Unlucky starter with 16G per win → 3 wins after big sacrifice...Those who endure silently are the winners
Sep 05, 2025
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Choi Won-joon (31, Doosan Bears) pitched perfectly with three strikeouts in one ⅔ inning against the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on the 4th.
Choi Won-joon, who came to the mound with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning when he was losing 2-3, struck out Park Gun-woo after catching Matt Davidson with a fly ball to the second base at the first pitch.
In the top of the sixth inning, Doosan balanced 3-3 with a home run by leadoff hitter Yang Eui-ji.
Choi Won-jun was more encouraged. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Oh Young-soo, Lee Woo-sung, and Park Se-hyuk combined two strikeouts to create a clean three-out inning. In particular, against Park Se-hyuk, he was overwhelmed by playing only with a fastball. The maximum speed was 147 kilometers.
He added two more runs in the top of the seventh inning, and Choi Won-joon handed over the mound to Park Shin-ji in the bottom of the seventh inning. The bullpen, which leads to Park Shin-ji (1 inning scoreless), Lee Young-ha (1 inning scoreless), and Yang Jae-hoon (1 inning scoreless), did not allow a single run, and the batters scored a total of 12 points, including making a big inning in the eighth inning. In the end, he won 12-3, holding back NC, who had a busy way to go. Choi Won-joon won the game. It was his third win in the second half.
Choi Won-joon was terribly unlucky in the first half. He played in the starting rotation and won only one game in 16 games in the first half. He became a winning pitcher only on July 5, his last appearance in the first half, and managed to prevent the first half 'winless'.
Luck didn't work out. In his second appearance of the season, he pitched well with three runs (two earned) in seven innings, but he also became a losing pitcher. He played more than five innings in nine games. One win was a harsh report card.
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Although he could have been disappointed after coming down from the starting line-up, Choi Won-joon silently played his part. He pitched 21 ⅓ innings in 24 games, including games on the 4th, showing a 3.80 ERA.
He was a player who had good game management, but he certainly recovered his ball power by throwing one full inning in the bullpen. He began to tie batters effectively by adding the power of folk balls along with fast balls.
Now I'm starting to get lucky with the sacrifice for the team. After 15 consecutive winless games, he added three wins in 24 games. On the 19th of last month, he became a winning pitcher with one ball. It is the 28th record in KBO League history and the third in club history.
After coming down from the starting pitcher's position, he would have felt a lot of regret, but he silently held out and threw the ball. Eventually, the victory, which lost its way in the first half, began to come back to its original position little by little.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
