Moon Dong-ju, fighting, gave back with 159km of shouting...It was Ki-woo who told me not to count on 2K in one inning
Mar 11, 2025
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News of the return carefully delivered by the head coach. It was rain.
Moon Dong-ju was different. He took the mound in an exhibition game against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 11th and recorded no hits, one walk, two strikeouts and no runs in one inning with a light ball of up to 159km.
Moon Dong-ju, who finished the season early last year due to shoulder pain, made his first real appearance since the game against the Doosan Bears on September 3 last year.
Ahead of the game on the 11th, Hanwha coach Kim Kyung-moon said "Moon Dong-ju will come out in the sixth inning today." "I plan to throw about 20 pitches in one inning" "First of all, I'm going to throw 20 more today and if I say I'm going to throw more in the next game, I'm going to proceed. The coaching staff is trying to leave it entirely up to themselves rather than saying, `Throw a lot.'", he explained.
Moon Dong-ju, who won the Rookie of the Year title with 8-8 losses and a 3.72 ERA in his 2023 starting rotation, finished the season with 7-7 losses and a 5.17 ERA in 21 games last year.
He was out of the entry due to shoulder pain at the end of the season, and slowly moved up during spring camp. He was selected as the fifth starter, but it was unclear whether he would join the opening rotation.
Moon Dong-ju proved that the steps he had been taking slowly on the actual stage were not in vain.
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Moon Dong-ju, who threw a fastball of 153km at the first pitch to the leadoff batter Guillermo Herredia, handled the fly ball to the left field with a 142km high-speed slider.
The restraint went up. He threw a 157-kilometer fastball against the subsequent Han Yu-sum, leading to a swinging strikeout. It was taken up to 159km against Ko Myung-jun. Ko Myung-joon, who watched the scary fastball fastball at the plate, exclaimed "Oh~". Ko Myung-joon was walked, but Park Ji-hwan struck out three pitches with sliders and curves to end the inning. The total number of pitches is 19. On this day, Moon Dong-ju threw a maximum speed of 159.7km and mixed sliders (4), curves (3), forks (3), and two-seam (1).
Moon Dong-ju will take the mound once again after two days off. Coach Kim said "After a two-day break, he throws it once. After that, I was going to take two days off and throw it, but it's a night game, so I don't think it'll be good because the weather is cold, so I'm going to take three days off and throw it in the last game."
The third game scheduled to take the mound is against the Lotte Giants in Busan on the 14th and the Samsung Lions in Daejeon on the 18th.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
