"Let's be comfortable." "A 36-year-old transfer student who changed his mind," extra-time final hit → He received the gift of his first grand slam "Life game."

"Let's be comfortable." "A 36-year-old transfer student who changed his mind," extra-time final hit → He received the gift of his first grand slam "Life game."

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Oh Sun-jin (36) of the Kiwoom Heroes played his best game. He gave his team two consecutive wins with his most impressive performance since his debut. The secret was "putting down" he realized while thinking about retiring.온라인카지노

Kiwoom won 7-1 with starter Ha Young-min's good pitching of one run in six innings and Oh Sun-jin's grand slam in the visiting game of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 27th.

His performance continued on the previous day. At the match against SSG on Sunday, he played as a big-time defense midway through the game, hit a double in the top of the eighth inning, scored a tying run when Song had a hit, dragging the game to an extended period, and had a finishing hit in the top of the 10th inning to snap his team's three consecutive losses.

He entered the batter's box with one out and two outs in the top of the third inning. Oh hit a grand slam over the left fence by hitting Kim Kwang-hyun's five-pitch 115-kilometer-per-hour curve with a ball count of 2-2. It was his first homer of the season and his first grand slam in 1,036 days since the game against Hanwha in Daejeon (Samsung) on June 26, 2022. It was also his first grand slam. He had 19 homers for 16 seasons. He hit homers once a year.

Moreover, the opponent was ace Kim Kwang-hyun. Oh Sun-jin, who was substituted after losing a point in the fourth inning, and took the batter's box with the bases loaded with two outs, scored his team's seventh point by hitting a pitch. Five RBIs was the most in an individual game. The previous record was four RBIs that he posted in a match against the Munhak SSG on May 9, 2019, as a member of the Hanwha Eagles. He played in a lifetime game.

After the game, head coach Hong Won-ki smiled happily at the veteran's performance, saying, "We brought the atmosphere with Oh Sun-jin's grand slam in the third inning, and we were able to secure the victory with consecutive RBIs and Oh Sun-jin's pushing RBIs in the fourth inning."

Oh, who debuted with Hanwha Eagles in 2008 and played as a one-club man until 2021, moved to the Samsung Lions through a one-on-one trade with Lee Sung-gon, and returned to his former team in 2023 as a free agent for up to 400 million won (1 million U.S. dollars) per year. However, he was excluded from the list of protected players with 35 players last year and was drafted by the Lotte Giants in the second draft, before moving to the team. Oh, who played only 22 at-bats in 26 games, was notified of his release after the end of the season.

At that time, Kiwoom reached out. Oh Sun-jin said in an interview leaving the spring camp in January, "If it didn't work, I was about 80 to 90 percent trying to find out the other side." In that desperate situation, Kiwoom was the only one who expressed his intention to recruit and gladly stamped on the annual salary of 40 million won, which was reduced by 60% from 100 million won last year.

For Oh, this season was like a bonus. "Rather than a competition, I feel happy when I play in every game. I feel happy when I see them in the dugout and cheer for them," Oh said after hitting the final hit on the previous day. "I know my position in the team well and I'm trying to do my best in every game."

However, he gave his team consecutive wins as the lead actor, not as a supporting actor. Oh remained calm even after playing in the life game. "I'm happy for now. I'm happier," Oh said. "I'm not trying to do well, but I'm trying to do it (my role) every day in my position, so I just think 'there will be another day like this'."

It has already exceeded the number of at-bats last year even after playing 22 games this season. Oh, who has played 38 times at bat, is displaying stellar performance with a batting average of 0.313 (10 hits in 32 times at bat) and an on-base plus slugging percentage of 0.405, and an on-base plus slugging percentage of 0.905. Nevertheless, Oh displayed his determination not to overreact.

After his first hit and home run since his debut, he has another hit to commemorate. With two outs 0-0 to go, he swung Kim Kwang-hyun's tricky curveball. This proves that his batting performance is good enough. "Personally, I feel like it's not bad," Oh said modestly. "I try to watch a lot of pitching balls at the batter's box, and I think there are lucky hits as he tries not to die easily."

The secret lies in the mindset. Through the process of contemplating retirement once, I decided to deal with baseball more comfortably. "I'm trying not to be chased this season. I constantly go to the batter's box and compete with the pitcher, but when I try to play baseball that I try to show others, I feel like I'm being chased, so I'm just going to do what I'm going to do this year," he said.

Until then, he was obsessed with showing it. "I think it was because of the desire to do well. I think I felt strongly that I should do better on my way to Lotte in my new team. I regret it last year when I played the season at Lotte," he said. "Baseball is something I do, but I thought I was trying to do too well. This year, I think I should only show what I have prepared at the ballpark, and I am thinking of doing my best."

That is why he does not put much emphasis on his performance on the day. When asked if he feels sorry that the next day is his day off, he said, "(I have no such intention at all. I can recharge my batteries for one day tomorrow before starting the next week," adding, "Puig and Lee Ju-hyung are the players who have to come back and play in the central lineup. I think they will give me strength after taking a break. As we have started winning consecutive games, I hope it will continue for a longer time and generate more synergy if Joo Hyung or Puig come back."