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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG Tolhurst is pitching hard. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG Tolhurst, who won his debut game, is being baptized with water. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG Tolhurst, who won his debut game, is being baptized with water. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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"It was better than what I saw on the video."
He gave up two hits, no four outs, no seven strikeouts and no runs in seven innings with 77 balls, but could he get a bad evaluation.
LG fans were in a frenzy at the tremendous debut of LG Twins' new foreign pitcher Anders Tolhurst. Along with Chirinos, there were many compliments of joy that a foreign pitcher came who could face the foreign ace of other teams.
Tolhurst became the winning pitcher in his debut match with seven scoreless innings in the KT Wiz match held in Suwon on the 12th. It surely put KT hitters to rest with four pitches: fastball, forkball, cutter, and curve of up to 153km.
All seven strikeouts swing and miss. Three were fastballs and four were folk balls. That's how good the fastball was, and the movement of the fork ball that came and fell like a fastball was good.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop also highly evaluated the value of the game.
Coach Yeom said of Tolhurst before the KT match on the 13th, "It was better than what I saw on the video."First of all, the deception seems good, and the tunneling of fastballs, cutters, and forkballs seems good as well."
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| KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG starter Tolhurst is delighted after clearing the inning with three balls in the bottom of the third inning. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG Tolhurst is pitching scoreless until the fifth inning. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 12th. LG Tolhurst is pitching hard. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.12/ |
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In particular, he continued to praise folk balls. Coach Yeom said, `Chirinos' fork ball is also good, but Tolhurst's swing width on the fork ball was huge.' `If you look at it like that, it can be seen that the swing is comforting because tunneling is good. The big difference between swing and ball means tunneling is good. If this happens, the strikeout rate will increase after two strikes and, of course, the probability of losing a point in a crisis will decrease." In the meantime, he said, `In my evaluation criteria, it can be said that I have a crystal ball that goes into the conditions of a good pitcher.'
"The first game is very important for foreign pitchers. If you can't throw it, the flow can be blocked"If you throw well, good articles come out and fans like it, so good energy comes. Naturally, the player becomes mentally better and what the other team thinks changes. "It is a plus factor for the players and the team," coach Yeom said. `So I watched it with the same feeling as my father. In fact, even though the number of pitches was small, I thought about taking it out after only the sixth inning. The pitching coach said he had to send it out in the seventh inning because of the number of pitches. I'm glad I blocked the seventh inning well."
He said he would decide whether to take the mound against Incheon SSG on the 17th after seeing Tolhurst's first pitching and physical condition, but so far, Tolhurst is likely to take the mound. Coach Yeom said "I think Tolhurst will go"
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
