He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.

Apr 26, 2025

He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.
The game between Hanwha and KT at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th. KT Cho Hyung-joon is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.25/



He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.
The game between Hanwha and KT at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th. KT Cho Hyung-joon is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.25/
He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.
The game between Hanwha and KT at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th. KT Cho Hyung-joon is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.25/
It was his first appearance in a new stadium, but he threw better as if it were his own stadium.

KT Wiz's So Hyung-joon won the starting match against Hanwha Eagles' Um Sang-baek, who was with him until last year. Cho Hyung-joon started in an away game against Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th, giving up only one hit and one walk in six innings, taking away 10 strikeouts and giving up no points. Eom Sang-baek, who allowed one run in six innings, won by one point. He went down with a 1-0 lead and met the requirements for a winning pitcher, but Son Dong-hyun, who followed, allowed Noh Si-hwan to score a tiebreaking solo shot, failing to become a winning pitcher.

Cho Hyung-joon, who underwent elbow ligament surgery at the beginning of the 2023 season and returned late last year to play as a bullpen pitcher under management, is showing his old form in his original position this season.




He is 2-1 with a 1.16 ERA in five games. He ranks second overall and first in domestic pitchers after KIA Tigers' James Nail, who has a 0.74 ERA.

He recorded 11 strikeouts in the previous match against Kiwoom (19th) and also caught 10 on the same day, marking the first double-digit strikeouts in two consecutive games.

Pitchers are usually sensitive, so they are often affected by small things, but even at the stadium they stepped on for the first time, So Hyung-joon pitched well as if there was no problem at all.




He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.
The game between Hanwha and KT at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th. Before the game, KT starter So Hyung-joon visits Hanwha Shim Woo-joon to greet him. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.25/
He said he was busy throwing strikes, but until the second inning, 6K → 6 innings, 1 hit, and 10K scoreless. 1.16 HYEONGJUN, who became No. 1 in Korea. It's like a match with Sangbaek.
The game between Hanwha and KT at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 25th. KT So Hyung-joon and Woo Kyu-min checking the mound of Daejeon's new stadium. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.25/
However, Cho Hyung-joon's reaction after the game was different. He said it was difficult to adapt because it was a new stadium. Cho Hyung-jun "At first, there was a bit of a difficult part" When the reporters did not believe it, they opened their eyes as if they were unfair and said "It was really difficult. I had to have a good view of the catcher when throwing, but I was just busy throwing strikes because I couldn't catch it well. From the fifth inning, I was able to focus on the catcher, look at the course and throw it as I wanted."

He said it was difficult to adapt, but So Hyung-joon struck out all three batters in the first inning and allowed a superior triple to Lee Do-yoon in the second inning, but all three batters were struck out. In the 3rd and 4th innings, the 3rd and 4th innings were all three out. In the fifth inning, he struck out Lee Jin-young and Lee Do-yoon in a row and handled Lee Jae-won with a ground ball in front of the first base, and in the sixth inning, he caught all three batters with infield ground balls. There was no strikeout in the sixth inning.

Eom Sang-baek knew each other was selected through Kakao Talk the day before and cheered for each other to throw well. Cho Hyung-joon "Before the selection was announced, I asked my brother if he was going to be selected through Kakao Talk, and he said let's throw well to each other."I played catch next to him before the game, but it felt like a blue-and-white match, not a regular-season game," he said with a smile. Um Sang-baek recorded his first quality start since moving to Hanwha with four hits, six strikeouts and one run in six innings.




Regarding his good performance as soon as he returned as a starter this season, he interpreted positively the difficult time he had been injured, saying, "After two years of rehabilitation, I feel like I've gained strength and my tired body is recovering." He said he makes a good record, but he doesn't look at it. "I'm afraid I'll keep thinking about it if I look at the record I'm trying not to keep track of the recordCho Hyung-joon revealed the secret of his good pitching, saying, `I only think about the future games.'



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.