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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung, who won 9-3, is welcoming Koo Seung-min. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, is pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with the bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, is being welcomed by his teammates as he comes down after blocking one run. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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The same game without change is bound to be defeated in the end.
This is why Lotte Giants' Koo Seung-min went down to the second division again in 10 days.
Lotte excluded Koo Seung-min, an FA must-winner, from the first-team entry on the 8th, which was a rest day after the nine consecutive games. And prior to the match against Suwon KT Wiz on the 9th, he called up veteran sidearm pitcher Han Hyun-hee.
Koo Seung-min, who signed an FA contract worth a total of 2.1 billion won in 2+2 years after finishing last season, has yet to show what he expected.
Koo Seung-min, who threw just one game at the beginning of the season, went down to the second division. The reason is that restraint and relief have not yet come up. I went to the second team on March 26 and only returned to the first team on April 29, a month later. Still, the speed limit, which was only in the early 140km range, was raised to 148km.
Koo Seung-min, who took the mound immediately against Kiwoom on the first day of his return and pitched a stable pitching with no hit, one out and one strikeout for one ⅓ inning, continued to be anxious in pitching afterwards.
On the 2nd, the NC match went up to effectively wrap up the game after one out in the top of the ninth inning with a 4-3 lead, but was hit by pinch hitter Park Si-won's double to the right-center. He caught Kim Joo-won with a fly to center field to make two outs, but was eventually replaced by Kim Sang-soo at Park Min-woo's at-bat. Kim Sang-soo caught Park Min-woo with a ground ball in front of the second base and finished the game with a victory.
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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Lotte's Koo Seung-min, who won 9-3, is high-fiving Na Seung-yeop. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, is taking a deep breath before pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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| Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, is pitching. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/ |
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On the 4th, he became a losing pitcher against NC. Koo Seung-min, who came up as the second pitcher after starting Barnes at third base with one out in the top of the sixth inning with a 6-4 lead, caught pinch hitter Park Min-woo with a ground ball in front of the first base, but the third baseman homered and became 6-5 at that time, and was replaced by Jung Chul-won after giving up a hit to Son Ah-seop and a walk to Davison after one out. As soon as Jung Chul-won came up, he was hit by a three-run shot from behind by Kim Hyung-joon, giving Koo Seung-min two runs, and the loss was recorded.
In the match against SSG on the 7th, he gave one hit and one walk in ⅓ innings, allowing one run (scarce). Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with two outs and a runner on first base in the top of the eighth inning with a 6-1 lead, handled the pinch-hitter Jihoon Choi with a fly to left field, but when he also came up in the top of the ninth inning, he gave a walk to lead Choi Joon-woo and was replaced by Jeong Chul-won after hitting a right-handed hit by pinch-hitter Jung Joon-jae. Eventually, he was eliminated from the first team on the 8th.
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung expressed frustration with Koo Seung-min at a meeting with reporters after the KT match was canceled due to rain on the 9th. Director Kim said "The pattern is the same regardless of the arrest and ball control." Coach Kim, who had been talking about Koo Seung-min's throwing pattern for a long time, said "I don't know if the ball is as good as before or if the fork ball falls off well, but it's all right because the fork ball doesn't fall off well." I try to throw a fastball, but I can't control it well" He insisted on the same pattern even though his ball was different from before, but he got a bad result.
In today's professional baseball, where the analysis of pitchers and batters is thorough, Koo Seung-min has been given homework.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
