Proving the power of the bullpen amid injuries to starters Dong-ju Moon, Ju-young Son, and Tae-in Won
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Korean team starting pitcher Kwak Bin
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinwook Lee = An evaluation match between the Korean national baseball team and the Cuban national team held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 1st. Starting pitcher Kwak Bin is throwing the ball powerfully in the top of the first inning. 2024.11.1 cityboy@yna.co.kr
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dae-ho Lee = The biggest concern for the Korean national baseball team ahead of its World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12 is the mound.
Moon Dong-ju (Hanwha Eagles), who played a solid role as the national team’s ace in last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Professional Baseball Championship (APBC), was unable to join the national team due to injury, and the shadow of injury to the starting lineup began to loom.
Son Ju-young (LG Twins), a left-handed fastball starting pitcher, and Won Tae-in (Samsung Lions), who was considered the national team’s right-handed ace, were injured during their respective teams’ postseason.
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The Premier 12 group stage will be held in a full league format with six countries playing five games each.
The Korean national team needs at least 4 starting pitchers as there is only one rest day out of the 6 days from the 13th to the 18th, the 17th.
Lee Young-ha’s fight
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinwook Lee = An evaluation match between the Korean national baseball team and the Cuban national team held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 1st. Pitcher Lee Young-ha is fighting back in the top of the 5th inning. 2024.11.1 cityboy@yna.co.kr
So, Lim Chan-gyu (LG) was urgently transfused as a replacement player, but the mound was still an unsolved problem for Ryu Jung-il-ho.
However, when we actually opened the lid, Korea’s bee swarm mound showed sufficient competitiveness on the international stage.
The Korean national team won 2-0 in a friendly match against Cuba held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 1st.
What is more important than the result of the game is the pitching content of the pitching staff.
Korea, which had 8 pitchers on the mound that day, went 9 innings cleanly with 3 hits, 2 walks, and no runs.
Kwak Bin (Doosan Bears), who took the mound as a starter, pitched 2 innings, allowing 1 hit and 1 pitch hit to the body, leaving no runs.
Seohyun Kim on the mound in the 6th inning
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinwook Lee = An evaluation match between the Korean national baseball team and the Cuban national team held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 1st. Kim Seo-hyun, on the mound in the top of the 6th inning, is fighting back. 2024.11.1 cityboy@yna.co.kr
The maximum speed of fastballs was 150 km/h, which was powerful, and he easily faced batters enough to block two innings with just 16 hits.
Rookie Kim Taek-yeon (Doosan), who followed Kwak Bin to the mound, pitched aggressively, throwing only 10 fastballs out of 12 pitches, allowing 1 hit and no runs in 1 inning, and Yoo Young-chan (LG), who pitched in the 4th inning, also 1 hit with only 9 pitches. He finished the inning cleanly with two strikeouts and no runs.
Afterwards, Korean pitchers continued to pitch well.
Lee Young-ha (Doosan) allowed one hit, two strikeouts and no runs in one inning, and Kim Seo-hyun (Hanwha) pitched the first inning with a fastball of 155 km/h, the fastest among Korean pitchers who pitched that day, and blocked the pitcher with three ground balls without getting on base.
Byung-Hyun Cho finished with no runs in the 8th inning.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jinwook Lee = An evaluation match between the Korean national baseball team and the Cuban national team held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 1st. Cho Byeong-hyun, who took the mound in the top of the 8th inning, is happy after finishing the inning with no runs. 2024.11.1 cityboy@yna.co.kr
Kim Si-hoon (NC Dinos), who lasted the 7th inning after fastball pitcher Kim Seo-hyun, was not fast with a top speed of 143 km/h, but continued his scoreless streak with a forkball.
Cho Byeong-hyun (SSG Landers), who appeared on the mound in the 8th inning, recorded 3 outs with only 9 balls, and Park Young-hyun (kt wiz), who came on to end the game that day, cleanly erased the 9th inning as a representative closing pitcher in the league.
In the second game against Cuba on the 2nd, the Korean national team plans to send out pitchers who were not on the mound that day to check their condition.
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