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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. LG starter Lim Chan-kyu is pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/ |
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. Lim Chan-kyu points to catcher Park Dong-won after ending the inning by striking out three batters in a row with nine balls in the top of the fourth inning. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/ |
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. Lim Chan-kyu, who finished pitching in the bottom of the seventh inning, is smiling broadly. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/ |
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Ahead of this season, LG Twins manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said, "I've been in charge of LG for 3 years, and foreign pitchers are the best. I hope Chirinos and Hernandez will win about 30 games together."," he said, expressing anticipation.
However, domestic one-two punches Lim Chan-kyu and Son Joo-young are leading the LG mound in the beginning to create the team's No. 1 spot.
Son Joo-young and Lim Chan-kyu became winning pitchers in the week-on-week game against the Kiwoom Heroes and reported their third win. Son Joo-young had five hits in seven innings in the game on the 8th
He allowed one run with five strikeouts with no four outs. He played seven innings even while the team scored 10 points until the third inning, fulfilling his responsibility as a starter on Tuesday to minimize bullpen consumption. He has a 2.25 ERA with three wins and no losses.
On the 9th, the next day, LG lost 0-4 to Kiwoom starter Rosenberg, dedicating the record of strikeouts to all starting batters. So the game on the 10th was important, but Lim Chan-kyu led his team to a 7-3 victory by allowing five hits (one home run), no four outs, five strikeouts and one run in seven innings. Lim Chan-kyu recorded his first shutout victory against Hanwha in Jamsil on March 26, his first appearance, and continued to win against Kiwoom following the KT match. The ERA is only 0.83.
Both have won three games in their third game, meaning they have become winning pitchers in all games. "I am No. 1 with multiple wins." SSG closer Cho Byung-hyun is also on top with three wins, with only Lim Chan-kyu and Son Joo-young as starting pitchers.
In terms of ERA, Lim Chan-kyu is ranked second and Son Joo-young is ranked eighth. It can be said that he is continuing his overwhelming pitching.
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 8th. Starting pitcher Son Joo-young is pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.8/ |
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 8th. Starting pitcher Son Joo-young is pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.8/ |
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. LG won the game 7-3. Winning pitcher Lim Chan-kyu is coming out to the ground with Son Joo-young. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/ |
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Son Joo-young, who was a full-time starter for the first time last season with a 9-10 record and a 3.79 ERA, is showing more mature pitching this season. With fast fastballs, sliders, fork balls, and curves over 150km, he leads the game against batters with the same repertoire as last year, but with a more refined curve.
Lim Chan-gyu still shows the 'final king' of the control of the level using the constraint car. Although it is a fastball in the early 140km range, it increases the speed of the fastball with a changeup of 120km and a curve of 100km. Along with good ball control, tunneling is also good, forcing batters to be deceived. If you throw a 140km fastball following a 97km curve, the fastball will inevitably be felt much faster than the usual fastball.
LG's first starter Yoni Chirinos started quality in all three games, pitching well with two wins and a 2.37 ERA, but Hernandez pitched regretfully with eight runs in ⅔ innings and four runs in five ⅓ after pitching seven innings of one hit and no runs in his first appearance against Hanwha.
Until now, Korean one-two punches have continued to pitch much more stably than foreigners' one-two punches. LG's most joint wins in Korea's one-two punch were 36 made by Kim Tae-won, who won 18 Sanghoon Lee and 16 in 1994. Kim Sanghoon Lee (20 wins) and Kim Ki-bum (13 wins) ranked second with 33 wins in 1995. Will Lim Chan-kyu and Son Joo-young be able to approach the records of legendary seniors.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
