The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie

Nov 16, 2025

The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. South Korean starter Jung Woo-joo is pitching hard in the top of the first inning. Yonhap News



The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. In the top of the first inning, South Korean starter Jung Woo-joo is heading to the dugout after finishing the inning neatly with three outs. Yonhap News
The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. In the top of the first inning, South Korean starter Jung Woo-joo is heading to the dugout after finishing the inning neatly with three outs.
High school rookie Jung Woo-joo proved to be a clear ace on the adult national team stage.

Jung Woo-joo started the second warm-up match against Japan at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on the 16th and showed outstanding pitching with no hit, one walk, four strikeouts and no runs in three innings.

In particular, he proved his strong heart by overcoming the crisis with one out and runners on the second and third bases in the top of the second inning.




Jung Woo-joo's start was an unexpected decision. Starting pitchers such as Won Tae-in, Moon Dong-ju, and Son Joo-young, who came to the national team, are difficult to take the mound in this warm-up match due to fatigue caused by the postseason appearance, so Jung Woo-joo will start.

Jung Woo-joo, who has mainly been a bullpen pitcher this year, made a total of three starts at the end of the regular season, including two against Kiwoom and LG, and the fourth playoff game against Samsung.

In Game 4 of the playoffs, Jung Woo-joo threw 67 pitches and blocked three ⅓ innings with three hits, one walk, and five strikeouts. At that time, the maximum speed of the fastball came out to 154km, adding 43 fastballs and 12 curves and sliders each out of 67.




No matter how many warm-up matches it is, it may be a burden for young players to start as soon as a high school rookie pitcher is selected for the adult national team. However, Jung Woo-joo has already experienced a big game called the playoffs, and he cooked Japanese sluggers with powerful fastballs and sliders in this warm-up match.

In the top of the first inning, top hitter Murabayashi was treated with a catcher foul fly with a fastball of 153km on five bases.

Nomura struck out swinging with a 137km outer slider in four pitches.




Morisita also induced a swinging strikeout with a high slider of 137km, ending the first inning with a three-out strikeout.

In the top of the second inning, he threw three balls in a row and threw one strike to the leadoff Maki, but his fifth fastball was high and he walked.

Jung Woo-joo caught Nishikawa's ball at first base with no outs and had a chance to double play. However, Jung Woo-joo's throw to the second base went one-bound, and all the runners lived. Jung Woo-joo's error resulted in a situation where he had to get two outs due to a double play, and became the first and second bases with no outs.

The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. South Korean starter Jung Woo-joo is pitching hard in the top of the first inning. Yonhap News
The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. Pitcher Jung Woo-joo, who caught a grounder in front of the pitcher by Japan's Nishikawa with no outs in the top of the second inning, is throwing toward the second base. Jung Woo-joo's throwing error put runners on the first and second bases in a crisis. Yonhap News
The 154km fastball worked. Jung Woo-ju, 3 innings of no hit. The second and third bases with one out are also scoreless. the birth of a monster rookie
2025 K-Baseball Series warm-up match between South Korea and Japan held at Tokyo Dome, Japan on the 16th. In the top of the second inning, starter Jung Woo-joo, who blocked the crisis with runners on the second and third bases, is heading to the dugout. Yonhap News
Kishida, who hit a come-from-behind three-run shot the previous day, took the sacrifice bunt to second and third bases with one out. Sasaki's ball was fortunately missed, making it an easy line drive to fly toward second baseman Shin Min-jae.

Jung Woo-joo, who met left-handed batter Ishikami for the first time with two outs and runners on the second and third bases, struck out swinging with a slider of 139km high in 2B2S.

For Japanese batters who were watching Jung Woo-joo's fastball, the slider thrown after two strikes played a role in taking away the timing.

In the top of the third inning, he played a close game with Isovata, the leader of the team, up to nine pitches. Isovata continued to cut and tormented Jung Woo-ju. In the end, he struck out swinging with a fastball of 150km high in the middle.

Murabayashi, who met for the second time, also had a full-count race, but he caught it with a shortstop fly with a 148km outside fastball on the sixth pitch. Nomura also handled it with a high fastball of 149km with a fly to center field, blocking well until the third inning without allowing a run.

With 53 pitches in total until the third inning, I wondered if I could make it in the fourth inning, but I finally replaced him. With Song Seong-moon's two-run single and a double steal in the bottom of the third inning, Oh Won-seok took the mound in the top of the fourth inning.



Murabayashi Itsuki (striker)

Isami Nomura (third baseman)

Shota Morissita (center field)

Makishugo (designated hitter)

Nishikawa Micho (left wing)

Yuki Nori Kishida (Capture)

Sasaki Thai (first baseman)

Left-handed Ishikami Taiki (second baseman)

Left-handed Ryota Isovata (right wing)

Outfielder Okabayashi Yuki Left Hand

infielder Kazuma Okamoto

Infielder Jojo no Kaito left hand

Catcher Seishiro Sakamoto

It's Ken Wakatsuki, the catcher

Catcher Yuhei Nakamura



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.