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| The match between Hanwha and LG at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 15th. LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop watching the game. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.15/ |
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| The match between Hanwha and LG held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. LG Lim Chan-kyu is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/ |
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| A game between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Daegu Lions Park on the 11th. LG Choi Chae-heung is pitching hard. Daegu=Park Jae-man Reporter pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.11/ |
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I dropped down to second place, but I excluded the ace who threw well from the first team entry. It is a step backward to compete in the summer, the final destination.
The LG Twins excluded Lim Chan-kyu from the first-team entry on the 16th. LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop already announced Lim Chan-kyu's 10-day break on the 15th.
However, LG's situation is not very good. Son Joo-young, who is already in poor condition, is out of the first team. He can return to the first team on the 21st. As Hanwha's match was canceled due to rain on the 14th and Lim Chan-kyu was also excluded, LG needed a starting pitcher against the NC Dinos in Jamsil on the 19th and the Doosan in Jamsil on the 20th. First of all, manager Yeom announced his plan to start Choi Chae-heung on the 19th and play it as a bullpen day on the 20th. Son Joo-young and Song Seung-ki, who will return on the 21st and 22nd, will be in charge.
Lim Chan-kyu's exclusion was unexpected. On the 14th, he pitched six scoreless innings against Hanwha and had a great showdown with Cody Ponce, the starting pitcher of the Hanwha Eagles.
He allowed two hits in the bottom of the first inning, but he blocked them well without a hit until the sixth inning. It has been shown that a fast ball of around 140km compared to Ponce, who is struggling with a fast ball of more than 150km, can sufficiently block the batter.
However, manager Yeom watched the game and decided it was time for a break. Even if Lim Chan-kyu doesn't have a fastball, there is a speed limit he has to throw, but the speed limit doesn't come out. Judging that fatigue had accumulated, he decided to skip the mound once.
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| The match between Hanwha and LG held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. LG Lim Chan-kyu is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/ |
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| The match between Hanwha and LG held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. LG starter Lim Chan-kyu, who handles Noh Si-hwan with a ground ball in front of the pitcher in the sixth inning. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/ |
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| The match between Hanwha and LG held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. LG Lim Chan-kyu is pitching as a starter. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/ |
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Lim Chan-kyu is 8-2 with a 2.61 ERA in 14 games. He is ranked first in domestic pitchers with multiple wins and ERA. He threw a total of 86 ⅓ innings, ranking fifth overall and No. 1 in Korea. The LG coaching staff judged that it is time to rest even if they are performing well because they threw a lot without resting.
The fact that Yeom made a bold decision to exclude the most stable pitching pitcher even though he was in a fierce battle with Hanwha for the first place shows that he is operating the season with a long view.
As the summer season, which is physically difficult and can be decided, is approaching, I feel the need to manage the players so that they can achieve their skills without injury.
Coach Yeom said "It's good to win first place, but I think it's absolutely not good for a one-year race if the team tries to keep the conditions for no reason, but if the team goes too far."In running the season, we need to know what to prepare for the current situation and what to prepare for, and do our best to lead the game within the conditions." In my experience, that's when you're ready to play at the end. I've played more than 1,000 games as a coach, and I've been writing game diaries for 20 years. It's a manual I've made." It means that we should make the final result by looking at the entire season and operating it rather than the immediate result.
LG fell to second place by a half-game difference with a 5-10 loss to Hanwha on the 15th. Without Lim Chan-kyu, he took out two holes in this week's starting lineup even though he knew it would create two holes. It is a paving stone for the regular league championship at the end of the season.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
