Choi Joon-ho (20), who had a golden opportunity to impress coach Lee Seung-yeop (48), has left due to a painful injury. It is a serious negative factor for the Doosan Bears, which has to move toward a higher ranking in the latter half of this season.토토사이트
The Doosan Bears announced Choi Jun-ho’s injury ahead of the home game of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League against the LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on Sunday. The team will undergo a two-week banhops after tearing ligament in left ankle as a result of MRI and ultrasound examination. There could be a gap of at least two weeks or longer.
In all three games he started in July, he was responsible for more than five innings, emerging as a new hope for Doosan’s starters, but Choi Joon-ho suffered an ankle injury when he slipped during the cover of the first base when Lee Ju-hyung hit an infield grounder in the top of the third inning against the Kiwoom Heroes on the 3rd.
Coach Lee Seung-yeop, whom we met before the game, looked dark. It was the starting lineup that bothered Lee so much that it was hard to pick a day when the team was operating normally this season, but Choi Joon-ho’s injury made him even more worried.
Choi Seung-yong (23) will fill the vacancy. “I am thinking about it. I have talked to the pitching coach, and I am considering taking a three-day rest and entering the match against SSG Landers,” Lee said.
Kim Min-kyu was considered a priority for the two-time selection opportunities this season, but the reason is that his shoulder is not in good condition.
Choi, who was drafted by Doosan as the 20th overall pick in the second round in 2021, came to prominence last year, his third year in the league. Since the beginning of the season, he has worked 111 innings in 34 games, including starting pitchers and bullpen sessions, and posted three wins, six losses and one save with an ERA of 3.97.
At the beginning of the season, he joined the rotation and made impressive pitching, but later moved back to the bullpen and moved back to the starting lineup when he needed a replacement, playing the role of a key player. Choi Seung-yong, who has continued stable performances in the bullpen since July, joined the starting lineup again after August and pitched outstandingly. Since then, he has taken charge of 38 ⅓ in eight games as a starter, and did not follow his luck with one win, but his ERA was only 1.64. During this period, he allowed only 1.15 on-base hits per inning and 0.231 hit rate, and both the on-base hit rate (0.290) and the pitch hit rate (0.280) were the best among the starting players.
As a result, he played in the Asian Professional Baseball Championship (APBC) team after the end of the season. He was expected to be proudly listed in the starting rotation position ahead of this season.
However, ahead of the season, he was diagnosed with a fracture of elbow fatigue and went into rehabilitation, and his return was delayed due to the overlapping surgery for appendicitis.
Choi Seung-yong, who played with the national flag in APBC 2023 last year. /Photo = News 1
He returned to the top team on April 27, and allowed four earned runs (three earned runs) during four ⅔ innings in five games up to the date. He had no earned run against Kia on Sunday except for three earned runs allowed at the match. However, Lee expressed concern over his inability to throw as many pitches as he has yet to throw only the bullpen.
“We will pitch less than 30 pitches today, recover for three days, and start on Saturday,” manager Lee said. “We are going a little differently from the plan we thought because the number of pitches we can’t throw 100 like this. If Seung-min starts, the background will be a little loose with (Choi) Ji-gang and (Lee) Young-ha out. However, if we don’t start, we can’t go to relief, so we’re planning to do that for now.”
Choi, who took the mound with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the top of the sixth inning with his team leading 7-5, got a hit by Moon Bo-kyung and allowed one of the successors to score, but threw a low slider to Oh Ji-hwan to induce a fly ball to the left field to escape the crisis. Choi recorded his first hold of the season, and subsequent pitchers kept the lead well, and Doosan escaped its fifth consecutive defeat against LG.
It is no different from Choi’s belated return to the starting lineup, which was considered one of the starting players for this season. Since he threw only nine pitches on the day, he has no physical burden. What kind of pitches he will display in the match against SSG on the 10th will also likely have a significant impact on Lee’s plan to display his strength at the end of the season. Choi, who had one loss in five matches against SSG last year, showed strong performance with ERA 2.70. Will Choi, who has been suffering Lee’s headache since the beginning of the season, be the best card to resolve the issue at the last minute.