KIA Choi Hyung-woo is out of the season, 4 months of rehabilitation from a broken collarbone

Professional baseball KIA, which is in the midst of a fifth-place fight, faced a bad news that Choi Hyung-woo, the main hitter, was out for the season.

The KIA club said today 25th, "Choi Hyung-woo will undergo a clavicle fixation at Gwangju Good Hospital, a club-designated hospital, tomorrow without additional checkups," adding, "The diagnosis name is left clavicle crushing fracture and shoulder joint damage." It will take about four months to rehabilitate," he said.

Choi Hyung-woo tripped over KT first baseman Park Byung-ho's leg while running to first base in the seventh inning against KT in Gwangju yesterday.

In great pain with his left shoulder wrapped around him, he eventually left the stadium in an ambulance. 스포츠중계

KIA has already lost its main batter Na Sung-bum to a right hamstring injury, and Choi Hyung-woo also left due to an injury, putting a red light on the fifth-place competition.

In 121 games this season, Choi Hyung-woo played as if he had forgotten his age with a batting average of 0.302, 17 home runs, and 81 RBIs.

KIA, which has suffered 1 win and 9 losses in the last 10 games, is in sixth place, one game behind SSG in fifth place.

KIA, whose outfield is empty due to the departure of its main outfielder Na Sung-bum from injury and Choi Won-jun's transfer to the Hangzhou Asian Games baseball team, will play the rest of the season without even Choi Hyung-woo.

KIA has to play the most games among the 10 KBO League clubs with 20 remaining games left.