The first place team, Salvation Army, is here again. The first real game since the 3.8 billion left-handed FA surgery. No hits, no walks and no runs in one inning. Even the winning pitcher
Jun 12, 2025
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LG Twins' Ham Deok-joo pitched one inning in a Futures League game against the Goyang Heroes at LG Champions Field in Icheon on the 12th. He gave up only one walk without a hit and allowed no runs.
Ham Deok-ju, who sprayed a total of 27 balls, threw 12 fastballs with a maximum speed of 137km, 12 changeups, his main weapon, and two sliders and one curve.
Ham Deok-ju, who signed a four-year remaining contract for a total of 3.8 billion won after the end of the 2023 Korean Series and underwent pin fixing due to microfractures in his skull in January 2024, returned to the Hanwha Eagles match on August 13 last year. Although he pitched until the postseason, he did not show a sense of stability in 2023.
Ham Deok-ju, who underwent osteoporosis removal along with pin removal after the season, was expected to take about six months to recover.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop allowed Ham Deok-ju to comfortably eat and prepare to the point that he set the timing of his return to the second half of the year, but his rehabilitation was faster than expected and he even pitched for the first time.
Ham Deok-ju, who took the mound in the top of the seventh inning with a 3-3 tie, faced Goyang's right-handed hitters. With No. 8 Lee Jae-sang, he struck first and second pitches in a row and induced a ground ball in front of the shortstop with a changeup on the third pitch to catch the first out count.
The ball went into the third pitch in a row with No. 9 Kwon Hyuk-bin, but he later played a full count match and handled it with a high fastball to the third baseman's foul fly after a close game of up to the eighth pitch. One more full-count match with Shim Hwi-yoon. Shim Hwi-yoon resisted by hitting four consecutive fouls, and Ham Deok-ju threw a change-up that dropped the 11th pitch, but Shim Hwi-yoon did not fall for it and walked.
Ham Deok-ju met Lee Ju-hyung, a left-handed batter, for the first time, and threw a changeup at the first pitch, but he threw a wild pitch, putting him on a crisis of two outs and second base. However, he calmly handled his first appearance in the 2025 season with a fly to left field with his fifth breaking ball in 2B2S.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, LG scored two runs and led 5-3, giving Ham Deok-ju a winning pitcher requirement, and he was replaced by Baek Seon-ki in the top of the eighth inning.
Since then, LG won 5-3, making Ham Deok-ju a winning pitcher in his first appearance.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
