KT manager Lee Kang-chul met with reporters ahead of the second game of the season against Samsung in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 24th and recalled Park Young-hyun's pitch the previous day.
Park Young-hyun took the mound as a relief pitcher in the opening game against Samsung the previous day and became a losing pitcher in the struggle for three hits, two walks, one strikeout and four runs in the first ⅓.
Park Young-hyun took over the baton in the ninth inning with the score tied 2-2. He got off to a clean start. Starting with Kang Han-ul's strikeout with a swing and miss, he caught Kim Young-woong with a fly ball to the left field and Kim Ji-chan with a grounder to the third base to end the inning easily. He pitched a fastball and a change-up two-pitch to complete the ninth inning with 10 pitches.
Was it too much to throw multiple innings from the opening game? Park took the mound in the 10th inning of extra time when the game was still tying 2-2, and allowed consecutive hits against Koo Ja-wook and David McKinnon with one out. Afterwards, he deployed Kang Min-ho to the fourth base on an automatic basis to seek full base operation, but gave up a walk to Ryu Ji-hyuk after being hit by a timely RBI single against Kim Hyun-joon as pinch hitter. Park boldly hit a strike in the crisis to secure the finishing touch after three years since his debut, but failed to display his strengths on the day.
Park finished the game unfortunately as he was replaced by Kang with the bases loaded with one out in the 10th inning when his team was losing 2-4. The number of pitches he pitched was 23. Then, Kang made a timely two-run hit to Kim Young-woong, leading to the bad luck of the two successors. It was the moment when Park's ERA soared to 27.00.
"I'm not sure if I'm still up on pace. I saw a lot of mistakes. Maybe it's because I pitched two innings, but I had no choice but to throw two innings under the circumstances yesterday," Lee said. "I think I'll come up while playing the car game. I just lost one game."
The team lost 2-6 to Samsung, but earned some income as well. Returning MVP Mel Rojas Jr. fired his best shot of the season, and free agent Suki Beop-ju announced the beginning of the rebound by allowing one hit, one strikeout and no run during the first inning.
"It was worth waiting for Rojas. Without him, I would have been in big trouble," Lee said. "I tried to let Soju and Lee Sang-dong be the left-handed hitter, but Soju got better than I thought. If the players I used to play against come up well, I can go stably."
Meanwhile, KT has set up a lineup of starters in the order of Bae Jung-dae (center fielder), Kim Min-hyuk (left fielder), Mel Rojas Jr. (right fielder), Park Byung-ho (first baseman), Kang Baek-ho (designated hitter), Hwang Jae-gyun (third baseman), Jang Seong-woo (catcher), Cheon Seong-ho (second baseman), and Kim Sang-soo (striker) to welcome Samsung foreign pitcher Denny Reyes. The starting pitcher is Um Sang-baek.
BY: 안전놀이터 추천