Breaking Park Gun-woo's 'record' stamp without a sound
Park Gun-woo reached the 1,200-hit plateau in his career against the Sasik Lotte Giants on March 23. He was two hits shy of the milestone before the game, but pounded out three hits to reach the 83rd all-time milestone. In the fourth inning, he pushed a forked ball off Lotte starter Na Gyun-an, and in the sixth, he pulled the same pitch for a single to left field. SBS Sports commentator Lee Jong-yeol said, "He bats according to the situation. He's a very smart hitter," said SBS Sports commentator Lee Jong-yeol. Just four days earlier, he had reached 100 career home runs. In the bottom of the seventh inning of a 1-5 home game against the Samsung Lions on Sept. 19, Park took a seven-pitch fastball from Samsung reliever Lee Seung-hyun over the right field fence. It took him 3674 days to reach triple digits in home runs since April 27, 2013, when he hit his first career home run. Coincidentally, all of the games in which he reached the 1,200-hit, 100-homer plateau came in te