It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.

Jul 06, 2025

It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th. Lotte starter Davison is delighted after finishing the first inning without losing a point. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.6/



It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th. Lotte starter Davison is delighted after finishing the first inning without losing a point. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.6/
It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th. Davidson, who threw a hit ball to Kim Ho-ryeong at the end of the second inning with one out and runners on the first and second bases, is regretful. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.6/
Lotte Giants Tucker Davidson successfully finished his last pitching in the first half.

In Game 3 of the weekend series against the KIA Tigers at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th, Davison made a good start with two runs in five ⅔ innings and handed over the mound to Jung Cheol-won.

Lotte is leading 4-2 at the time of the replacement, so the winning pitcher conditions are met. He finished the first half of this season with a 3.61 ERA.




Like Ponce-Wice (Hanwha) and Anderson-White (SSG), they lack the taste of overwhelming the opponent's batters. He is not the type of pitcher who makes opposing batters feel tired with strong fastballs or presses the opposing lineup until the eighth inning of the 'Scratch Day'.

Still, Davison's performance in the first half of this season is not bad.

He has taken the mound in a total of 18 games and achieved 10 quality starts (more than 6 innings and less than 3 earned runs). With 102 ⅓ innings, he is second to James Nail (KIA, 103 ⅓ innings), Riley (NC), Weiss (102 ⅓ innings) and Anderson (99 ⅔ innings).




This year's best pitch was one run in seven ⅔ against SSG on May 7. There are three games in which he threw seven or more innings.

It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th. Jeon Jun-woo, who jumped in front of the fence with two outs and caught Choi Hyung-woo's ball in the bottom of the third inning, is welcomed by Davidson. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.6/
Since late May, there has been a slight disappointment. Some games have collapsed as badly as the game against Kiwoom on June 5 (nine runs in three ⅔ innings). For this reason, rumors of replacement were once raised.

It was like that on this day, too. Lotte's batters scored the first run first, but allowed a turnaround by allowing two runs in the bottom of the second inning. In particular, the leadoff hitter Choi Hyung-woo walked and gave up consecutive walks to Oh Sun-woo and Kim Ho-ryeong after one out, causing a one-out bases-loaded crisis, and the process of allowing Kim Tae-gun to make a two-run timely hit was not good.




Still, he finished the inning well without any crisis other than sporadic hits. After two outs in the sixth inning, he gave up a hit to Oh Sun-woo, and he had no choice but to replace it because the number of pitches reached 101.

For Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung, who has to lead the entire season, Davison's presence was necessary. Whenever there was a complaint about Davison, he said "But there are not many pitchers like that. Once the calculation comes out, it doesn't collapse easily, and it's responsible for a lot of innings."

It is true that it is a little disappointing to be a foreign pitcher. On a good day, he did not show a performance that took a picture of the opponent's lineup until the eighth inning. Neither the fastball of up to 151km, the sharp slider that throws badly, the sweeper that bends big, and the release point that hits higher than the height of 1m88 were Davison's own clear strengths.

It was not enough, but...Pitcher's clear advantage → Lotte foreigners who answered trust closed the first half with ERA 3.61.
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 6th. Lotte starter Davison is pitching. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.6/
However, the overall strengths were combined to create a compliant foreign pitcher named Davison. There are only two quick hooks before the fifth inning, and the pitcher's stability that guarantees two to three runs in five to six innings of every game is also clearly valuable. show a similar performance early in the season It is a clear advantage in contrast to Park Se-woong, who crashed in an instant.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.