There are a lot of cheeks, but they strangely block it. If you hit 139 kilometers, you'll get a blunder. Ham Deok-ju's second pitching was also hitless and scoreless in one inning
Jun 18, 2025
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Ham Deok-ju took the mound as the second pitcher in the Futures League game against the Hanwha Eagles at LG Champions Field in Icheon on the 18th and allowed no hits and no walks in one inning. In two appearances in the Futures League, he allowed no hits, two walks and no runs in two innings.
Ham Deok-ju remained at LG with a four-year FA contract worth a total of 3.8 billion won after leading the team to the championship in the 2023 season. However, after signing the contract, he underwent pin fixation in January last year due to a microfracture of the main skull, and returned in August, but failed to show his old pitching. After the season, I got pin removal and went back to rehabilitation. Rehabilitation took place faster than expected, and it even reached its first actual pitching in the Futures League match against the Goyang Heroes on the 12th.
In his first appearance, he allowed no hits and no runs on one walk. He threw 27 balls, but he checked his physical condition by throwing 12 fastballs up to 138km, 12 main weapon changeups, 2 sliders, and 1 curve.
Initially, LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop planned to put Ham Deok-ju in the first team around the weekend if there is no problem with his condition after the second pitching scheduled for the 17th. However, he changed to throw twice in the Futures League, took the mound once more in the second division on the weekend following the same day, and then put him in the first division next week in the three consecutive games during the week against KT Wiz.
On this day, starter Park Si-won pitched well with one hit and six strikeouts in six innings, and Ham Deok-ju came up in the top of the seventh inning.
Ham Deok-ju, who took the mound in a relaxed situation with a 7-0 lead, met Hanwha's central batting line. The first opponent is Lee Seung-hyun, a left-handed batter. Ham Deok-ju, who was caught in a disadvantageous count of 3B1S due to his high ball control, threw a high fastball toward his body for the fifth time to draw out Lee Seung-hyun's bat and handled it with a ground ball in front of the shortstop. No. 3 Jang Kyu-hyun and all three pitches became balls, and they were in an unfavorable count. Ham Deok-ju, who caught a high strike on the fourth pitch, made a full count on the same course on the fifth pitch. However, his fastball of 138km fell wide outside in the sixth pitch and walked.
The ball is also falling low with No. 4 Kim In-hwan. It started difficult with a high ball outside, and the third pitch made a foul on the body strike, but the fourth pitch also became a one-bound ball. In the 5th pitch of 3B1S, Kim In-hwan hit a high ball, and the catcher caught it in the foul area and went out 2 times.
He also played a full count match with Heo In-seo, the fifth right-handed batter who met for the first time on the day, and he caught it with a 136km fastball to center field and finished the seventh inning. He was replaced by Woo Kang-hoon in the top of the eighth inning with an 8-0 lead.
Ham Deok-ju, who threw a total of 23 balls on the day, had more balls with 10 strikes and 13 balls.
The maximum speed of the fastball was 139km, which was 1km faster than the 138km in the first appearance. I threw 17 fastballs, 2 sliders, and 4 changeups.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
