Kyle Hart (31, NC Dinos) will be the first foreign player in the Korean professional baseball KBO League to win the “fourth gold medal in the pitcher category.” 토토사이트
Hart started the home game against the Kiwoom Heroes at Changwon NC Park on the 4th and won his 13th win (2 losses) of the season with one hit, one run and 12 strikeouts in six innings, sharing the lead in multiple wins with Won Tae-in (13-6, Samsung Lions).
ERA (2.31), strikeouts (169) and winning percentage (0.867) are the lone leaders.
Competition in the multiple wins category is very fierce.
If Hart loses a large number of runs, the ERA could also fall behind James Nail (2.53, KIA Tigers), who has a jaw surgery and is difficult to take the mound in the regular season.
However, if Hart breaks through the competition, he can write the first KBO foreign pitcher record.
Eric Peddy (currently St. Louis Cardinals), who won the most valuable regular season player in the NC uniform in 2023, ranked first in the ERA (2.00), multiple wins (20 wins), and strikeouts (209) last year, but ranked fifth in the winning percentage (0.769).
In 2019, Josh Lindblom (then Doosan Bears) ranked first in the multiple wins (20 wins), strikeouts (189), and winning percentage (0.870), but his ERA was 2.50, giving up the title to Yang Hyun-jong (KIA) of 2.29.
Dustin Nippert (then Doosan) also ranked first in 2016 with multiple wins (22 wins), ERA (2.95), and winning percentage (0.880), but only ranked seventh (142) in the strikeout category.
This means that Hearts are challenging the milestone that foreign aces left in KBO League history have not achieved.
Among domestic pitchers, there are only two pitchers, Sun Dong-yeol and Yoon Seok-min, who were members of the Tigers, who dominated the most wins, ERA, strikeouts, and winning percentage.
Sun Dong-yeol ranked first in four categories: multiple wins, ERA, strikeouts, and winning percentage for three consecutive years from 1989 to 1991.
Yoon Suk-min won four titles in 2011.
However, it was in 1993 that the KBO League began awarding the No. 1 strikeout, so Sun Dong-yeol cannot be called an “official four-time winner.”
The first four wins in the pitcher category is Koo Dae-sung.
Koo Dae-sung (then Hanwha Eagles), who moved between a starter and a closer, won four titles in 1996: multiple wins, ERA, winning percentage and relief.
At that time, Koo Dae-sung played as a “finish throwing long innings” and filled the regular innings to win the ERA title.
If Hearts keep first place in four categories, it will be the third “official four wins in the pitcher category” in KBO league history after Koo Dae-sung and Yoon Seok-min.