This year’s professional baseball KIA Tigers are looking forward to a practice game with the World Baseball Classic (WBC) baseball team held at Kino Sports Complex in Tucson, Arizona, USA on the 20th (Korean time). The two left-handed duos who stake the mound take turns to mound.
KIA coach Kim Jong-guk explained the game strategy at the Kino Sports Complex where the spring camp was held on the 18th, saying, “I plan to put Kim Ki-hoon and Yoon Young-chul on the mound in turn and throw two innings each.”
Kim Ki-hoon and newcomer Yoon Young-cheol are lefties competing for the KIA’s 5th selection along with Lim Ki-young.
Coach Kim decided to use the practice game to test the potential of the two pitchers against the Korean national team hitters while boosting the morale of the national team.
Kim Ki-hoon, who grew up remarkably먹튀검증 in Sangmu, returned to the team after being discharged last year and added strength to his waistline with a powerful fast ball. He appeared in five games and pitched well with an earned run average of 1.04.
Yoon Young-chul, who served as an ace for three years at Chungam High School and was nominated by the KIA as the second overall pick in the rookie draft last year, is a young-gun who challenges selection at the same time as his debut with a stable command.
Coach Kim Jong-guk said, “It is our team’s first practice game at the spring camp, and we plan to send out young players mainly for the evaluation match with the national team.” I would like to give it to you.”
The practice game between KIA and the national team is played in 9 innings.
Eight pitchers from the national team, including Hyeon-Jong Yang (KIA), Chang-Mo Koo (NC), and Joon So-Jun (kt), who did not pitch in the first practice game against the NC Dinos on the 17th, are expected to take the mound.
KIA finished training in Tucson after the practice game with NC on the 22nd and 23rd, and moved to Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, where Hanwha Eagles (February 28 and March 7), Samsung Lions (March 1 and 5), Lotte He has an evaluation match against the Giants (March 3) and returns home on March 9.
The two foreign right-handed pitchers, Sean Anderson and Adonis Medina, recruited by the KIA, will pitch in the Okinawa evaluation match.
Yoon Young-chul, who served as an ace for three years at Chungam High School and was nominated by the KIA as the second overall pick in the rookie draft last year, is a young-gun who challenges selection at the same time as his debut with a stable command.