‘160km Fireballer’ Moon Dong-ju (20, Hanwha) will return after a break on the 11th. Hanwha, which is at the bottom of the season with four consecutive losses, pins its hopes on Moon Dong-ju.
On the 30th, Hanwha predicted right-hander Moon Dong-ju as the starting pitcher for the Daejeon NC game. Moon Dong-ju, who started to show potential with 1 win, 1 loss, ERA of 1.08 and 18 strikeouts in 3 games (16⅔ innings) this season, was canceled from the 1st team entry for condition management after the match against Doosan in Daejeon on the 18th.
Hanwha is planning to limit Moon Dong-ju’s innings to 120 innings, including the Hangzhou Asian Games in September, which is highly likely to be selected. Even in a situation where one foreign pitcher was vacant, the team plan was not disrupted, and Moon Dong-ju took a break on the 11th and climbed the mound.
In the match against Doosan on the 18th, the last appearance before the entry was canceled, Moon Dong-ju threw 5⅔ innings, 2 hits, 4 walks, 8 strikeouts, and no runs, but could not win because he did not receive support from other lines. In particular, it was regrettable that he was replaced with 98 pitches after giving up a walk to Yang Eui-ui after two outs in the 5th inning.
Unable to complete the inning, Mun Dong-ju, who was demolished, passed the ball to pitching coach Jose Rosado and sprinted down the mound. The next day, Moon Dong-ju said, “I intuitively felt that senior Yang Eui-ji was the last hitter. He went in to play, but the ball missed little by little. He felt like being replaced (giving a walk). He has regrets, and he wanted to jump off the mound quickly rather than pitching satisfactorily,” he said.
The fact that the number of pitches increased with 4 walks was a big regret for Moon Dong-ju. He said, “It would have been nice if he had come down with six scoreless innings. (Catcher) I made a good match plan with senior Choi Jae-hoon and went in, but it was a pity that the ball was mixed in the middle.”
As shown by allowing 4 walks that day, Moon Dong-ju is not yet a good pitcher. You can’t expect a 160km fastball pitcher to throw like a knife, but even this is improving rapidly. His walks per 9 innings decreased from 4.4 last year to 3.24 this year, and the number of pitches per inning decreased from 16.8 to 15.6. Still, Moon Dong-ju said, “There are a lot of unnecessary pitches. (Entry expungement period) The goal is to shorten it.” 메이저사이트
The return match after spending 11 days recharging. However, the team situation is urgent. Hanwha, the lowest ranked team in the season with 4 consecutive losses since the match against Sajik Lotte on the 26th, is showing a clear decline with 2 wins and 9 losses in the last 11 games. With 6 wins, 16 losses and 1 draw, the win-loss margin has fallen to ‘-10’, raising the sense of crisis.
To make matters worse, the NC selection on this day was Eric Peddy, the best foreign pitcher of the year. 5 games (31 innings) 3 wins 1 loss average ERA of 0.58 and 38 strikeouts are overwhelmingly pitching. Considering the greatly stagnant Hanwha lineup, Moon Dong-joo has to suppress the NC lineup with the minimum number of runs to win.