"I came to LG and opened my eyes to baseball." A word from junior players who opened the eyes of a 39-year-old veteran pitcher at age 37. "You can't play folk ball even if you aim for it]"
Aug 21, 2024
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He is still dominating the KBO League with the folk ball that he knows but can't.
In the home game against SSG Landers in Jamsil on the 20th, Kim Jin-sung took the mound with the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the sixth inning, a 2-2 tie, and struck out Choi Jeong, SSG's best batter, to overcome the crisis of reversal. Choi Jung was not deceived even though he sprayed a fork ball in 1B2S, but he threw another fork ball for the fifth pitch.
This time, the fork ball flew high and fell slightly, but Choi Jung swung it and struck out. Kim Jin-sung also came out in the top of the seventh inning, neatly handling the first ⅓ inning with no hits and no runs and completing his mission, leading his team to a 4-3 victory.
Kim Jin-sung's fork ball is different from other fork balls. This is because fork balls have a special secret. It's confidence.
After the game, Kim Jin-sung said "I think I opened my eyes to baseball after coming to LG." Kim Jin-sung said "It's true that NC threw a fork ball, but I was worried if it would hit me.'"Come to LG, Ji-hwan (Oh) and Eun-sung (Chae) are really hard to hit a fork ball in a sauna." He said, 'If you throw it with confidence, you know it, but you can't even hit it after you hear it, and then you throw it with that thought and it works well.'"
The match against Choi Jung was also a head-to-head match with a fork ball. Kim Jin-sung said "If you hit me, I'll block you. That's what I'm thinking"When competing with Choi Jeong, he said, "I threw confidently, saying that what you're aiming for is a fork ball, and I only have a fork ball." The fact that the fork ball that induced the swing and miss for the fifth pitch was high was actually a real pitch. `I didn't throw it high on purpose,' Kim Jin-sung said. `If it was a little lower, it would have been a grand slam.' In the end, he induced a swing and miss even though the fork ball he threw confidently became a mistake.
I went down and came up in the second division due to a post on social media in mid-July, and I've been throwing with all my might since then. Since returning to the first team on Tuesday, he has had one win and four holds with an ERA of 0.84. He has had six hits, one walk, seven strikeouts and one run during 10 ⅔ innings.
Kim Jin-sung said, `Coach Kim Kwang-sam was a great help, and Ji-hwan and (Lee) Woo-chan gave a lot of comfort to me personally, so it was a great help.' `We have no choice but to throw the rest of the games for the fans.I have to throw hard and well because it's my fault. I'm always thinking about the fans and throwing them."
indyk@sportschosun.com
