After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger

May 22, 2025

After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Lotte's Choi Jun-yong, who blocked 11 innings without losing a point. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.21/



After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Lotte Choi Jun-yong is pitching. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.21/
After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Lotte Choi Jun-yong is pitching. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.21/
It was a 7-7 draw that was a bit disappointing that he couldn't turn the tables because of Ko Seung-min's two-run shot. But there was definitely an income. This is because there is Choi Jun-yong who came back.

The Lotte Giants drew 7-7 after a seesaw game against the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Ko Seung-min fired a tiebreaking two-run shot at first base with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, when the team was upset 5-7, but no finish came out afterward.

Still, it is positive that he has not lost additional points against LG since then. On top of that, Choi Jun-yong's no-hit pitching also brought cheers from home fans in defense.




Choi Jun-yong took the mound in the top of the 10th inning and allowed no hits, one walk, two strikeouts and no runs in two innings.

He got off to a shaky start by allowing a walk to the first-runner Moon Sung-joo in the top of the 10th inning. However, he induced Kim Hyun-soo, who attempted a sacrifice bunt, to fail, and then handled it with a shortstop fly, and after Moon Sung-joo's failure to steal second base, Austin Dean also caught a shortstop fly to end the top of the 10th inning. Choi Jun-yong, who also came out in the top of the 11th inning, struck out the leader Moon Bo-kyung with a 150km fastball, and Park Dong-won induced a swing with a slider at the first pitch, and he caught the missed ball and threw it to first base. Song Chan-eui finished his mission by striking out swinging with a 120km curve after a close game going to the seventh pitch.

After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Lotte's Choi Jun-yong, who blocked 11 innings without losing a point. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.21/
After Kim Won-joong in the 9th episode, who? Choi Jun-yong, 152 km, has no hit in two innings. Lotte's bullpen gets stronger
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 21st. Lotte Choi Jun-yong is pitching. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.21/
Throwing up to 152km of fast fastballs, sliders, changeups and curves, he clearly caught LG's batters, creating a chance for Lotte to finish.

Choi Jun-yong, who has been active in Lotte's must-win group, was diagnosed with micro-damage to his right elbow ligament during spring camp in February and came to the first team on the 17th after rehabilitation.

He got off to a good start against Samsung on the 17th by winning the hold with no hit and no strikeouts in one inning, but the next day against Samsung, he left a regret with only one out count and two hits, one walk and two runs.

He pitched two stable innings against LG this time and clearly got the hang of it.




For Lotte, Choi Jun-yong settled in the must-win group, and has a strong lineup and a more stable bullpen, allowing him to gain strength in the top-tier competition.

After the game, Choi Jun-yong went to the mound with the thought of "Let's not just give him four walks", but he started with the first batter's walk probably because he was too conscious. Looking back, I was disappointed in that part, but I was able to easily solve the game because of Gangnam's blocking of stolen bases and Ho-jun's good catching," he said of the day's pitching.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.