After being discharged from Sangmu, ERA 10 points, PS seemed hard to get on board too...Austin Sniper → PO&KS ERA 0 → Post Oh Seung-hwan Proof, looking forward to next year
After being discharged from Sangmu, ERA 10 points, PS seemed hard to get on board too...Austin Sniper → PO&KS ERA 0 → Post Oh Seung-hwan Proof, looking forward to next year
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Samsung Lions pitcher Kim Yoon-soo is looking forward to next season by showing extreme pitching in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO postseason.메이저놀이터
In fact, expectations for Kim were low even before the start of the post season. In the Futures League in early and mid-season, he won 14 games, 74 innings with eight wins, three losses and an earned run average of 2.43, which captured the hearts of Samsung coach Park Jin-man.
Coach Park Jin-man also raised expectations, saying, "If Kim Yoon-soo is only good at making his body, he will be able to enter the rotation as a starting axis. I am constantly interested in him. I heard that his ball control has improved a lot compared to before he joined the military."
However, he failed to display remarkable performance in the first team. At the match against the Gwangju KIA Tigers on July 17, he displayed unstable control of the ball by allowing four runs with four outs and 0.2 innings. The next day, at the match against the Gwangju KIA Tigers, he allowed one hit and no run in one inning, but was informed to move to the second team.
Kim Yoon-soo, who focused on improving his skills in the second division, came up to the mound at the end of the season. He allowed two hits, two strikeouts and one run in two innings against Gwangju KIA on Sept. 24, and three hits and one run in 1.2 innings against Daegu LG Twins on Sept. 28. He has earned run average (ERA) of 10.13 without winning or losing four games in the final season.
However, coach Park Jin-man added Kim Yoon-soo to the postseason entry. With Oh out as he failed to recover his ball power, the team judged that Kim Yoon-soo was the one with the best ball power among bullpen pitchers.
Coach Park Jin-man was right. The highlight was the playoffs. In the first round match of the PO with LG on Wednesday, Kim took the mound as the team's fourth pitcher in the seventh inning after starting pitcher Denny Reyes, Song Eun-beom and Lee Seung-hyun with two outs and runners on the first and third bases. He struck out Austin Dean with three pitches. He reached the height of 155 kilometers. In the second round match of the PO on Sunday, with the bases loaded with two outs in the seventh inning, he came up instead of Won Tae-in and grounded out Austin. In the third round of the PO, he handled Austin as a slugger.
He continued his momentum in the Korean Series. He allowed one hit and no run in 0.1 innings in the first game against the KIA Tigers and 1.1 innings in the second game. He has zero ERA in five postseason games.
Looking at the postseason performance alone, I am looking forward to next year.
However, the Korean Series is not over yet. Samsung lost in both the first and second away games in Gwangju, and returned to its home ground in Daegu. We need a twist. We look forward to Kim's powerful pitching and roaring.