This happened to LG Hanwha again...Eight consecutive games of No. 1 watershed death? A.C.E keeps disappearing
Sep 17, 2025
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The Hanwha Eagles won 11-1 against the KIA Tigers at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 16th.
The starting match changed from the expectations. KIA tried to throw James Nail as the starting pitcher on the 16th. However, while playing catch on the 15th, he felt heavy in his arms, and eventually postponed his starting schedule.
KIA's original plan is nail, Kim Tae-hyung and Adam Oler. Kim Tae-hyung came out a day earlier, and on the 17th, Kim Geon-guk was urgently put in as an alternative starter.
For Hanwha, it is easier to take the starting matchup while avoiding nails.
This season, Nail pitched in three games against Hanwha with a 0.47 ERA in 19 innings. He has struck out 20 in three games. There were two six innings and one seven innings.
On the other hand, Kim Tae-hyung joined the first round in 2025. Before the game, there were only five games in the first team. All of them took the mound in relief, and the game on the 16th was Kim Tae-hyung's debut as a starter. Kim Tae-hyung showed not bad performance with four hits, four outs and two runs in four innings. He defended the Hanwha lineup well enough.
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On the 17th, KIA starter Kim Gun-guk played in 24 games this season, going back and forth between starting and relocating, recording a 2.1-hold ERA of 6.44. From the end of June to July, he took the mound as a total of five starts, but no game played more than five innings.
Kim Geon-guk never pitched against Hanwha this season. There is also a possibility that Hanwha hitters will struggle against Kim Geon-guk, who is unfamiliar. However, according to the previous record, KIA will consume some bullpen. However, on the 16th, a day earlier, KIA had to have six bullpen pitchers as 'new' with a limited number of pitches of about 70 pitches took the mound instead of 'Ace'. For KIA, bullpen calculation is not as easy as before.
Hanwha has had luck with the 'starting matchup' before. In the match against Kiwoom in Daejeon from the 12th to the 14th, Raul Alcantara was avoided. Alcantara came as an alternative foreign player this season and started playing in June. With 17 appearances, he has established himself as the most reliable starting pitcher in Kiwoom with an 8-2 record and a 3.14 ERA. He lost one game and had a 4.42 ERA in three games against Hanwha this season, but on August 26, when he recently took the mound against Hanwha, he threw an iron wall with one run in seven innings.
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Hanwha, which played four games, half of the eight consecutive games, has three wins and one loss, maintaining a three-game gap with the leader LG. As there are three consecutive matches against each other, Hanwha can take the first place by summoning 'tiebreaker' if it wins the game. At a time when one win and one win are precious, he avoided the ace twice. For Hanwha, it is good luck, and for LG, which wants to confirm its No. 1 ranking as soon as possible, it is frustrating.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
