Choi Hyung-woo, 3 Hits Including Home Run, Oldest MVP of Professional Baseball All-Star Game
Nanum, Dream defeats, 4 wins, 4 losses… Box office hit, Stars’ Feast also sold out for 3 consecutive years.
Living Legend' Choi Hyeong-woo (KIA Tigers) was selected as the 'Star of the Stars' at the KBO All-Star Game.
Choi Hyeong-woo started as the 6th designated hitter for the Nanum All-Stars (KIA, LG Twins, NC Dinos, Hanwha Eagles, Kiwoom Heroes) in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO All-Star Game held at Incheon SSG Landers Field on the 6th and had a great performance with 3 hits, 2 RBIs, and 1 run in 4 at-bats, including a solo home run in the 2nd inning.
Choi Hyung-woo swept 19 out of 21 votes in the reporters' vote for Mr. All-Star (MVP), overwhelmingly beating Austin Dean (LG, 2 votes) and being selected as the MVP. 무료슬롯사이트
Choi Hyung-woo, who was selected as Mr. All-Star at the age of 40 years, 6 months, and 20 days, also set the record for the oldest MVP of the All-Star Game, beating Lee Byung-gyu (current Samsung 2nd team manager, 36 years, 8 months, and 28 days at the time) in 2011.
He received 10 million won in prize money and a trophy.
Nanum All-Star defeated Dream All-Star (Doosan Bears, Samsung Lions, SSG Landers, Lotte Giants, KT Wiz) 4-2 with Choi Hyeong-woo's performance.
Nanum All-Star won for the third consecutive year, tying the record with 4 wins and 4 losses.
KBO used to hold All-Star games as West-East All-Star and Western-Eastern All-Star, but changed the team name to Nanum-Dream All-Star in 2015 to avoid regional competition.
The winning Sharing All-Star received a prize of 30 million won.
Ryu Hyun-jin (Hanwha), who participated in the KBO League All-Star Game for the first time in 12 years, pitched a perfect inning as a shared starter and became the winning pitcher, receiving the Outstanding Pitcher Award (prize money of 3 million won).
Ryu Hyun-jin, who received the Outstanding Pitcher Award for the third time in the All-Star Game following 2008 and 2012, said after the game that day, "I had a great time after a long time," and "I will prepare thoroughly for the second half of the season from now on."
Dream All-Star David MacKinnon (Samsung), who had 2 hits, 2 RBIs, and 1 run in 3 at-bats including a home run, won the Best Batter Award, and KIA's Na Sung-beom won the Best Defense Award (both with a prize of 3 million won).
LG Manager Yeom Gyeong-yeop, the commander of the Nanum All-Stars, won the Winning Manager Award (prize money of 3 million won), and Dream All-Star Hwang Sung-bin (Lotte) won the Best Performance Award (prize money of 3 million won).
Hwang Sung-bin appeared on a motorcycle in the bottom of the 3rd inning dressed as a delivery rider, causing an uproar.
After hitting an infield hit, he caught everyone's attention by making a provocative move at first base that seemed like he was going to steal, but not quite.
He did this move in the game against KIA in March, which created various memes (internet popular content).
Nanum All-Star opened the scoring in the top of the second with a solo home run over the center field by leadoff hitter Choi Hyeong-woo, and then in the top of the third with two outs and a runner on second base, Austin exploded with a two-run homer over the right field wall after Kim Hye-seong (Kiwoom) hit a double over the center field wall, making it 3-0.
Dream All-Star’s MacKinnon hit a two-run homer over the right field wall off Kim Jae-yeol (NC) in the fourth to start the chase.
Nanum All-Star scored another run in the top of the eighth with a 3-2 lead.
Leadoff hitter Austin hit a double to the right of right field, and Choi Hyeong-woo, who came to the plate with one out and a runner on second base, produced a right-field RBI single to seal the victory.
On this day, players from 10 teams entertained fans who filled the stadium with various performances.
Won Tae-in (Samsung), the 'Blue Blood Man', caught the attention of the audience by going up to the mound with a ringer filled with blue liquid, and Kim Min of KT threw the ball dressed as Ari from the cartoon 'Dr. Slump' who resembled himself.
Austin, whose childhood dream was to be a pizza deliveryman, came out holding a 'real pizza' dressed as a pizza deliveryman and made the audience burst into laughter.
LG Park Dong-won cosplayed as an album artist of actor Kim Kwang-gyu who resembles him.
