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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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"You have to throw like this even during the regular season."
Lotte Giants manager Kim Tae-hyung was cool-headed. Lotte left-handed starter Kim Jin-wook showed a sour reaction to good pitching. He asked me to show him this pitching during the regular season as well.
Kim Jin-wook started the exhibition game against the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th and showed good pitching with one hit, one out and five strikeouts in four innings. The first, third and fourth innings ended with three outs. Only in the top of the second inning, he was in crisis, which was also blocked without allowing a run.
In the top of the second inning, he sent out a hit ball to the leader Moon Bo-kyung, and struck out Moon Jung-bin with a swing and miss, but Song Chan-eui hit left-handed, putting him on the verge of a crisis with one out and runners on first and second bases. However, he finished the inning by catching Koo Bon-hyuk with a fly to right field and Lee Joo-heon with a ground ball in front of third base.
Kim Jin-wook, who sprayed a total of 45 balls, tied the LG lineup tightly by mixing 18 fastballs with up to 145km, 15 sliders, 8 curves, and 4 changeups.
LG deployed six right-handed batters, including Austin Moon Jung-bin, Song Chan, Koo Bon-hyuk, Lee Joo-heon, and Choi Won-young, against Kim Jin-wook, but failed to produce significant results. After two strikes, he struck out with changeups and sliders, which was overwhelming.
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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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| The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. Lotte Kim Jin-wook is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.10/ |
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After two scoreless innings against the Zhongxin Brothers in Tainan, Taiwan on the 18th of last month, and three scoreless innings against the Softbank Hawks in the Miyazaki Koochun League on the 26th, he has been scoreless in three games and nine innings.
Expectations for the regular season are rising, but head coach Kim was cool-headed. He emphasized that the current aggressive count fight should be held in the regular season as well.
Manager Kim said, "Change-ups and sliders after two strikes were good last year as well"In the end, the results will come out depending on how you do the count fight."
"Yesterday was an exhibition game, so it was a count fight"If you lose the count fight, it's hard to win. Even if you get hit like yesterday, you have to go in aggressively. Then the result is fine."
Park Se-woong, the Korean ace, made the same order. Director Kim said "It's the same as Park Se-woong. Everyone emphasized that the count fight is important, but the count fight is especially important for the two of them."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
