A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.

Aug 25, 2025

A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
The match between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. LG Tolhurst is pitching hard. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/



A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
The match between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. LG Tolhurst is catching his breath. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/
A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
The match between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. LG Tolhurst is pitching hard. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/
All I can say is that I changed it well. It's like adding fuel to the burning fire.

As soon as LG Twins' new foreign pitcher Anders Tolhurst arrives, he becomes a winning pitcher for three consecutive games, pushing LG's upward trend. He's good at throwing and he even follows his luck.

First of all, he throws it well.




On the 12th, when he took his first mound, he became a winning pitcher with two hits, no four outs, and seven strikeouts in seven innings against Suwon KT,

At the match against Lotte in Jamsil on the 19th, he won for the second time by allowing five hits, two walks and six strikeouts in six innings. After four days off, he won again against KIA in Gwangju on the 24th with six hits (one home run), two walks, six strikeouts and one run in five innings.

With only one run in 18 innings in all three wins, the ERA is only 0.50. The hit rate is only 20% and WHIP (on-base allowance per inning) is 0.94, so one person is not on base in one inning.




He didn't get a shot in the end in many scoring crises. There is still zero hit rate in the scoring position. In a total of 17 at-bats, he gave up two walks (including one intentional four pitches) and one hit, and he did not get any hits in 14 games.

A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
A game between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. Kim Sun-bin, who aimed for a home run when KIA Han Jun-su hit with two outs and a runner on the first base in the bottom of the second inning, is tagged out by LG catcher Park Dong-won. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/
A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
A game between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. In the bottom of the third inning, LG Oh Ji-hwan catches a hit by KIA Oh Sun-woo and connects it to a double play. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/
A lucky charm that brought luck and skill. Three wins, ERA 0.50, and zero hit rate. No home runs or runs.
The match between the KIA Tigers and the LG Twins at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 24th. LG's Moon Sung-joo, who hit a timely hit against KIA starter Aller in the top of the sixth inning, is delighted. Gwangju = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.24/
I was lucky, too. In the match against KIA on the 24th, Han Jun-su hit a double to left-center in the bottom of the second inning with one out and a runner on the first base, Kim Sun-bin penetrated home and was tagged out to prevent a run. At the bottom of the fifth inning, Kim Ho-ryeong was tagged out at home due to the bad luck of Park Chan-ho's hit by a double from Kim Ho-ryeong to the front of the forward shortstop Oh Ji-hwan.

In addition, with the team trailing 0-1, Tolhurst threw 95 pitches until the fifth inning, making it impossible to take the mound at the bottom of the sixth inning. LG's batting lineup, which had been dragged to KIA's starting Aller until the fifth inning, scored two runs in a row in the top of the sixth inning with Park Hae-min's hit, Shin Min-jae's triple, and Moon Sung-joo's hit to turn the tables, giving Tolhurst a winning requirement. And by keeping this one-point gap to the end, LG won six consecutive games with a 2-1 victory, and Tolhurst won three games.




Tolhurst, who has been replacing Hernandez, who failed to lead the inning for a long time and reliably block hitters, is building more trust by showing his outstanding crisis management ability to not give points in the crisis.

Thanks to Tolhurst's performance, LG has maintained a 5.5 game gap with second-place Hanwha (67 wins, 3 draws and 48) with 73 wins, 3 draws and 43 losses until the 25th, and is running vigorously toward the championship for the first time in two years.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.