in the bottom of the first inning against KT Wiz on the 21st, providing an excuse for a run. Coach Lee Bum-ho replaced Choi Won-joon immediately after the error, and sent him down to the second team the next day due to a reprimand.
Choi Won-joon scored two hits and one point from five times at bat in a game against Lotte's second division on the 24th. He also hit a double. He had one hit in five at-bats for a home run in a game against the Lotte Giants' second tier team on Saturday. If he completes 10 days of re-registration for the first tier team, he can return to the top tier team against KT on June 1.
KIA's outfielder Park Jung-woo suffered a hamstring injury while sprinting to the first base after a sacrifice bunt against Samsung in Daegu on the 25th. He underwent a hospital examination designated by the team in Gwangju on the 26th, and was diagnosed with grade 2 damage. He is expected to leave the team for a long time. Na Sung-bum, the main right fielder, has been away for more than a month due to a calf injury.