Should I say thank you to Doug? Unbelievable, 12 consecutive undefeated, 800 million won worth of money left
Aug 08, 2024
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Anderson started against the Gocheok Kiwoom Heroes on the 7th and became the winning pitcher with five hits, four strikeouts, three walks, and one out in five ⅓ innings. Anderson, who completely overwhelmed Kiwoom's batters with no runs until the fifth inning, faced a crisis of first and second bases with no outs in the bottom of the sixth inning with consecutive hits by Song Sung-moon and Choi Joo-hwan, who exceeded 90 pitches. After catching a hard one out, one out and runners on first and third bases. I left the back to my teammate Moon Seung-won. As Moon Seung-won handled the next batter Ko Young-woo, he did not let Anderson's lead runner in, and Anderson thanked Moon with applause. SSG, which overcame the crisis, won a big victory with a score of 6-2. Anderson also had his eighth win (one loss) of the season.
It has been undefeated for 12 consecutive games. He is currently winning eight games in a row. The only loss he has is the loss he recorded in the build-up process of increasing the number of pitches in the early days of joining SSG (six runs in four innings against Hanwha on 5/24), and he has never lost since he began to play a normal starting pitching inning.
Of course, it wasn't all a quality start. He allowed four runs in three innings against the KIA Tigers on June 11 and four runs in four ⅔ against the NC Dinos on June 23, but with the help of the batters and the help of the bullpen in the second half, he finished with 'Nodisi'.
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Although the record was broken against Kiwoom, he recorded more than 10 strikeouts in four consecutive games from the Lotte Giants on July 11 to the Lotte Giants on August 1, marking the second real record in KBO league history since Sun Dong-yeol.
Anderson is a pitcher recruited by SSG instead of Robert Duggar, who was extremely sluggish at the beginning of the opening and was unable to adapt to the league. Less than a month after the opening, I started looking for alternative foreign pitchers, and I was also worried. Usually, it is not easy to bring a major league player at the beginning of the season. This is because even ordinary players are looking for a call-up opportunity.
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But I was lucky. As it happened, Detroit's bullpen was so thick this season that Anderson did not have a chance, and Korea brought new luck to Anderson, who was not able to take an early chance. SSG also moved quickly, bringing the best pitcher. Anderson is the only pitcher who consistently throws the best pitches in the SSG starting team, which has a lot of anxiety recently.
At this rate, he is also hopeful to renew his contract next year. When SSG recruited Anderson this season, it signed the contract with a full guarantee of $570,000 (about 780 million won). The performance shown now is worth less than 800 million won.
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