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Gold Medal-Winning Baseball Star’s Surprise Announcement Leaves Fans Speechless

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Asian Games baseball final held on the 7th
The baseball national team secured the gold medal for the fourth consecutive time.

The closing pitcher for the Korean national baseball team, Ko Woo-suk (LG Twins), has made headlines with surprising news. After winning a gold medal at the Asian Games, it was announced that he had become a father.

Ko Woo-suk, the closing pitcher for the Asian Games finals.

After winning the gold medal, he became a father.

Ko Woo-suk appeared as the closing pitcher in the Asian Games finals. / Yonhap News
 

The Korean national baseball team, led by coach Ryu Joong-il, faced Taiwan in the finals at the Zhangjiang Sports Center in China on the 7th.

Previously, Korea had a match against Taiwan in the group stage on the 2nd but lost 0-4. It was Korea’s only defeat.

Korea had a chance for revenge. In the finals, they faced Taiwan once again. The starting pitchers were the same. At that time, Moon Dong-ju (Hanwha Eagles) became the losing pitcher with 2 earned runs in 4 innings, while Yoo Min-woo pitched 6 innings without allowing any runs and became the winning pitcher.

However, Korea did not suffer a second defeat. The batters performed differently from the previous game, getting on base with walks and hits from the first inning and scoring 2 runs in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead.

Korea was the one who smiled in the finals. With Moon Dong-ju’s 6 innings of 3 hits, 7 strikeouts, and no runs, Choi Ji-min (Kia Tigers), Park Young-hyun (KT Wiz), and Ko Woo-suk took the mound, not allowing a single run.

As a result, Korea has won gold medals in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, 2014 Incheon Asian Games, 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, and now the Hangzhou Asian Games, making it four consecutive gold medals.

Ko Woo-suk wipes away tears while wearing the medal at the award ceremony. / Yonhap News

In addition to winning the dream gold medal, Ko Woo-suk received another happy news on the 8th. After the game, Ko Woo-suk’s wife, Lee Ga-hyun, posted a short message on her Instagram saying, “I said I would post it if he won the gold medal,” along with baby, gold medal, and heart emojis.

Through this, she indirectly revealed that she was pregnant by writing the hashtag ‘baby shower.’ 

This news started gaining hot attention when it was posted on the online community Theqoo titled “LG Ko Woo-suk becomes a dad, Kiwoom Lee Jung-hoo becomes an uncle.”

It has been announced that Ko Woo-suk has become a father. / Lee Ga-Hyun’s Instagram

Netizens showed enthusiastic reactions such as “Let’s go, Korean Ohtani,” “Our team is reserved,” and “It’s hilarious that he’s already drinking Kimchi soup as a baseball talent before even being born, “Congratulations. May the wind’s descendant be born healthy”, “His genes must be crazy,” “Wishing for healthy growth,” and more.

Meanwhile, born in 1998, Ko Woo-suk married Lee Ga-hyun, the daughter of former baseball player Lee Jong-beom, known as the “son of the wind,” in January and received many congratulations.

By. Kang Bora

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