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| A game between LG and Kiwoom at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. LG Tolhurst, who is pitching as a starter. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.30/ |
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| LG Tolhurst coming down the mound after pitching in the first inning. |
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LG Tolhurst, who has never given more than 2 points, met Doosan in the second half of the year.
Tolhurst will start against Doosan in the 2025 KBO League at Jamsil Stadium on the 6th. In the second half, the most powerful pitcher and batters clashed.
Hernandez's substitute foreign pitcher Tolhurst made his splendid debut against KT on Aug. 12. He caused a shock by finishing seven innings with 77 pitches without losing a point.
Since then, the team has continued to display good pitching in six scoreless innings (85 pitches) against Lotte on August 19, one run (95 pitches) in five innings against KIA on August 24, and one run ( 102 pitches) in seven innings against Kiwoom on the 30th.
The fifth opponent is Doosan, which has a relatively strong lineup. KIA KT Kiwoom Lotte ranks seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th in team batting average in the second half. Doosan is third behind LG NC. Since Tolhurst will not face LG, he is actually meeting the second strongest team in the league this time. The match against Doosan can be seen as a real test.
Yang Eui-ji is the one who should be most wary of. Yang Eui-ji has a batting average of 396 in the second half. OPS (On-base plus slugging) is very hot at 1.082. Yang Eui-ji will be stronger with a batting average of 417 when there is a runner. It is important not to lay a runner in front of Yang Eui-ji. Park Joon-soon Cave also has a good batting sense recently.
Lee Yoo-chan is also a scary hitter. Lee Yoo-chan has a batting average of only 246 for the season, but when he meets LG, he turns into a 'positive payment'. This year, the OPS is 1.017 with a batting average of 4.38 against LG. Doosan is likely to come up with a lineup that puts Lee Yoo-chan Cave at the top of the lineup and solves it with Yang Eui-ji.
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| A game between LG and Kiwoom at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. LG won against Kiwoom. LG Tolhurst is sharing high fives after the game. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.30/ |
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| A game between LG and Kiwoom at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. LG's Tolhurst, smiling during a conversation with pitching coach Kim Kwang-sam in the seventh inning. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.30/ |
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| A game between LG and Kiwoom at Jamsil Stadium on the 30th. LG Tolhurst smiles as he comes down the mound after pitching in the sixth inning. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.30/ |
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Tolhurst is a pitcher who actively targets the strike zone. It uses a wide range of modified fastballs from four-seam fastballs to cutters and two-seam. The breaking ball mixes the fork ball and the curve. They just throw a modified fastball into the zone and play it if they can.
Although there are still few samples, the batters who have met Tolhurst have certainly struggled so far. Tolhurst has only 51.8% of the contact ratio of the ball thrown into the strike zone. The figure is lower than Hanwha's Ponce. Among the 21 pitchers who filled the regular innings, SSG Anderson is the lowest at 50.9%. Ponce is in 20th place with 52 percent. The point of view is how Doosan batters hit Tolhurst's 'strike'.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
