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| The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Lotte Giants at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 12th. Hanwha starter Ponce pitched seven scoreless innings. Ponce coming down the mound after pitching in the seventh inning. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.12/ |
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Ponce, who was scheduled to take the mound Tuesday-Sunday, because of enteritis, not a cold...
Hanwha Eagles 'Super Ace'Ponce's rotation keeps getting twisted. It is said that the game will be postponed due to a cold this time, so when will it be possible to come out.
Hanwha announced Weiss as the starting pitcher for the game against the Doosan Bears on the 19th. Originally, Ponce was scheduled to take the mound on the day. Hanwha announced that Ponce was not allowed to take the mound immediately due to cold.
He is a special ace with a 1.61 ERA in 23 games this season with 15 wins and no losses. He was Hanwha's No. 1 player in the first half of the year. However, since pitcher Lee's rotation keeps changing in the second half of the year, and Hanwha fell to second place after falling behind the LG Twins, there is no choice but to doubt that there is a problem. In fact, it is true that Ponce's health issues continued to be questioned. It's not something to hide. It was already openly spread to the baseball world even before joining the team. Other clubs also considered signing Ponce, but the change of direction was due to the risk of injury.
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| A game between the Doosan Bears and the Hanwha Eagles at Jamsil Stadium on the 24th. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Hanwha starter Ponce roars after hitting Doosan's Yang Seok-hwan to the third base. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.24/ |
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The start was because he didn't play against LG. Ponce was originally able to take the mound against KT Wiz on the 5th. Tuesday's game. Then, he could take four days off and throw against the LG Twins on the 10th. At that time, it was time for Hanwha and LG to hold a 'Preview Korean Series' for the No. 1 spot. Any coach would have wanted to put a player with a high probability of winning in a rival match. However, head coach Kim Kyung-moon postponed Ponce to the game against KT on the 6th and advanced Moon Dong-ju to the game on the 5th. It was based on the judgment that Ponce's game was not good after a four-day break this season. In fact, Ponce has never pitched more than 140 innings as a starter in his professional career. He has already played 145 ⅔ innings this year.
So Ponce threw the game against KT on the 6th and played against the Lotte Giants on the 12th. This Lotte game was also Tuesday. Here, coach Kim once again avoided taking the mound between Tuesday and Sunday. So, Hwang Joon-seo, a temporary starter, entered the game against the NC Dinos on the 17th.
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| Coach Kim Kyung-moon, who achieved 1,000 professional wins, is sharing high fives with Ponce. |
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In the meantime, Ponce said he would be delayed again due to a cold ahead of the match against Doosan on the 19th, so I couldn't help but wonder how unwell he was.
First, fact check. Ponce is known to have severe enteritis, not a cold. It's not just a symptom of diarrhea, it's enteritis accompanied by a high fever. Severe enteritis is the worst scenario for a pitcher who has to use his lower body.
Inside Hanwha, Ponce complained of symptoms of body aches, and this spread slightly differently to the cold. But it's a worse situation than a cold. First of all, the best scenario is to take the mound in the last game against Doosan on the 21st, but if that doesn't happen, there is a possibility that it could be pushed back to the weekend's SSG Landers three consecutive games. It is a matter to decide based on the condition of recovery.
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| The match between the Hanwha Eagles and the Samsung Lions at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 30th. Catchers Choi Jae-hoon and coach Yang Sang-moon praise starter Ponce for his six scoreless innings. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.30/ |
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Also, will there be no mound after four days off on Tuesday and Sunday of Ponce in the rest of the season. It wasn't that either. If Ponce took the mound on the 19th without enteritis, it was decided to play against SSG on the 24th. It was the result of sufficiently raising his physical condition through the last two rotation adjustments. Coach Kim and pitching coach Yang Sang-moon are thoroughly taking care of their bodies in the calculation that although competition in the regular season is important right now, it is most important for Ponce to perform 100% when he goes out in the postseason.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
