You were right to be the ace of the racket. It was connected to the 151km two-seam 140km folk ball. Chirinos is on the verge of winning for the first time by allowing 2 runs in 8K in 6 innings
Mar 22, 2025
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Chirinos started the opening game against the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd and recorded a quality start of five hits, three walks, eight strikeouts and two runs in six innings. The team was replaced by Kim Jin-sung in the top of the seventh inning with a 9-2 lead, raising the possibility of winning for the first time of the season.
Chirinos is the first starter brought in without renewing his contract with Detrick Ness, who won 13 games last year. He joined the Tampa Bay Rays in 2013 and played for the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins. He pitched in 75 major league games with 20 wins and 17 losses and a 4.22 ERA, and played 30 innings in six games last year, leaving two losses and a 6.30 ERA. In last year's minor league Triple-A, he pitched 110 ⅔ innings as a starting pitcher in 21 games and recorded 10-6 record with a 3.66 ERA.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop highly regarded Chirinos' chances of success. "The main weapon is to throw a pitch, but a pitcher who throws a pitch usually doesn't throw a four-seam well. However, Chirinos is good at throwing four-seam as well, and "And it's different from last year's Ence that he has a fork ball as a crystal ball."
In the exhibition game, he pitched two games and allowed nine hits, two walks, three strikeouts and five runs in eight innings, recording an ERA of 5.63, but manager Yeom's trust remained and the starter for the opening game remained unchanged.
Coach Yeom said, `I have never said a word to Chirinos. He only said, "Nice feature"I said "I said that the slide step was a little slow, but it was fixed as well " he said to Chirinos that there was nothing to fix.
And Chirinos showed Yeom's trust with his skills.
Chirinos got off to a good start in the top of the first inning by striking out leader Hwang Sung-bin with a fork ball. He then handled No. 2 Ko Seung-min and No. 3 Na Seung-yeop with ground balls in front of the second base in succession, ending his first inning in the KBO League with three outs with nine balls.
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He handled the lead Reyes with a fly to left field, but allowed consecutive heavy hits to No. 5 Yoon Dong-hee and No. 6 Jeon Jun-woo, driving them to first and second bases with one out. However, he struck out No. 7 Son Ho-young with a 137km fork ball to make two outs, and handled Yoo Kang-nam with a fly to center field and finished scoreless.
Steady again in the beginning of the third inning. Both No. 9 Park Seung-wook and No. 1 Hwang Sung-bin struck out swinging with folk balls, and ended Ko Seung-min with a shortstop foul fly. He pitched 39 pitches until the third inning.
Was Chirinos' rhythm shaken by the long attack to score four more points in the bottom of the third inning. In the top of the fourth inning, he caught the leadoff Na Seung-yeop with a pitcher ground ball, but Reyes hit a double to left-center. Then, his control was shaken against the right-handed hitters. He gave up a straight walk to Yoon Dong-hee and allowed a walk to Jeon Joon-woo, loading the bases with one out. And Son Ho-young gave up two runs on a left-handed hit. 7-2.
Yoo Kang-nam hit the right field with one out and runners on the first and second bases. The second baseman stopped at third base and loaded the bases with one out again.
However, he regained stability while facing a left-handed batter. He struck out Park Seung-wook on three pitches, treated Hwang Sung-bin with a catcher foul fly on the first pitch and ended the top of the fourth inning without additional runs. Song Chan's RBI double in the bottom of the fourth inning led by 6 points again to 8-2.
In the top of the fifth inning, he struck out Ko Seung-min with a fork ball, caught Na Seung-yeop with a third baseman fly and Reyes with a ground ball in front of the second base, and finished with three outs.
Chirinos, who also came out in the top of the sixth inning, allowed Jeon Joon-woo to walk, but struck out Son Ho-young and Yoo Kang-nam to end the game scoreless. Chirinos, who threw 82 pitches until the fifth inning, threw 21 pitches in the sixth inning alone to finish his first pitching with 103 pitches.
Coach Gyeonggi Jeon said, `I will not pass more than 100 games"Wouldn't you cut it off at about 90?" he said, but the ace threw it to the end until the sixth inning was over, so he eventually passed the 100.
He threw 54 pitches of up to 151 kilometers and only three 150 kilometers of fastballs. He added 27 fork balls of up to 140 kilometers and 19 sliders.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
