The record of “10 wins and 20 saves” in the KBO league came out for the first time in 20 years. However, will it be possible to make a record of “10 wins and 20 holds” for the first time in the KBO.
Professional baseball KT Wiz closer Park Young-hyun achieved the record of “10 wins-20 saves” for the first time in 20 years. Park Young-hyun took the mound in the eighth inning with the bases loaded with two outs, a 4-4 tie against LG at Jamsil Stadium on the 28th, and recorded a relief victory with one ⅓ scoreless.먹튀검증
Taking the mound with the bases loaded with two outs, Park put Austin on a foul fly to the first base to overcome the crisis of losing points. He then struck out Moon Bo-kyung in the ninth inning, followed by a fly ball to the right field for Choi Won-young and a fly ball to the left field for Park Dong-won. KT scored four runs in the top of the 10th inning to take the lead to 8-4, and Woo Kyu-min took the mound in the bottom of the 10th inning to end the game without allowing any runs. Park Young-hyun became the winning pitcher.
Park, who already has 21 saves, has achieved 10 wins, setting a new record of 10 wins and 20 saves in one season. It is the 11th record in history, and the first in 20 years since Cho Yong-joon of Hyundai in 2004.
However, KT bullpen pitcher Kim Min is also seeking to set a new record. It is the first time that a bullpen pitcher has recorded 10 wins and 20 holds in a single season. It is not easy for a bullpen pitcher to record 10 wins. In 2011, Ahn Ji-man (Samsung) won 11 games while playing as a bullpen pitcher, with 17 holds. Jung Woo-ram of the Hanwha Eagles once recorded 9 wins and 25 holds when playing for the SK Wyverns in 2008. Last year, Noh Kyung-eun of the SSG recorded 9 wins and 30 holds, falling short of one win.
Kim, who joined KT as a first-round pick in 2018, had only three total holds until last year. He played as a starting pitcher in 2019 and recorded 6-12 losses in 27 games (150 ⅔ innings), and joined Sangmu in 2021 and returned to the team in the second half of the 2022 season after completing his military service. He was sluggish with 1-2 losses and 6.83 ERA in 16 games last year, but he is showing his talent as a bullpen pitcher this season.
Kim has eight wins, two losses and 18 holds in 61 games this season. If he adds two wins and two holds, he can make a milestone. It is worth trying to take the mound often even when the bullpen is tied.
While talking about Park Young-hyun’s record at Jamsil Stadium on Tuesday, Lee said, “Kim Min can also win 10 games.” “There are no 10 wins and 20 holds, right? If you play in the middle and hold a lot, it’s not easy to win,” Lee said. “Should I try to make 10 wins and 20 holds following 10 wins and 20 saves?” Lee said with a smile. It is an interesting record to record close to 10 wins in the bullpen. This means that he had difficulties in running a pitcher.
Manager Lee Kang-chul said, “Since our bat didn’t work, Min and Young-hyun won a lot. Young-hyun often went out in the second out of the eighth inning. Young-hyun blocked well and if he won the game, Young-hyun became the winning pitcher. Min also pulled it out in the middle and threw it to become a winning pitcher, and if Young-hyun played Blon and held on, he won the game with the game.”
Coach Lee said, “Our team has no choice but to do that this year. There were so few starters that we had to use the game because the two had to go out and win somehow. At first, Min had more wins, but later Young-hyun followed. They said, “Are you competing for both wins?” “We had a lot more wins than our starters,” he said with a smile.
At the match against LG on Friday, Kim pitched a slider at Moon Bo-kyung in the seventh inning with one out and runners on the first and second bases, and allowed a three-run homer. “You can say it’s a slider, but I call it a slider. Sliders are my biggest strength, and homers hit the slider the most. I hit all four of my home runs with sliders. After switching from four-seam to two-seam, a fastball goes to left-center and right-center, meaning even if I hit a long ball, I can’t hit a homer. I throw a lot of sliders, and I strike out a lot with them,” he said.
Kim took the mound in the bottom of the eighth inning when he turned the game around 8-5 against LG on Tuesday, and allowed one hit and no run in one inning, marking his 18th hold of the season. Attention is focusing on whether he can add two wins and two holds in the remaining 19 games.