LG Twins pitcher Song Seung-ki won two games a week. He is also one of the top five pitchers in the league with multiple wins and an earned run average. He has continued to perform as well as the first starter, overcoming the five strongest starters.
Song Seung-ki took the mound as a starting pitcher in a game against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 25th.메이저놀이터
Song, who won the match against Lotte in Sajik on Tuesday by allowing three runs in five innings, started the game after four days off for the first time. It was his first time to start the game twice a week (Tuesday and Sunday). He took the mound twice a week, and won the game all together.
During six ⅔ innings, Song had four hits, three walks, and nine strikeouts, becoming the winning pitcher of the season. He also set a record of nine strikeouts in an individual game. Song threw 108 pitches. He pitched strong fastballs (61 pitches) that ranged up to 148 kilometers, and displayed 25 sliders, 12 changeups, six curves, and two folk balls.
It was a tight race between pitchers until the middle of the game. LG's batters failed to target substitute starter Jeon Young-joon of SSG until the fourth inning. Song allowed an infield hit after the first inning with two outs, but ended the second and third innings with three outs. In the fourth inning, he gave up two walks and was on the verge of first and second base with two outs, and Lee Ji-young struck out with a fastball (147km) that was taken at the low corner outside the ABS zone with a two-ball-2 strike.
LG's batters scored four runs in the top of the fifth inning to support the team. With the team leading 4-0, the team garnered strikeouts in the bottom of the sixth inning. It struck out leadoff hitter Jihoon Choi and walked Jeong Joon-jae. It allowed three strikeouts (147 kilometers) to return Park.
Ko was hit by a double to the left fence, and his team was in crisis with two outs and runners on the second and third bases. A single hit could change the course of the game. Han Yu-sum, who had a finishing hit on the previous day, swung and missed at a high-pats ball (147 kilometers) from the full count and roared.
He threw 91 pitches through the sixth inning, but took the mound in the seventh inning as well. Only Park Myung-geun was allowed to pitch. Song had an infield single to the second base from leadoff hitter Lee Ji-young, but he struck out Ahn Sang-hyun with a high fastball (147 kilometers) in the sixth pitch and Chae Hyun-woo also struck out with a high fastball (147 kilometers) in the fifth. He was replaced with bullpen pitcher Kim Young-woo with two outs and a runner on the first base. Kim ended the seventh inning without losing a point.
Song Seung-ki said after the game, "As the coach said, I tried to throw aggressively, and I think the record of the most strikeouts came out because I went in aggressively and made the results come out quickly."
He has recorded five wins and three losses and an earned run average of 2.83 in 10 games (57 ⅓ innings) this season. He has five QS starts and four QS games. He ranks 11th in earned run average (ERA) in the league and 5th among native pitchers. He is the fifth after Samsung's Won Tae-in (2.47), KT's So Hyung-joon (2.47), LG's Lim Chan-kyu (2.56), KT's Oh Won-seok (2.62). He shares ninth place in the league with multiple wins. He is followed by Lotte Giants pitcher Park Se-woong (8-2), Lim Chan-kyu (7-1), and Oh Won-seok (6-2). He is the strongest five starting pitchers in the league.
Song will be eligible for the Rookie of the Year award. "People around me say this, but to be honest, I don't have much greed. If I do well, I think the price will follow, and I don't care," he said. "My goal is to lead the innings and block the minimum number of runs so that I don't get into a bullpen fight."
After two months, he pitched in 10 games. "I think I'm less nervous than I was in the beginning of the season. I think I can think about it on the mound," Song said. "I just want my ERA to be maintained until the end."
Song, who joined LG as the 87th player in the ninth round of the second round of the rookie draft in 2021, pitched a total of nine ⅓ innings until last year. He returned to the mound after being discharged from the military in November last year, and Yeom Kyung-yeop was selected as the fifth starting pitcher. Last year, he recorded 11 wins, four losses with a 2.41 ERA and 121 strikeouts in 20 games (104 ⅔ innings) at Sangmu, winning multiple wins, an ERA and three strikeouts in the Futures League.