Who is the first KS starter out of 13 wins Chirinos and 6 wins Tolhurst? The hint of the amount of cunning is the selection of the blue-and-white match. Then...
Oct 16, 2025
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LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who would have already announced all the starting pitchers from Game 1 to Game 4, is saving his words this time. Coach Yeom said "I've decided in my heart" but didn't disclose it, and also said the third and fourth games where domestic starters are expected to come out"We will decide the selection of Game 3 based on the results of Game 1."
However, Yeom revealed the starting pitcher for the rest of the Blue and White games. After the first Cheongbaek match on the 15th, Yeom announced the remaining three starting pitchers. Tolhurst and Lim Chan-kyu will play on the 16th, and Chirinos and Son Joo-young will start on the 19th. Lim Chan-kyu and Park Si-won will start in the final Cheongbaek match on the 22nd, which will be held in actual cheering by entering the crowd in Jamsil.
It is a little ambiguous to predict the selection of the first game of the Korean Series in the order of selection against Cheongbaek.
First of all, Chirinos will take the mound on the 19th, which feels like it's in time for the first game on the 25th. This is because the sixth day after a five-day rest after taking the mound on the 19th is the 25th, which fits perfectly with the normal pitching interval during the regular season. If Chirinos is the first game, Tolhurst will take the mound in the second game.
That doesn't mean that Tolhurst is unlikely to take the mound in Game 1. Tolhurst will start the game against Cheongbaek on the 16th, but he may pitch a bullpen once after that or take a short mound of about one inning against Cheongbaek on the 22nd and meet the first game on the 25th.
If Chirinos is the first starter who led the entire regular league, Tolhurst is the ace who gave strength in the second half. Chirinos went 13-6 with a 3.31 ERA in 30 appearances. He ranked 5th with multiple wins and 11th with an ERA, and was ranked 4th overall in innings by spraying 177 innings. He pitched it stably while playing many innings. In the beginning, there were cases where he threw almost perfectly and suddenly fell into a turmoil, but he led the LG starting team with quite a steady pitching.
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Both were good against Hanwha. Chirinos went 1-1 in three games with a 1.40 ERA, which was very good. Tolhurst also pitched in one game and won one game. He started the game against Hanwha in Daejeon on September 27, which was an important game, and played a role in reducing the team's magic number to 1 by allowing five hits, one walk, seven strikeouts and two runs in six innings. He showed that he can throw stably even in important games.
No matter who comes out first, it may be said that it has nothing to do with foreign one-two punches taking the mound in the first and second games on the 25th and 26th, but this time, the starting pitcher of the first game has to play in the fifth game after four days off, so we have to think about who recovers better after four days off.
Lim Chan-kyu and Son Joo-young will take charge of the third and fourth games. Although Lim Chan-kyu starts against Cheongbaek on the 22nd and appears in Game 3 on the 28th after a break on the 5th, left-handed Son Joo-young is also a card to prepare. The two, who won 11 games side by side this season, were also good against Hanwha.
Son Joo-young pitched well with a 1.38 ERA with one win and no loss in two games, and Lim Chan-kyu had a 2-1 record with a 1.59 ERA in five games.
LG is a team that relies heavily on starting pitchers because the bullpen is not very thick. The starter throws it stably and the lineup explodes in the meantime to win. That's why you have to choose a starting pitcher more carefully.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
