The director could have asked for this. This is Sungwoo's magic. 6 hits and 4 runs in 2 innings → 4 hits in 4 innings and 4 K no-knock. I know how Youngpyo feelsThera
Mar 09, 2025
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KT Wiz's domestic ace Ko Young-pyo (34) started in the opening game of the exhibition game and brightened the outlook for the season with a good pitching of one run (non-earned) in four innings. And after that was veteran catcher Jang Sung-woo (35).
Ko Young-pyo struggled with one run after receiving consecutive hits following an error in the top of the first inning, but continued his stable pitching from the second inning and pitched two hits, three strikeouts, and no runs until the fourth inning.
He threw 52 balls, 21 fastballs with a maximum speed of 134km, 12 changeups, 10 cutters, and 9 curves.
By reducing the proportion of changeups and increasing the proportion of fastballs, he has shown signs of recovery.
Jang Sung-woo's lead changed Ko Young-pyo.
Ko Young-pyo had six hits (one home run) and one strikeout and four runs in two innings in a practice game against the KIA Tigers in Okinawa, Japan on the 3rd.
And LG, who will meet on this day, is a strong team to Ko Young-pyo. Ko Young-pyo has pitched in five games (four starts) against LG in the past two years, lost two games without a win, and was not good with a 瑢Α of 7.83.
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Jang Sung-woo said, `Young-pyo's change-up has been difficult as he has not been caught in the strike zone since the ABS was implemented last year. It was especially hard to deal with left-handed hitters"When I went to Japan in winter, he worked out harder and had more worries than anyone else. I've thrown sliders (cutters) since then, but I'm trying to increase the weight than changeups."
Because change-up, Ko Young-pyo's main weapon, is so well known, hitters often prepare for change-up in time recently. Jang Sung-woo "The change-up fit well again today. In the first inning, (Moon) Bo-kyung (right-handed hit) and (Kim) Hyun-soo (right-handed fly) were all change-ups. He said, "It's good to change the pattern after the first inning, throw a lot of high fastballs on the left-handed batters and throw sliders high." "I kept talking to Young-pyo until the fourth episode, and he said he knew how to go."
Ko Young-pyo, who threw six changeups in the first inning, was reduced to one in the second inning, two in the third inning, and three in the fourth inning.
Jang Sung-woo, who solved the ace's troubles, also showed a shot in batting. He hit a come-from-behind two-run shot over the left fence from LG's first starter Yoni Chirinos, who was playing well in the bottom of the fourth inning when he was trailing 0-1. I did one thing as the fourth batter. Jang Sung-woo said, `It was a ball that ran out of the Chirinos' ball, but when I cut it, I remembered the data that the fastball was thrown to a high fastball, and I had it in my head, but a high ball came and hit it in time to make it a home run.'
Jang Sung-woo, who signed an FA contract for a total of 4.2 billion won over the past four years in 2022, is the last year of his contract. Jang Sung-woo is becoming an indispensable center of the team as he becomes the main catcher, the fourth batter, and the captain.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
