"KKKKKKK" What more should the 23-year-old left-hander do, a losing pitcher despite six innings of good pitching of two runs...9th place batting average. What should I do
"KKKKKKK" What more should the 23-year-old left-hander do, a losing pitcher despite six innings of good pitching of two runs...9th place batting average. What should I do
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Kim Jin-wook (23) of the Lotte Giants in professional baseball showed a powerful pitch in his first appearance of the season, but he was caught in a loss.메이저놀이터
Kim Jin-wook started the game against SSG Landers in the "2025 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League" at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 26th and recorded four hits (one home run), four walks, seven strikeouts, and two runs in six innings.
Kim Jin-wook, who took the mound in the bottom of the first inning, allowed leadoff hitter Jihoon Choi to score the first run. Jung Joon-jae also had a hit and was on the verge of first base with no outs, but he caught Oh Tae-gon with a fly ball to the second base and induced Guillermo Herredia to hit a double play to the third baseman, ending the inning without additional runs.
Kim Jin-wook, who struck out Ha Jae-hoon, the leadoff batter, with a swing and miss in the second inning, was hit twice by Park Sung-han. Lee Ji-young struck out again, but allowed a walk to Ko Myung-joon and a timely RBI single to Park Ji-hwan. Jihoon Choi got through the crisis again by hitting a ground ball to the second base.
In the third inning, Kim Jin-wook handled the center batting order of Jung Joon-jae, Oh Tae-gon, and Eredia as three outs and three outs. In the fourth inning, Park gave up a walk to Park Sung-han with one out, and Lee Ji-young's walk faced a crisis with two outs and a runner on the second base, but he escaped the crisis by catching Ko Myung-joon with three strikeouts.
Kim Jin-wook, who neatly blocked the top batting order leading to Park Ji-hwan, Kim Jihoon Choi and Jung Joon-jae in the fifth inning, walked leadoff hitter Oh Tae-gon in the sixth inning, but caught Heredia with a foul fly at the first base and blocked Oh from stealing second base. Ha Jae-hoon allowed Park Sung-han to get on base again with a walk, but ended the inning without losing a point by striking out. He handed over the mound to Park Jin-young in the seventh inning. Lotte lost 1-3 despite Kim Jin-wook's good pitching.
With 94 pitches, Kim used sliders (43), fastballs (32), change-up (11 pitches), and curves (8 pitches). The maximum speed of fastballs was 145 kilometers per hour, and the strike rate was 65.0 percent.
Kim Jin-wook, who joined Lotte as a first-round pick in the second round of the 2021 rookie draft, is a left-hander with 12 wins, 16 losses and a 5.87 ERA in 123 games (219 ⅓ innings) in the KBO League. Although he has not shown as much performance as expected, he has raised expectations by pitching four innings of one hit, one strikeout and five strikeouts in one exhibition game this year, and achieved a quality start (less than three earned runs in six innings) in the game.
However, Kim had no choice but to become a losing pitcher despite his powerful pitching. Lotte's batters were tied to the mound and managed to score only one point. Lotte's batters had seven hits, but failed to display concentration at the point where they could score. Hwang Seong-bin played two hits and one stolen base from four times at bat, but this did not lead to a goal.
Lotte had a rough start to the season by garnering one win and three losses. It shares the seventh position in the league with Doosan, Hanwha, and Kiwoom. To turn the situation around, the team's batting average of ninth (.226), home run of ninth (0) and OPS of ninth (.551) must revive. Attention is focusing on whether Lotte's batters, who are struggling at the beginning of the season, will be able to regain vitality and help pitchers.