Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time

Aug 10, 2025

Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Hanwha starter Moon Dong-ju is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/



Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Moon Dong-ju, who took the mound as a starting pitcher for Hanwha. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/
Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Moon Dong-ju, who took the mound as a starting pitcher for Hanwha. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/
Hanwha Eagles Moon Dong-ju is once again one step closer to winning nine games.

Moon Dong-ju started in an away game against the LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium on the 10th and recorded a quality start of five hits, three walks, five strikeouts and two runs in six innings. The team was replaced by Park Sang-won in the bottom of the seventh inning with a 4-2 lead and met the requirements for a winning pitcher.

If Hanwha wins like this, Moon Dong-ju will win his ninth win of the season, surpassing his eighth win in 2023 and writing his record of most wins with nine. And he will have only one win left in his first 10 wins since his debut.




It is Moon Dong-ju who is pitching his best in the second half.

Moon Dong-ju, who had ups and downs in the first half, began to revive on June 26 when he became a winning pitcher with one run in five ⅔ against Daegu Samsung. Although he became a losing pitcher against NC on July 2, he pitched two hits and one run in six ⅓ innings, and became a winning pitcher with three runs in five innings against KIA on the 8th.

And in the second half, we had a quality start march. Moon Dong-ju, who became the winning pitcher with two hits and no runs in six innings against Doosan on the 22nd, recorded a quality start plus of seven hits (two homers) and two runs in seven innings against SSG on the 27th. And in the game against KT on the 5th, last Tuesday, he showed tremendous pitching with two hits and 10 strikeouts in seven innings. Moon Dong-joo, who met the requirements for a winning pitcher but failed to secure nine wins due to his team's upset loss, challenged for nine wins again against LG and pitched another scoreless battle.




Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Moon Dong-ju, who took the mound as a starting pitcher for Hanwha. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/
Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Hanwha starter Moon Dong-ju is pitching hard. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/
Moon Dong-ju, 158km, allowed two runs in six innings. Nine wins, try again. Will the bullpen block you this time
The Hanwha-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. Moon Dong-ju, who took the mound as a starting pitcher for Hanwha. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.10/
After one out in the bottom of the first inning, Moon Sung-joo hit a shortstop glove and bounced toward left field, and Moon Dong-joo, who ran to second base and was out, threw only six pitches and finished three batters, gave up hits to Kim Hyun-soo and Chun Sung-ho at the bottom of the second inning and allowed a walk to Lee Joo-heon, putting Park Hae-min on the verge of loading the bases with two outs, but he caught Park Hae-min with a fly to center field.

Moon Dong-ju, who finished the third and fourth innings with three outs, allowed Lee Joo-heon to hit the right field at the end of the fifth inning, but finished the follow-up hitter with a mistake.

In the meantime, Hanwha hitters scored steadily. In the top of the third inning, Son Ah-seop scored the first run with a ground ball in front of the second base with one out and runners on the second base, and in the top of the fifth inning, Son Ah-seop's double with one out and runners on the second base added another run.




The first half of the sixth was the second crisis. He gave up a straight walk to the first-runner Moon Sung-joo and drove to the second and third bases with no outs after Austin hit a double in left-center. Moon Bo-kyung then allowed Kim Hyun-soo to score a 2-2 tie by allowing two runs on a ground ball in front of the second base in a row. He gave up a straight walk to Oh Ji-hwan, but he struck out Chun Sung-ho swinging and finished his pitching.

The bottom of the sixth inning was regrettable for Moon Dong-ju, but Hanwha hitters scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning to create a winning pitcher requirement for Moon Dong-ju.

Moon Dong-ju effectively tied LG batters by throwing 41 fastballs up to 158km, 24 fork balls of 143km, 13 sliders of 141km, and 16 curves of 133km.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.