It will take 14 wins and at least a year to get to Park Chan-ho, starting with 8 runs from Darvish minor rehabilitation?
Jul 26, 2025
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San Diego Padres Darvish Yu pitched his worst pitch in three years in his fourth appearance of the season.
Darvish started in an away game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on the 25th (Korea time), and lost eight runs in three ⅓ innings after getting eight hits. San Diego lost 7-9. He threw 69 pitches, walked two and struck out three.
He was reeling from two crucial cannons. In the bottom of the first inning with a 2-0 lead, Wilson Contreras threw a 93.9-mile flat fastball toward his body, gave up a double on the left-field line, allowing one run, and in the second inning, he was beaten by Brandon Donovan with a superior three-run shot and Contreras with a three-run shot in the left-center, and collapsed by six runs.
Donovan, a left-handed hitter, threw an 83-mile sweeper into the middle, and Contreras, a right-handed hitter, threw an 84.5-mile sweeper into the middle, and then allowed a home run. It's a series of balls.
Darvish, who had a season on the IL due to a right elbow injury during spring training in March, returned on the 8th after nearly four months of rehabilitation. However, he has never pitched satisfactorily in four games until this day. The eight runs are the most since April 13, 2022 against the San Francisco Giants (9 runs in one ⅔).
He lost three games in four ⅔, threw 16 innings, gave up 21 hits and 9 walks, allowed 17 runs, with a 9.18 ERA, a 0.309 hit rate and a WHIP of 1.80.
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Darvish has decided to make one more start ahead of the trade deadline (7 a.m. on August 1). It will be a home game against the New York Mets on the 30th. It is a game in which Darvish's fate can be determined.
MLB.com said 'Darvish's pitching that day will have a significant impact on the team's strategy because he is not in a position to go to another team, not because he has something to do with the trade or release.'It would be fair to give Darvish some leeway. He didn't make a minor league appearance in the final stages of his rehabilitation, but only played a simulation game against single-A hitters. I didn't come back from a full build-up.
In other words, if they are sluggish in the match against the Mets, they need to give them more build-up time. After the game, he said, `Honestly, I have to get better. I've been throwing it for 21 years. There is no excuse for it."
San Diego signed a six-year, $108 million extension with Darvish ahead of the opening of spring training in February 2023. This is because he seemed to be in his second heyday, pitching 194 ⅔ innings in 30 games in 2022, marking 16-8 losses and a 3.10 ERA. The contract period is until 2028, when he turns 42 years old.
However, Darvish ended the season early in August 2023 due to an elbow stress reaction, and in 2024, he threw until the end of May and was on the IL due to a groin injury, and a month later, he volunteered to join the restricted roster for personal reasons and was not paid before returning in September.
This season, he had to resort to rehabilitation until the end of the first half due to an elbow injury. It is safe to say that we have reached the point of not listening to what we are saying.
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Of course, health and pitch must be normal. Park Chan-ho won his 124th career victory against the Cincinnati Reds in September 2010 when he was 37. Darvish is now a year and eight months old.
For San Diego, which ranks second in the NL West, if Darvish cannot get out of the slump, it should restructure its rotation using internal resources.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
