Seung Hwan Oh entered and the good swings stopped. That's how it usually went during Oh's seven-year professional career in Asia, when he emerged as one of the world's best relief pitchers, and how it often went during his rookie season with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2016.
So in a way, his game-saving performance in Korea's 11-8 win vs. Chinese Taipei on Thursday in the World Baseball Classic was really just more of the same. But ordinary becomes extraordinary when the stakes rise, and the high-stakes world of late-inning relief is where Oh lives and thrives.