native 155km banging → KK with the bases loaded! Lotte's Lee Min-seok failed to stop the heavy rain...Traditional Korean Busan man is growing up well.

Jun 15, 2025

native 155km banging → KK with the bases loaded! Lotte's Lee Min-seok failed to stop the heavy rain...Traditional Korean Busan man is growing up well.
A game between Doosan and Lotte at Jamsil Stadium on the 7th. Lotte's Lee Min-seok, who is pitching as a starter. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.07/



native 155km banging → KK with the bases loaded! Lotte's Lee Min-seok failed to stop the heavy rain...Traditional Korean Busan man is growing up well.
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd. Lotte's Lee Min-seok comes down the mound after pitching in the second inning. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.22/
There are no more tears. 22-year-old Young-gun, who was frustrated while clutching his elbow in the opening match, is already growing into a representative pitcher for Busan.

This is the story of Lee Min-seok (23) of the Lotte Giants. Lee Min-seok pitched well against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 15th with five hits, two walks and one run in five ⅓ innings.

As a result, since he was first selected as a starter in May, he has pitched more than five innings in six of his seven starts, fulfilling his responsibility as a starter.




This year, he has a lot of connections with SSG. This year's first start was also against SSG on May 5, and the only scoreless pitching was SSG in Gyeonggi Province on June 1 (five scoreless innings).

On this day, he continued his good pitching against the SSG lineup. In particular, heavy rain poured enough to stop the game for seven minutes from 5:34 p.m., just before the start of the third inning when Lee Min-seok took the mound. Nevertheless, Lee Min-seok did not miss the flow. However, it was regrettable that Herredia had an unexpected home run in the top of the sixth inning.

SSG was heavily poisoned after losing Choo Shin-soo's retirement ceremony the previous day. As the ace Kim Kwang-hyun had to swallow his disappointment even though he was dispatched, he armed himself with the will of a must-win on this day. The mound, where ace Anderson with a 2.28 ERA participated, was overwhelmed in weight.




native 155km banging → KK with the bases loaded! Lotte's Lee Min-seok failed to stop the heavy rain...Traditional Korean Busan man is growing up well.
A game between Doosan and Lotte at Jamsil Stadium on the 7th. Lotte's Lee Min-seok, who is pitching as a starter. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.07/
But Lee Min-seok was not easy either. He gave up a double to leadoff hitter Jihoon Choi in the bottom of the first inning, but he cut off the follow-up hit well. He allowed a walk in the second inning, but he passed it well without a crisis.

The momentum went up from the third inning. Seok Jung-woo and Jihoon Choi Jung Joon-jae were struck out one after another. In the fourth inning, Herredia-Ko Myung-jun's hit and Park Sung-han's walk faced a crisis with one out, but he struck out Cho Hyung-woo and Kim Sung-wook once again. In the 5th episode, he made a three-way exit.

Did he lose some energy after the fifth inning. He allowed a home run to his first batter, Herredia, in the sixth inning. He pulled the 148km fastball directly over the left-center fence. Later, he was replaced by allowing Ko Myung-joon to double.




He threw 99 pitches. He threw 60 fastballs with confidence. The maximum speed of the fastball was 155 kilometers. The 140-kilometer high-speed slider and change-up were also outstanding.

native 155km banging → KK with the bases loaded! Lotte's Lee Min-seok failed to stop the heavy rain...Traditional Korean Busan man is growing up well.
KBO League Lotte and LG match held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd. Lotte's Lee Min-seok, who is pitching as a starter. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.22/
Lee Min-seok from Kaesong High School is a real "Busan man". He was selected as a must-win group from the opening game of the second year, leaving behind favorable reviews in his debut season, but faced an unexpected elbow injury. And last year, it suffered from the aftermath. If you throw just one inning, your fastball speed dropped by 4 to 5 kilometers. Lee Min-seok even looks back on himself as `a year I want to erase from my baseball life.'

This year is completely different. He is active as one of the starting players. Lee Min-seok's hard work is a big help in the Lotte starters, where only the first starter Gamboa is holding out in Germany amid the sluggishness of Park Se-woong, Davidson, and Kim Jin-wook.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.