1st and 2nd place in active home run, Uta Geopo Duo, will the WBC national team reap the beauty?

 Reporter Oh Sang-jin = Will Choi Jeong (36, SSG Landers) and Park Byeong-ho (37, kt Wiz)’s last dance of the national team have a happy ending?

Choi Jeong and Park Byeong-ho, who are training for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) national team, are showing good performances in the recent evaluation match. On the 17th (Korean time), Choi Jung-eun fired a left-handed solo shot against Choi Seong-young in the NC Dinos game, the first evaluation match for the national team. Park Byeong-ho also helped the national team win 8-2 with multi-hits. Park Byeong-ho also showed off a hot hitting feeling with 2 RBIs against the KIA Tigers on the 20th.

Choi Jeong and Park Byeong-ho, who were placed in the cleanup in the two evaluation matches, are highly likely to play a key role in the WBC tournament as well. Park Byeong-ho, who became the only professional first baseman due to Choi Ji-man’s failure to join, and Choi Jeong, the only professional third baseman among infielders, played a bigger role in both offense and defense.

Choi Jeong (429 home runs) and Park Byeong-ho (374 home runs), who are right-handed hitters representing the KBO League both in name and reality, are recording the first and second place in the career home runs side by side. Looking at all-time records, only Lee Seung-yeop (467 homers) is above the two players. However, Choi Jeong and Park Byeong-ho failed to live up to their names in international competitions. 안전놀이터

Choi Jeong and Park Byeong-ho performed sluggish side by side in the 2019 Premier 12 competition, where they most recently wore the Taegeuk mark. Park Byeong-ho, who came out as the built-in 4th hitter, failed to live up to his trust and was sluggish with a batting average of 0.179 (5 hits in 28 at-bats) and 2 RBIs in 8 games. Choi Jeong-eun was pushed by Heo Gyeong-min and Hwang Jae-gyun, and only played in 4 games (2 starts), and in limited opportunities, he recorded 2 hits in 8 at-bats and no RBIs.

Choi Jeong and Park Byung-ho, who were selected for the national team again after 4 years, are highly likely to mark the last Taegeuk mark at this WBC tournament. The two players, who were the motives for the first nomination in the 2005 draft, are now in their late 30s. Although his skills have not rusted enough to compete for the home run title, it is difficult to promise the next international competition. Attention is focusing on whether the two giants dreaming of the last dance will be able to overcome the sluggishness of the last international competition and lead the national team to good results with a cool home run in the WBC.

 Reporter Oh Sang-jin = Will Choi Jeong (36, SSG Landers) and Park Byeong-ho (37, kt Wiz)’s last dance of the national team have a happy ending? Choi Jeong and Park Byeong-ho, who are training for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) national team, are showing good performances in the recent evaluation match. On the 17th (Korean time),…