No pitcher wants to walk 안전놀이터. When the runners pile up, you are the hardest, and I feel sorry for the beasts who have to stand without anything to do. It is even worse under the scorching heat of midsummer.
Still, the pitcher has to throw the ball and prevent runs. that’s what to do KT Bae Seong-seong fulfilled its duty.
Bae Seong-seong took the mound as a starter against Suwon NC on the 13th and blocked 6 scoreless innings. The results were good, but the process was very difficult. From the second through the fourth, he gave up three consecutive innings of walks. He faced a scoring crisis almost every inning. However, he did not give up a single point, hitting the NC batters with his pitches at every decisive moment. KT won 4-0, and exclusion also raised the 6th win (6th loss) of the season.
After the game, Bae Seong-seong met with reporters and said, “It’s a pity that I walked a lot, but I tried to throw my ball. He said, “I thought, let’s not take it out just because it was a walk, but let’s push it into the zone.”
Catcher Jang Seong-woo, who worked with the battery, also relieved the burden of exclusion. Bae Seong-seong said, “I think (Jang) Seong-woo hyung also knew that he couldn’t do anything today.” He told me, ‘Don’t worry about the defense time of the beasts.’” It was also helpful for KT manager Lee Kang-cheol to advise, “It seems like you’re throwing a little hastily, so let’s throw it slowly.”
KT won a valuable victory as Bae Seong-seong blocked 6 innings with no runs despite the difficulty in pitching. In addition to the match between the 3rd and 4th place, I won against Eric Peddie. Bae Seong-seong said, “Because it’s Peddy, I expected it to be a game where there wouldn’t be many points. He went in to try to suppress the conceding as much as possible, but fortunately,” he said.
This season, KT shows a particularly strong performance against Peddy. On April 13, Peddie suffered his first loss in the KBO. Just as the opponent scored 2 points on this day, KT also took advantage of the opponent’s mistake to raise the score. On this day, Peddie allowed 3 runs in 5 innings and 1 earned run, and in his first loss in April, he allowed 3 runs in 6 innings and 1 earned run. Exclusion-seong said, “Every time the hitters come into the dugout, they say, ‘The ball is bloody,’ but they keep giving points. Since it was an important ranking fight, I wonder if I entered it with a stronger concentration than usual.”
Bae Seong-seong will enlist as a managing director at the end of this season. There are variables. As NC Koo Chang-mo’s injury hiatus is prolonged, the possibility of a replacement player joining the Hangzhou Asian Games team is increasing. Excludability is also in the candidate group.
But exclusion was honest. Bae Seong-seong emphasized, “I’m going out for the country, and of course I have to get good results,” but said, “As a team, I think we can hit a little more when many other players are missing.” In other words, the idea of the team is bigger than getting on the national team or the benefits of exemption from military service.
KT’s infielder Kang Baek-ho and midfielder Park Young-hyeon will play in the Asian Games. Considering that Kang Baek-ho has been out of the first team since the end of last month, the real power leak is one Park Young-hyun.
Bae Seong-seong said, “If you look at it calmly, LG in first place feels a little far away, but I think we can do enough until the second place,” and said, “I will not give up until the end.”
3rd place KT maintained a 3-game gap with 2nd place SSG, who won side by side that day.