This turned around? Check swing controversy.. KIA's crisis escape → Doosan and Cho Sung-hwan even protested

Jun 05, 2025

This turned around? Check swing controversy.. KIA's crisis escape → Doosan and Cho Sung-hwan even protested
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Doosan's Kim In-tae stopped looking down the bat, but he is regretful when the third base umpire declared a check swing strikeout. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.04/



This turned around? Check swing controversy.. KIA's crisis escape → Doosan and Cho Sung-hwan even protested
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Doosan's Kim In-tae stopped looking down the bat, but he is regretful when the third base umpire declared a check swing strikeout. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.04/
There was a dubious decision regarding the check swing. Cho Sung-hwan, acting manager of the Doosan Bears, kicked out of the dugout and protested.

On the 5th, when the KIA Tigers and Doosan of the KBO League clashed in the 2025 season, an ambiguous situation occurred at Jamsil Stadium and at the end of the 4th inning.

Doosan was keeping a close lead of 1-0.




After one out, Kim Jae-hwan hit the right field. Kim Min-seok hit a hit to left-center. While KIA center fielder Kim Ho-ryeong spilled the ball for a while, Kim Jae-hwan and Kim Min-seok took third and second bases.

It's early in the game, but Doosan has a great opportunity to get on the second and third bases with one out.

Acting coach Cho Sung-hwan threw a game-winning move. Kim Min-hyuk put Kim In-tae as a pinch hitter.




Kim In-tae has a batting average of 0.435.

This turned around? Check swing controversy.. KIA's crisis escape → Doosan and Cho Sung-hwan even protested
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Doosan's acting manager Cho Sung-hwan is appealing to the referee about Kim In-tae's check swing with one out and runners on the second and third bases. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.04/
This turned around? Check swing controversy.. KIA's crisis escape → Doosan and Cho Sung-hwan even protested
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Doosan's acting manager Cho Sung-hwan is appealing to the referee about Kim In-tae's check swing with one out and runners on the second and third bases. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.04/
Kim In-tae made a check swing on the 5th pitch in 2 strikes and 2 balls.

The referee asked the third baseman whether he swung or not. The third base referee declared a swing. Kim In-tae couldn't leave the batter's box with a puzzled look on his face.




Acting coach Cho Sung-hwan also complained to the referee for the first time since taking the helm on the 3rd.

Looking at the slow video on the broadcast screen, Kim In-tae's bat was ambiguous to regard as a swing. From Doosan's point of view, it was sufficiently unfair. Lucky for KIA.

Doosan failed to score when its follow-up hitter Park Joon-soon hit a ground ball to shortstop.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.