If you throw this well with a 97km curve, you'll be playing baseball until 40. I throw really hard. It's not an easy life.

Apr 10, 2025

If you throw this well with a 97km curve, you'll be playing baseball until 40. I throw really hard. It's not an easy life.
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/



"I'm throwing really hard."

When I won 14 games in the 2023 season, I was wondering if I was lucky. Ahead of the FA, he seemed to have hit the jackpot because he was drunk on a powerful 'FAoid'.

Then he became a 10-win pitcher again last year. Until then, it was about 'Now I've got a little bit of a knack.




This year is the `super jackpot.' The first shutout against the Hanwha Eagles. In my first experience of life, I thought 'That was lucky, too' However, he has taken the mound three times since the opening, and it is a victory. On the 10th, against the Kiwoom Heroes, he made a perfect pitch with one run in seven innings with a complete control of his performance as if he had reached the state of God.

On the day, the maximum speed of his fastball was only 144 kilometers. If it's average, it's fine. It was the best. The average is 141 kilometers. In an era when most pitchers throw 150 kilometers on average, it is a mystery that they are selected in the rotation of the No. 1 team. The curve recorded a minimum of 97 kilometers. If you look at it, it looks like a local baseball 'Arirang Ball', but the angle and control of the ball are now a state of art.

I'm sorry for the batters, but now it gives the impression of 'Playing with '. He throws the ball too easily like a person who is good at baseball.




If you throw this well with a 97km curve, you'll be playing baseball until 40. I throw really hard. It's not an easy life.
LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. Lim Chan-kyu, who handled Kim Gun-hee with a ground ball to second base with two outs and a runner on first base in the bottom of the seventh inning, is showing off his teeth. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/
When asked if he needed a nickname or nickname suitable for his current style, Lim Chan-gyu said, "It's not something I can decide. There are many nicknames. But baseball master, when I hear these words, I feel really good. I feel like I have my own color,' he said with a smile.

The reality was that he was a pitcher who expected a quality start at best, but now he gives me the belief that if he comes out, he will stop more than seven innings with a minimum score. Lim Chan-kyu said "What I've been thinking since last year is that I only focus on throwing a ball without thinking about anything else. That's how it grows little by little. Even if there is a crisis, it does not shake if you only focus on one ball. Pines pitcher's fate is the pressure to produce a good record in every game. This is because if you shake a little, you'll hear 'Guwon'. My conclusion is not that evaluation or gaze on me is important, but that I focus only on what I can do."

If you throw this well with a 97km curve, you'll be playing baseball until 40. I throw really hard. It's not an easy life.
LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. LG starter Lim Chan-kyu is smiling broadly after finishing the first inning without losing a point. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/
The highlight is that he threw four slow breaking balls in a row against Park Joo-hong in the sixth inning of a crisis, and hit the last 142km fastball in the middle to strike out swinging. Wouldn't he be afraid to throw a rather slow ball into a winning ball. Lim Chan-kyu said, "(Park) Dong-won and I hit it off. If you hit a fastball and get hit, there will be another talk of speed, but the coach always emphasizes that the 140-km ball can play a 150-km role. It settled down with confidence. So I did a big ceremony without realizing it", he explained.




Lim Chan-gyu said, "If I throw it slowly like this, I will be able to play until I turn 40."Let's say "I'm not throwing it away" a strong protest (?). Lim Chan-kyu said "The curves in the middle are controlled by the speed, but they throw really hard. It's not such an easy life to live.," he said, giving a laugh.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.