Ohtani's natural enemy NL Cy Young Award has been solidified, Skins won 6 innings, 8K scoreless, 9 wins, Kim Hye-sung has no hit, LAD 35 PIT
Sep 05, 2025
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Skins started the final game of the three consecutive home games against the Dodgers at PNC Park on the 5th (Korea time) and recorded three hits and no runs in six innings with overwhelming pitching that took away eight strikeouts. Pittsburgh won 5-3, sweeping three consecutive home games. 64 wins and 77 losses for the season.
Skins reached nine wins (nine losses) of the season, lowering his ERA from 2.05 to 1.98 again, a point range.
Skins ranked first in ERA in both leagues, tied for first in strikeouts in the NL, second in pitching innings (173), second in WHIP (0.94) and third in hit rate (0.195). There is virtually no Cy Young Award candidate to compete against Skins in the NL. Rival Philadelphia Phillies Jack Wheeler (10-5, 2.71, 194 strikeouts) was diagnosed with thoracic escape syndrome and underwent surgery to end the season.
In particular, Skins met Ohtani three times, gave up one walk, struck out two, and showed off his 'natural enemy'. Skins took the mound twice against the Dodgers this season and won both games. In the Dodger Stadium game on April 26, he won his third game of the season with five hits and nine strikeouts in six ⅓ innings.
At that time, Ohtani was put to rest with no hits in three at-bats and one strikeout. His career performance against Ohtani is two hits, one walk, and six strikeouts in 11 at-bats. In his first match on June 6 last year, he was 2 hits in 3 at-bats, including one home run, but he continued his overwhelming relativity by cooking with no hits in 8 consecutive at-bats until this day.
He marked 3-1 with a 2.70 ERA in four career games against the Dodgers.
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In the top of the first inning, Skins set the stage for good pitching by hitting leadoff Ohtani with a 98.8-mile fastball on the seventh pitch at the ball count of 2B2S to strike out swinging. He then put Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to bed with bum shots.
In the second inning, he put to rest with a three-out strikeout with two strikeouts, gave up a right double to Dalton Rushing after two outs in the third inning, walked Ohtani, and induced Mookie Betts to ground out to shortstop with a 98.1-mile fastball to pass the inning without allowing a run.
Skins, who caught Freeman with a fly ball to the first base in the fourth inning with a 1-0 lead, struck out Teoscar Hernandez and Michael Confoto in consecutive swings and misses. In the fifth inning, he had a heavy hit by Rojas after two outs, but he struck out Rushing with a 98.7-mile fastball toward his body.
Skins gained more strength in the top of the sixth inning as the team's lineup beat Dodgers starter Blake Snell with four hits and one walk in the bottom of the fifth inning to add four more runs.
Ohtani, who was the leadoff hitter again, was sprayed with a 98.3-mile fastball to the high course outside the third pitch on the two-strike to induce a swing and turn. a three-pitch strikeout. He then overpowered Betts and Freeman with a fly ball to third base and a fly to center field, respectively. Pittsburgh replaced the Skins with Johan Ramarez in the seventh inning for a 5-0 lead.
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The Dodgers, who lost 0-3 the previous day, had no goals in 17 consecutive innings before Mookie Betts hit a solo home run in the ninth inning. He then added two runs in the ninth inning with one out and runners on the first and third bases to follow 3-5, but failed to catch up in the end.
The Dodgers, which swept Pittsburgh, the weakest team in the NL Central, maintained their lead in the NL West with 78 wins and 62 losses, but the gap with Philadelphia (81 wins and 59 losses), the second-place team with direct tickets to the division series, widened to three games.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
