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| 박진. Photo courtesy = Lotte Giants |
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| Kim Tae-hyun. Photo courtesy of Lotte Giants |
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Japan's Moon Dong-ju's pitches were truly terrifying. It was a great experience for Lotte Giants hitters ahead of the opening of the season.
The Lotte Giants lost 1-4 to the Orix Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in Miyazaki, Japan, on the 27th.
The starting pitcher of Orix on this day is Yamashita, who won the Rookie of the Year award two years ago??Peita (24). He is a monster pitcher who throws up to 160km fastballs with a tall height of 1m90 and a flexible body.
After joining the team as the No. 1 pick in 2020, he played 16 games and 95 innings as soon as he made his debut in the first division in 2023 after a training period, winning the Rookie of the Year award with a good performance of 9 wins, 3 losses and an ERA of 1.61. Although he was somewhat sluggish with three wins and six losses last year, he is a top prospect who is said to be scheduled to advance to the Major League after Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Rocky Sasaki (L.A. Dodgers).
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| 야마시타 ??Pata. Photo = Orix SNS |
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Lotte was also meaningful in the test without Hwang Sung-bin, Yoon Dong-hee and Reyes. Even so, Yamashita's fastball and confident pitching throughout every corner of the zone were as I heard.
Lotte's batters got two hits and a walk in four innings against Yamashita, but struck out six and failed to score a run. When I tried to attack hastily, the number of pitches was only 47. In the third inning, Jang Doo-sung, Park Seung-wook and Na Seung-yeop, who were placed in the batting order of 1st to 3rd, also suffered the humiliation of striking out for 3 consecutive times.
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On the other hand, Lotte ace Barnes struggled with the sophistication of Orix batters. In three innings, he faced 14 batters and allowed three runs by adding five hits, one hit to the body, and two wild pitches. The maximum fastball speed is 145 kilometers.
The first inning ended with three outs, but he gave up three consecutive hits in the second inning and faced a full base crisis with no outs. He gave up two runs through infield grounder team batting. In the third inning, he added a hit in a row and a hit ball to the body, loading the bases with no outs for the second time. This time, he gave up one run with a sacrifice fly and cut off the follow-up hit well with a pitcher's double play.
Park Joon-woo, who took over the mound in the fourth inning, allowed two hits, but finished the inning well without losing a run.
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| 박진. Photo courtesy = Lotte Giants |
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In the fifth inning, Kim Tae-hyun made his first appearance in the real game of this spring camp. He gave up a walk to the leadoff hitter, but the tension was relieved after catching the runner with a sharp check. He finished the inning with a fly ball to right field and a strikeout.
Park Jin-jin, who is considered the biggest harvest of this year's spring camp, showed off his presence to attract coach Kim Tae-hyung by walking one and striking out three in two innings in the sixth and seventh innings without hitting.
After one out in the seventh inning, Lotte recovered one run with Jeon Min-jae and Choi Hang-jo-jin hitting three consecutive hits. In particular, Cho Se-jin hit a hit against Orix starter Yamashita on the day, followed by a timely hit to Higashiyama Ray in the seventh inning, recording the only multi-hit in the team.
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| 조세진. Photo courtesy = Lotte Giants |
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In addition, he had hits with Na Seung-yeop and Yoo Kang-nam. Lotte lost 1-4 in the eighth inning with one extra run.
On the 28th, they will have an exchange match with sister club Chiba Lotte and a showdown with the Guchun League on March 1. In February last year, Lotte conducted joint training and two exchange matches with Chiba Lotte's first team during the Okinawa spring camp in Japan.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
