Growl of a rolling stone! The Bears nearly woke me up

May 01, 2025

Growl of a rolling stone! The Bears nearly woke me up
KBO League Doosan and KT at Jamsil Stadium on May 1. 2 outs and 1st base in the 8th inning. Doosan Bears' Ko Hyo-joon roars after treating Kang Baek-ho with an infield grounder to second base. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.01/



Growl of a rolling stone! The Bears nearly woke me up
KBO League Doosan and KT held at Jamsil Stadium on May 1st. Ko Hyo-joon of Doosan Bears pitches. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.01/
If you don't wake up on your own, you have to shake it from outside.

Doosan Bears' hibernation is getting longer. The roar of Go Hyo-joon roared the Jamsil bee. I thought the Bears were waking up. However, it seems that once it was not enough.

Doosan had a 3-3 disappointing draw against KT in Jamsil on the 1st. Closer Kim Taek-yeon hit a tiebreaking two-run shot in the top of the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead.




Ko Hyo-joon, a 42-year-old recruited as a nurturing player, made his Doosan debut in the top of the eighth inning. He even recorded a hold. As he came down the mound, he clenched his fist and shouted "fighting." It was a rare combative feeling in Doosan recently. I wondered if a perfect story would be written.

However, on this day, Kim Taek-yeon committed her first blon save of the season. No matter how top-notch finish, BlonSave will come out four to five times if you play full time. Kim Taek-yeon also had four Blon saves in 2024.

It's unfortunate, but it can't be helped.




What should be appreciated more than that is that he kept it without giving up the atmosphere there.

Doosan's Kim Taek-yeon collapsed, but Lee Young-ha and Hong Min-gyu were each responsible for one ⅓ of ⅔ innings.

With Ko Hyo-joon coming in, Doosan's bullpen seems to have quickly cleared up its battle lines.




Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop also said, `I will make a change to the winning team" he forewarned. The game against KT showed that the Doosan bullpen, where Ko Hyo-joon came in, is competitive again.

Growl of a rolling stone! The Bears nearly woke me up
KBO League Doosan and KT at Jamsil Stadium on May 1. 2 outs and 1st base in the 8th inning. Doosan Bears' Ko Hyo-joon roars after treating Kang Baek-ho with an infield grounder to second base. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.01/
Growl of a rolling stone! The Bears nearly woke me up
KBO League game between Doosan and KT at Jamsil Stadium on May 1. Doosan's Ko Hyo-joon, who is sharing high fives with his teammates after pitching in the eighth inning. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.01/
Instead of Choi Ji-gang, whose number of runs has increased recently, withdrawing from Group B, Park Chi-guk came to the fore. Ko Hyo-joon supported him and crossed the 7-8th inning very smoothly. Even after Kim Taek-yeon, Lee Young-ha and rookie Hong Min-gyu showed that they can throw their own balls even in ultra-close situations.

KT is the No. 1 team in the bullpen this season. KT manager Lee Kang-chul is considered a master of bullpen management. It is an income in itself that it has taken the bullpen fight to a close game against KT.

If the mound holds out, the bat will eventually come up.

Doosan only waited for Kwak Bin and Hong Gun-hee, but fell to eighth place little by little. If I had been pushed into a situation where I only looked at Kwak Bin and Hong Gun-hee without any support, I was on the verge of running out of strength.

As Ko Hyo-joon came from here, the urgent fire was extinguished. Hong Gun-hee can return as early as two weeks, and Kwak Bin can also return as late as May. If the bullpen recovers with Ko Hyo-joon at the center, Doosan will also have plenty of room to rebound.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.