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The most dizzying incident in the history of Jamsil Baseball Stadium

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It was likely the blackout of the floodlights during Game 7 of the 1995 Korean Series between OB and Lotte.
At the time, it was a fierce matchup between OB, who were aiming for their first championship in 13 years as the regular league winners, and Lotte, who had gained momentum after upsetting LG, a powerhouse in the playoffs. The battle was so intense that they traded wins and losses, eventually reaching the final Game 7.
In the early stages of Game 7, OB took the lead following a decisive error by Park Jeong-tae. As reliever Kwon Myung-chul shut down the Lotte lineup, OB held a 4-2 lead, eventually reaching the top of the 9th inning with two outs and no runners on base.
With just one more batter to go to secure the championship, all the OB players were preparing to rush out of the dugout when suddenly, the floodlights at Jamsil Stadium went out.
Since it takes a considerable amount of time to turn the lights back on, the game was suspended for about 30 minutes with only one out remaining.
When Kwon Myung-chul returned to the mound, his shoulder seemed to have cooled down due to the interruption, and he surrendered consecutive hits to Lim Soo-hyuk and Kong Pil-sung.
The next batter, Son Dong-il, stepped up, and catcher Kim Tae-hyung even dropped the ball, resulting in runners on 2nd and 3rd. The game took a very strange turn, reaching a point where a single hit would tie the score.
However, when Son Dong-il weakly grounded out to the pitcher, not only OB but also the KBO office and the Jamsil Stadium management office could all breathe a sigh of relief.
If Lotte had managed to turn the game around and win the championship at that moment, the aftermath would have been truly chaotic, but since the out was recorded, it ended as a mere incident.
Some even raised conspiracy theories about Lotte being favored, noting that Kim Young-sam was the President at the time and the KBO Commissioner was Kim Ki-choon, a master of political maneuvering from the PK region. Regardless, since OB won the championship, those rumors eventually faded away.

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