Please remember me Ko Woo-seok, who took the last challenge, took the mound for the first time since fracturing his finger. 2 innings of no hit and no hit!
May 09, 2025
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While two Korean major leaguers, Lee Jung-hoo (San Francisco Giants) and Kim Hye-sung (LA Dodgers), were active, Ko Woo-seok (27), a former member of the KBO League Save King who disappeared behind his memory, showed his wings of revival. If it lives smoothly, it is likely that the third Korean big leaguer will be born this year after Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hye-sung, who are the same age.
Right-hander Ko Woo-suk of the Miami Marlins, who went into rehabilitation after suffering an unexpected finger fracture in this year's spring camp, pitched for the first time after rehabilitation.
Ko Woo-seok, who currently belongs to the Miami-affiliated Double-A Penser Cola Wahoos, took to the rookie league stage to take the mound for rehabilitation. On the 9th (Korea time), he started the game against the FCL Cardinals (under St. Louis Cardinals) at Jupiter Roger Dean Stadium in Florida, USA, wearing the FCL Marlins uniform, a minor league rookie team under Miami.
He started from the Rookie League, the lowest level in the minor league, to find out how much he recovered from his finger injury. If he is confirmed to be good here, he will take the mound sequentially in his original Double A team and continue his challenge for the Major League call-up.
Prior to this, Ko Woo-seok joined the Miami spring camp as a non-Roster Invites in February and suffered a major injury in the fracture of his right index finger. At that time, MLB.COM, the official website of Major League Baseball, said, `Ko Woo-seok, who was training in the spring camp, suffered a fracture in his right index finger. Two weeks later, he will undergo a re-examination,' he said, announcing Ko Woo-seok's injury.
A very unusual situation happened. Miami Harold reporter Isaac Adaout said at the time that Ko Woo-suk used a towel to shadow pitch at the weight training center during training. In the process, I felt something wrong with my finger, and I hurt my finger when I grabbed a specific grip. The examination revealed a fracture, he explained the situation.
It is a very serious situation that a right-handed pitcher injures his index finger. The index finger is the part that makes speed and change to the ball by strongly scratching the seam (seam) when pitching. If you get hurt here, you can't throw the ball for a while. You can't throw the ball quite long enough to have your nails broken or your fingertips skin peeled off.
However, Ko Woo-seok broke his finger completely. That's also what happened suddenly during shadow pitching. It was unexpected misfortune for anyone. In fact, it seemed that a desperate situation occurred for Ko Woo-seok, whose last major league challenge this year.
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Ko Woo-seok caught leadoff hitter Andrew Arthur with a fly ball to center field in the top of the first inning. He then induced Padilla to hit a ground ball to shortstop on the first pitch with a follow-up Yai. However, team shortstop Fabian Lopez's throwing error came out, and the batter was safe at first base. Padilla immediately stole second base.
There was a crisis of losing points with one out and second base, but Ko Woo-seok was calm. The opposing third batter, Raniel Rodriguez, and the fourth Parkon also struck out Velazquez with only six balls. He put a powerful four-seam in the middle of the strike zone one after another, but the opposing batters only batted in vain. The ball power when he won the KBO League Save King in 2022 seemed to have revived.
Good pitching continued in the top of the second inning. He caught both leadoff hitter Tavares and subsequent Aspiriya with a fly ball to left field and a grounder to third base on the first pitch. He gave up a straight walk to Hansel Almonto after two outs, but he struck out Daniel Rojas with three pitches again. Again, he put three balls in the middle to induce three swings and misses.
Ko Woo-seok, who proved his recovery of ball power in his first rehabilitation appearance, is expected to take the mound in the rookie league once or twice more or immediately start the season in Double A. There is also a possibility of being promoted to the Major League if he continues his power pitching in Double A. Miami is currently at the bottom of the NL East (14 wins and 22 losses). The team's ERA (5.86) is only 12th in the National League. He is 24th in the entire Major League. In particular, the starting lineup's average ERA (6.35) ranks 14th in the National League and 26th in the Major League. There are enough seats for Ko Woo-seok to enter.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
