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| LG starter Lim Chan-kyu is pitching hard in a game between NC and LG at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 22nd. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.04,22/ |
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| A game between the LG Twins and SSG Landers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. LG Coenwin is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.04/ |
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| LG starter Choi Chae-heung is pitching hard in a game between LG and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 7th. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.07/ |
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'Original'Lim Chan-kyu's suddenly'Fake(?)'Lim Chan-kyu is appearing in the LG Twins.
Choi Chae-heung, who came as an FA compensation player, joined the foreign pitcher Coen Win. Everyone sees and follows Lim Chan-kyu's success story.
Lim Chan-kyu is not fast in fastball speed, but he is in his prime with his ball control and full-time control using the ball control difference between his pitches. In 2023, he recorded 14 wins, 3 losses, 1 hold, and an ERA of 3.42, leading LG to win the title for the first time in 29 years, along with his personal most wins and the most wins for domestic pitchers that year, and last year, he recorded a 10-6-1 hold average of 3.83 and posted a double-digit victory for the first time in two consecutive years. In the postseason, he won three games and had a 1.08 ERA in three games, reversing his assessment of being weak in big games. And he has shown better pitching with 5 wins and 1 loss with a 2.36 ERA in seven games, including his first shutout win against Hanwha, his first appearance this season.
This is thanks to pitching that takes away the timing of batters with 130km sliders, changeups, and curves from 90km to 120km at the speed of 140km. If you throw an early 140km fastball after throwing a slow curve of 90km, the speed felt by the 140km fastball will be around 150km due to the speed limit of nearly 50km, allowing you to take away the swing timing.
Coen Win, who came as a temporary substitute for Eliaser Hernandez, referenced Lim Chan-kyu's pitching the day before his first appearance. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop gave a tip to Coen Win, who is not fast in arrest. Manager Yeom said "Coen Win has a similar pitch to Lim Chan-kyu, so look closely at Chan-kyu's pitching pattern" If you throw it like Chan-gyu, you will adapt well."
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| 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/ |
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| A game between the LG Twins and SSG Landers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. LG Coen Win, who won, is delighted. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.04/ |
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| LG starter Choi Chae-heung is pitching hard in a game between LG and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 7th. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.07/ |
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Koen Win started the game against Jamsil SSG on the 4th and won his team's first win by winning 12-4 with a quality start of three runs in six innings, and said in a post-match interview that he actually referred to Lim Chan-kyu's pitching pattern the day before.
Choi Chae-heung, who wore the LG uniform as a compensation player for Choi Won-tae's FA who left for Samsung, learned the level control like Lim Chan-kyu in the second division. In the second division, he was sluggish in the beginning due to poor performance, including six hits and four runs in two ⅓ innings and five hits and five runs in two innings, but he showed a complete change by giving three hits (one homer) and eight strikeouts and one run in five innings against Samsung on April 25.
And he got the opportunity to start the first team and played against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on the 7th and showed tremendous pitching with one hit and no runs until the 4th inning. Unfortunately, he gave up one run with a walk and two hits in the bottom of the fifth inning, replaced immediately, and finished his first appearance at LG with three hits, four strikeouts and one run in four innings, but showed sufficient ability.
He pitched stably by controlling the speed using the difference in speed with a fastball of up to 142 kilometers, a slider and change-up of 120 to 130 kilometers, and a curve of 100 to 110 kilometers.
Especially, it was impressive that he showed good performance against left-handed batters. He caught both Jung Soo-bin and Cave Kim Jae-hwan, who have recently had good hits, and Oh Myung-jin had one hit in two at-bats. All four strikeouts were drawn from left-handed hitters. Coach Yeom originally intended to send Choi Chae-heung back to the second division after starting, but he did not send him to the second division on the 8th rest day due to unexpected good pitching. The fact that he did not immediately drop 57 temporary starters to the second division can be seen as a sign that he will be placed in the first division.
Now on the LG mound, there are even 'original' Lim Chan-kyu, 'foreign' Lim Chan-kyu, and 'left hand' Lim Chan-kyu. The original Lim Chan-gyu seems to be proud.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
