KBO confirmed the reason for the exit of the Yumnyang batch machine by shouting time after the foul correction vs. play
Apr 11, 2025
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LG Twins manager Yeom Kyung-yeop was sent off for swearing while protesting the decision. Coach Yeom then approached the referee, Lee Young-jae, the first base referee, and even fought with him in person.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, trailing 1-2 at home against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on the 11th, Lee Joo-heon's third base hit occurred.
Doosan's third baseman Kang Seung-ho made a diving catch on Lee Joo-heon's laundry line and dropped the ball on the ground. At this time, he thought Moon Sung-joo, the first baseman who played second base, was caught, so he returned to first base, and Kang Seung-ho caught the ball again and threw it to second base to force out. Lee Joo-heon jumped to first base quickly and did not lead to a double play.
Moon Sung-joo thought he was out and tried to enter the dugout. But then a new situation arose. Doosan players thought Kang Seung-ho caught and Lee Joo-heon was out, and threw the ball back to first base to get Moon Sung-joo out, who fell from first base. Then, Moon Sung-joo also went back to the first base and it became a strange situation where Lee Joo-heon and Moon Sung-joo all stepped on the first base.
But this time, Lee Joo-heon returned to the batter's box with the bat again. Suddenly, I wondered if the ball was a foul. If it's a foul, the game resumes with one out and one on the first base.
Then Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop came out of the dugout. The referee explained to coach Lee and adjusted the position of LG players again. The conclusion was the first situation where Kang Seung-ho dropped a ball and Moon Sung-joo was forced out of the second base and became a first base with two outs. Lee Joo-heon went back to first base, and Moon Sung-joo headed to the dugout.
Then this time, coach Yeom Kyung-yeop came to the ground. He raised his arms and protested to the judges with a furious look on his face. It is said that the referee declared it a foul. The judges then raised their arms low and seemed to explain that they were declaring a ball dead, not a foul.
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Then manager Yeom got even angrier and eventually went to referee Lee Young-jae to deploy. Recently, the coach and the referee rarely bumped into each other, but Yeom crossed the line.
In the replay of the broadcast, Kang Seung-ho caught the ball and dropped it in the fair area, and Kim Gap-soo's third base referee was accurately caught judging it as fair.
LG's explanation was that the third base umpire first declared a fair, but Kang Seung-ho dropped the ball and then raised his arms. So manager Yeom thought it was corrected with a foul, but the referee's explanation was not a foul, but a time, that is, a time when the play was all over. Coach Yeom explained that when the referee asked if it was okay to declare the time when the double play was made, he was angry because he said Lee Young-jae would be the referee.
Referee Choi Soo-won, who was on standby after the game, explained the situation to the reporters at the time. Judge Choi said, `When Kang Seung-ho caught the ball and dropped it, the third-base referee declared a fair, and there was no further follow-up play after throwing it to second base to force out, and the batter was already safe at first base, so the referee declared the time then.' `The referee cannot declare the time during in-play.' Kwon Young-chul, the second base umpire, also said "I declared a time after declaring a force-out at second base and checking if there was a follow-up play."
KBO said it obtained and checked the screen containing the entire situation after the game, and confirmed that the batter stepped on the first base and the referee declared the time after the play was over.
Coach Yeom is likely to have judged that the play is in progress in the scene where the umpires decided that the play was over and declared time.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
