“Korean Monster” Ryu Hyun-jin (37) rose to the top of his 10th KBO League victory in 13 years, losing five consecutive games, reviving Hanwha’s hopes of losing hope in autumn baseball.토토사이트
In an away game against Lotte in the 2024 KBO League held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on Sunday, the team won 8-4, adding to the strength of its batters, who posted 11 hits in both short and long innings amid Ryu’s good pitching. After escaping from a five-game losing streak with the victory, the team posted 61 wins, two draws and 69 losses overall in the season, beating Lotte (59 wins, four draws and 68 losses) by 0.5 games to move up to seventh place.
Ryu had six hits and one run through the sixth inning with three strikeouts, and posted a quality start (more than six innings and three earned runs or less), marking the 10th win (eight losses) of this season. It is the first time in 13 years that Ryu has become a 10-win pitcher in the KBO League since 2011.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who joined Hanwha in 2006, has won 17 wins, 14 wins, 13 wins, 16 wins and 11 wins since he won 18 games in 2006 when he was a rookie until 2011, winning double-digit wins for the sixth consecutive year. In 2012, right before entering the U.S. Major League, Ryu pitched 182.2 innings and recorded an ERA of 2.66 but failed to win double-digit wins for the seventh consecutive year due to silence and bad luck of the team’s batters.
Ryu Hyun-jin has started the game against Lotte for the first time in 4,390 days since the game at Daejeon Stadium on Sept. 6, 2012. In terms of the Sajik game, Lotte’s home stadium, it has been 5,270 days since April 10, 2010.
The two teams, which had continued their hope for the fifth place, fought back with native ace pitchers Ryu Hyun-jin and Park Se-woong. Lotte got the first run. After Victor Reyes got on base with a double to the right-center field in the bottom of the second inning, Lotte scored the first run by penetrating home while Hanwha shortstop Lee Do-yoon missed a grounder by Jeon Joon-woo.
Hanwha, which was dragged to 0-1 with only one hit until the fifth inning, turned the game around 2-1 in the top of the sixth inning with Jordan Peraza and Noh Si-hwan hitting consecutive hits with two outs and runners on the first and third bases. In the seventh inning, he took advantage of the opponent’s error and scored five runs after two outs. After Lee Do-yoon got on base due to Lotte shortstop Park Seung-wook’s error, he immediately ran away to 7-1 with Hwang Young-mook’s timely hit to the left, followed by Hwang Chi-hong’s two-run double and Peraza’s superior two-run shot.
Lotte also did not back down. Hanwha shortstop Lee Do-yoon made a critical error in Lotte’s offense in the seventh inning. Lotte made Yoon Dong-hee’s grounder to the shortstop with Lee Do-yoon falling through his crotch, trailing 7-2. With the bases loaded with one outs and Ko Seung-min drawing a walk, two runners homered side by side as Lee again fumbled Son Ho-young’s grounder to the shortstop. Son Ho-young’s ball was recorded as a hit, but if Lee handled it calmly, he could have caught one out count.
Reyes’ well-hit ball headed to Lee Do-yoon at a time when the atmosphere of reversal was about to bloom. If there was another error, the game could have plunged into a really unknown situation, but this time, Lee Do-yoon calmly handled it with a double play and finished the inning.