He did not win, but he made up for the slump in his previous appearance.
Ryu Hyun-jin of the Hanwha Eagles started Game 10 of the season against the LG Twins of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on the 13th and recorded two hits, two strikeouts and six strikeouts in five innings. The number of pitches was in the order of fastballs (39), curves (23), change-up (11), two-seam (8), and cutter (6), with the highest speed and average speed of fastballs being 149km/h and 144km/h.
Before the game on the day, Ryu had six wins, seven losses and an earned run average of 4.28 in 120 innings in 21 games this season. In the game against the Samsung Lions on Saturday last week, he became the losing pitcher with 12 hits (one homer) and two strikeouts and seven runs in five innings. He shook his head as he suffered a rough hit in two consecutive games following the game against the Suwon KT Wiz (five innings, 12 hits, one homer, three strikeouts and six runs).
Still, the coach’s belief remained unchanged. Before the game, Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon expressed expectations on Ryu’s good pitching, saying, “I think Ryu Hyun-jin will throw well, and I will try to stop him from losing two consecutive games.”
In the top of the first inning, Ryu gave up a walk to Hong Chang-ki, the first batter, and Shin Min-jae, the second batter, threw a ball to five consecutive pitches. However, he filled in the first out count with a fly ball to the left field, then lined up the inning with Austin Dean’s fly ball to the center field and Moon Bo-kyung’s ground ball to the second base.
Ryu entered the top of the second inning with a two-run lead thanks to his batters’ support for scoring runs in the bottom of the first inning, and allowed Park Dong-won to walk with two outs with Oh Ji-hwan’s grounder to shortstop and Kim Hyun-soo’s fly ball to right field. However, Park finished the inning without allowing a run due to Park Hae-min’s grounder to the third base. 토토사이트
He even set a meaningful record in the top of the third inning. He garnered strikeouts from Austin for eight consecutive seasons (2006-2012 and 2024 seasons) with two outs and runners on the first base. This is the fifth time in the KBO league’s history.
Ryu shut out the top of the fourth inning with three outs, and gave a hit to leadoff hitter Park Dong-won at the top of the fifth inning. Before the game on the day, Ryu had a batting average of 0.411. This means that there were many cases in which he failed to overcome the crisis in the middle of the game.
The result was different this time. Ryu faced Park Hae-min at the first base with no outs, and had difficulties leading to a full count match, but took a breather by swinging and striking out Hong. He also struck out his successor Koo Bon-hyuk after a nine-pitch match, and ended the inning by striking out Hong after three pitches. It was Ryu’s last inning.
Although Ryu postponed his bid for his seventh win this season to the next opportunity due to poor performance by bullpen pitchers, he also shook his head when his team lost 2-3. However, he overcame his weakness and showed off his robustness. Ryu’s next start in rotation will be against the Munhak SSG Landers on Wednesday.