a realistic, strong mentality. That's why I won 10 games for 3 consecutive years with 140km. "What can happen to anyone during seven consecutive four pitches?" KS advice. Still, the body reacts
Oct 16, 2025
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Lim Chan-kyu of the LG Twins is the one who pitches his own in the trend of this era. Put fastballs, changeups, curves, and sliders in the early 140km range into the borderline. There is a view that the fastball is too slow, but he used a strategy to increase the speed felt by the speed limit with other breaking balls. Throwing a 140km fastball after a 110km curve to make the fastball feel faster. By pitching like this, Lim Chan-kyu was in his prime. He won 14 games in 2023 and won the most in Korea, and although he was out for about a month due to injury last year, he won 10 games and won 11 games this season to win in double digits for the third consecutive year.
Previously, there were only two double-digit wins, including 11 wins in 2018 and 10 wins in 2020, indicating that now is the era of Lim Chan-kyu.
These days, Lim Chan-kyu is becoming a role model for pitchers with less restraint.
It's a slower fastball than other pitchers, but I think he has a strong mentality to spray it with confidence.
Lim Chan-kyu has been in charge of the pitching team at LG for several years and is also taking care of the mental care of his juniors.
On September 24, three pitchers, Ham Deok-ju, Baek Seung-hyun, and Lee Ji-gang in the match against Changwon NC, recorded as many as seven four pitches in a row and lost six consecutive pushing runs. This was the most consecutive four-baseball record in KBO history.
LG, which was trailing 5-3, was overturned by giving up six points with only four outs without hitting a timely hit by NC, and lost 5-10.
Of course, the team atmosphere was not good, and the pitching team must have been even more so.
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Then Lim Chan-gyu said "It can happen to anyone." Lim Chan-gyu said, "I've experienced that before, and it can happen to anyone even if it's not me, so you shouldn't be swayed at all just because you know how you feel and point your finger at the situation or someone talks about it."All we can do is just throw the ball. He said, "I have to throw the ball again and I have to go out to the mound and throw the ball whether it's a home run or a walk, so I forgot about that day and that situation doesn't happen well again, so I told him not to stick to it and play against the batters again." Lim Chan-kyu also said, `It can really happen to any pitcher.' `It happened to us, incidentally. But fortunately, our pitchers threw well after thatIt was fortunate that the pitchers recovered without much shock.
LG also has several pitchers who will take the mound for the first time in the heavy-handed Korean Series, including Son Joo-young, Song Seung-ki and Kim Young-woo. Lim Chan-gyu said to them, "It is most important to try to maintain the same composure.'
I thought it was advice that anyone could tell me, but it made sense to me. Lim Chan-gyu said "Even if you do so, your body will react. Short-term games will be more tense and burdensome than regular seasons, but if you eat stronger and go in, it can be counterproductive"I was like that too, so even if I try to keep calm and be as comfortable as possible, my body reacts, so I'm trying to recognize that part"
Lim Chan-kyu started in Game 3 of the 2023 Korean Series, but scored one run in three ⅔ innings. Last year, he became a big game feature with two wins in the semi-playoff and one win in the playoffs, raising expectations for the Korean Series. However, Lim Chan-kyu said, `Of course, it would be nice to be a winning pitcher in the Korean Series, but the team's first to win. The fans are probably much more interested in the team winning and winning than in me becoming a winning pitcher."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
