Jung Woo-ju 154km gut throw in front of Sajik's packed audience, Hanwha took one back despite the "failure to start nine consecutive games."

Jung Woo-ju 154km gut throw in front of Sajik's packed audience, Hanwha took one back despite the "failure to start nine consecutive games."

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Unfortunately, the Hanwha Eagles lost nine consecutive wins as the first starting pitcher. Nevertheless, the reason why they were able to return to Daejeon with a smile was because fireball rookie Jung Woo-joo (19), who threw a fastball 156 kilometers per hour, threw a gut-wrenching ball.메이저사이트

The Hanwha Eagles came from behind to lose to the Lotte Giants 3-5 in an away game of the regular season of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on Sunday. Having failed to win nine consecutive games, the Hanwha Eagles maintained the second place with a gap of 4.5 games with the top-ranked LG Twins with 15 wins and 12 losses.

In this series, Hanwha failed to win nine consecutive games and paused for a moment. However, it took one precious thing and returned to Daejeon. This is the experience of young pitchers, which Hanwha coach Kim Kyung-moon also cherished. On Sunday, young closing pitcher Kim Seo-hyun (22) garnered three consecutive saves by allowing no run in one inning despite a momentary disturbance in ball control.

Before the game, head coach Kim Kyung-moon said, "I think (Kim) Seo-hyun took the mound for the first time in a long time, so the rhythm didn't match. Still, I think it's amazing to see that he blocked it well. That's how you gain experience. There are coaches and coaches, but the best teacher is your career. What I felt became the biggest teacher during my career."

In the game, which was the first time to win nine consecutive starts, a high school graduate rookie made his first debut successfully. Since the 13th, Hanwha has succeeded in winning eight consecutive starting pitchers for the first time, with Moon Dong-ju, Cordy Ponce, Ryan Weiss, Ryu Hyun-jin, Um Sang-baek, Moon Dong-ju, Ponce and TWICE. The original ace Ryu Hyun-jin took the mound, which raised expectations even more.

Lotte's aggressive lineup collapsed Ryu. With the Hanwha Eagles leading 3-1 at the bottom of the sixth inning, with runners on the second and third bases with one out, Na Seung-yeop replaced Victor Reyes. Here, Na hit a change-up on the first pitch and hit a timely two-run ball to the right, sending the team to tie the game at 3-3 and Ryu's requirement to become the winning pitcher was lifted. Jeon Joon-woo made the game come from behind 4-3 with a grounder to the shortstop, and Hanwha lost again in the bottom of the eighth inning as it failed to overturn.

However, Lotte had no choice but to relax until the end of the ninth inning. The team failed to take advantage of the chance at the bottom of the seventh inning with one out and runners on the first and second bases. Park Sang-won, who took the mound as relief pitcher in the seventh inning, had a hit to right-center to Jeon Min-jae and threw a pitch to Hwang Sung-bin, before being replaced by Jeong Woo-joo.

There were 22,669 full spectators at Sajik Stadium on that day. With games sold out for the first time on weekdays since Aug. 28, 2024 (22,758), the Lotte Giants said that the number of seats at Sajik Baseball Stadium has been increased from 22,665 to 22,669 starting this year. A high school graduate who debuted this year will be nervous.

Even in the tense moment, Jung threw his ball vigorously. The first batter he encountered was Yoon Dong-hee, a national team outfielder who also hit a home run against Ryu Hyun-jin. Jung Woo-joo caught the first strike with a fastball of 152 km per hour, and continued to increase his speed by 153 km and 154 km to drive Yoon Dong-hee. On the last six pitches, he precisely hit a fastball of 154 km per hour to the low point outside the strike zone, making a rookie strikeout. The pitch of the perfect control forced Yoon to look up at the sky and appease his appetite.

Jung Woo-joo then continued to throw fastballs at Ko Seung-min's at-bat, quickly taking advantage of the ball count of two strikes. Ko Seung-min also held out by hitting two fouls, but eventually missed the opportunity to run away by stepping down with a fly ball to center field on a curve that took away the timing of the fifth pitch.

At the same time, Jung Woo-joo continued pitching without losing a point in seven consecutive games, slightly lowering the season's ERA from 3.72 to 3.48. Considering that he failed to set an out count in front of a full crowd of LG Twins in Jamsil on the 25th of last month and collapsed with three runs on one hit and two outs (one walk) in 0 innings, he seemed to have grown a bit more.