I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car

Jun 15, 2025

I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car
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/



I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car
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/
I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car
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/
As expected, he was a big game pitcher.

LG Twins' Lim Chan-kyu started the game against the Hanwha Eagles in Daejeon on the 14th, when it was the 「Korean Series」 and pitched six scoreless innings.

It was Lim Chan-kyu, who had to keep the lead in the anti-game car. Originally scheduled to take the mound on the 13th, he was scheduled to face Hanwha's Hwang Joon-seo as a starter, but it was canceled due to rain and faced Cody Ponce on the 14th.




Ponce is currently the best pitcher in the KBO League, ranking first in multiple wins (9 wins), ERA (2.20), and strikeouts (119) until the previous day. Lim Chan-kyu is also dominating as LG's ace with 8 wins and 2 losses (joint second) and a 2.80 ERA (joint eighth), but if he loses, it was inevitably a big burden to play against the opponent's ace in an important game that would lose the top spot.

After walking the lead Lee Won-seok in the bottom of the first inning, he blocked Ha Joo-seok well with a double play in front of the first base, but Lim Chan-kyu, who was on the verge of the second and third bases due to a right-center hit by Moon Hyun-bin at No. 3 and a left double by Noh Si-hwan at No. 4, struck out Chae Eun-sung swinging with a fastball and went scoreless. In the second inning, the first batter got on base due to a third baseman error, and later gave a walk to the follow-up hitter, putting Lee Won-seok on the verge of being on the first and third bases with two outs, but struck out and allowed no runs again. The third and fourth episodes ended with three-way withdrawal.

At the end of the fifth inning, it was a crisis to send out Lee Won-seok with a ball that hit his body after two outs. Lee Won-seok advanced to third base due to a throwing error in stealing second base. After that, as the curve of the third pitch fell to the side, Lee Won-seok jumped home and was intimidated and out, escaping another crisis.




In the bottom of the sixth inning, he finished his mission by catching it with a three-and-out. He was a no-hitter for five innings since he had two hits in the first inning.

I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car
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/
I won Ponce. Two hits in the first inning → No hit until the sixth inning. He scored six scoreless innings with a 141km fastball. 5 billion FA proved another big game pitcher who kept the top spot in the 0.5G car
The match between Hanwha and LG at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. 2 outs and 3rd base in the bottom of the 5th inning. With Lim Chan-kyu's ball missing from the home, third baseman Lee Won-seok rushed home, but is being tagged out. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/
He won the match against Hanwha Ponce (four hits and one walk in six innings, 10 strikeouts and one run) with two hits and two walks in six innings and three strikeouts. With a 1-0 lead, he handed over the mound to Jang Hyun-sik in the bottom of the seventh inning to meet the requirements for a winning pitcher.

However, Lim Chan-kyu's victory was blown away after giving up two runs in the seventh inning. It ended in a 2-2 draw after a close game until the 11th inning.




Lim Chan-kyu's good pitching was a big support for LG's No. 1 win. Lim Chan-kyu threw 29 fastballs, 26 changeups, 24 curves, and 10 sliders with a maximum speed of 141 kilometers.

Lim Chan-kyu was reborn as a big game pitcher in the postseason last year. In a total of three games, including the semi-playoff and the playoffs, the winning pitcher was seen, and the ERA was 1.08, making him a reliable pitcher in big games as a starting pitcher.

And in the No. 1 match against Hanwha on the same day, he also performed the starting pitcher's mission perfectly to provide the team with a chance to win by holding out a scoreless game in the end without collapsing from the crisis.

Although he missed the victory, it was once again a game of faith in Lim Chan-kyu.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.