Choi Won-tae (27) of the LG Twins in professional baseball showed a stable pitch that was not shaken by errors.
Choi Won-tae started the game against SSG Landers of the “2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League” at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 22nd and recorded six hits, one walk, four strikeouts and three runs (one earned) in six innings.토토사이트
After receiving a hit by Choo, the leadoff hitter at the top of the first inning, Choi induced Kim Sung-hyun to hit a double play by the shortstop. Choi Jeong-eun caught the ball by hitting a fly ball to the center field.
Choi Won-tae, who had three outs in the second inning, fell into a crisis as fielders made unstable defense in the third inning with LG leading 6-0. With one out, leadoff hitter Ha Jae-hoon was sent out to second base with a hit and a stolen base, and Choi Sang-min’s hit made a catch error by second baseman Shin Min-jae, making second baseman Ha Jae-hoon go all the way to home. Choo Shin-soo’s hit made it to first and third base with one out, and Kim Sung-hyun’s hit was caught by second baseman Shin Min-jae in the foul area, but third baseman Choi Sang-min penetrated home. Shin Min-jae played a bad pitch, and Kim Sung-hyun took advantage of his error to make it to second base.
With two outs and a runner on second base, Choi Jeong’s hit became an infield hit to shortstop, and Choo Shin-soo, who advanced to third base due to shortstop Oh Ji-hwan’s throwing error, came home. Choi Won-tae was hit by Guillermo Herredia and was on the verge of being on the first and second bases with two outs, but he caught Oh Tae-gon with a ground ball to shortstop and did not allow any more runs.
Choi walked leadoff hitter Park Sung-han in the fourth inning, and induced Lee Ji-young to hit a double play at 5-4-3. Ha Jae-hoon caught it with a fly ball to the right field. He threw a three-out game in the fifth inning, and had a hit by Eredia with one out in the sixth inning, but struck out Oh Tae-gon and Park Sung-han handled it with a foul fly to the third baseman. In the seventh inning when LG was leading 11-3, he handed over the mound to Lim Joon-hyung and finished the game on the day. Thanks to Choi’s good pitching and stellar batting by his team, LG won a landslide 13-3 victory and secured the winning series of three consecutive games during the week.
Choi posted 93 pitches. He blocked SSG’s batters by using two-seam (24 pitches), slider (24 pitches), fastball (17 pitches), change-up (17 pitches), and curveball (11 pitches). The maximum speed of fastball was 147 kilometers per hour. There was a danger of collapsing due to fielder’s error, but he achieved a quality start (three earned runs or less in six innings) by minimizing the number of runs lost.
In an interview after the game, Choi Won-tae said, “(Heo) Do-hwan led the game well, and batters scored a lot of points. Thanks to this, I think I focused well and produced good results. I tried to keep throwing a lot of strikes, and I made mistakes, but I was able to throw up to the sixth inning because of good defense,” he said.
Choi Won-tae, who had a bad start in the second half of the year, continued to pitch well until the game against KIA on the 16th (three hits, two walks, five strikeouts and one run) starting with the victory against NC on the 10th (five hits and five strikeouts in five innings). Choi Won-tae, who said, “I’m trying to keep getting better than throwing hard, so I think the fielders can help me a lot because I’m trying to throw accurately rather than throwing hard.”
“I think I was able to concentrate well today thanks to (Son) Joo-young,” Choi said. “Since yesterday, there was a forecast that it would rain, so Joo-young said it would never rain. But it really didn’t rain. That’s why I was able to concentrate well thanks to Joo-young.”