"Era 2.89 Moon Dong-ju for the first time in the away game"15 wins, looks like a career high
"Era 2.89 Moon Dong-ju for the first time in the away game"15 wins, looks like a career high
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He met solid teammates. Moon Dong-ju (22), the lonely "new king" of players, aimed to achieve career high as the fourth starting member of the "high-end" team.
Moon Dong-ju started against the Ulsan NC Dinos on the 20th and led his team to a 4-1 victory with four hits, two walks and four strikeouts in six innings. With this, he also lowered his ERA to 2.89, having won five games (two losses) this season.
Moon has been showing better performance than last year, when he was sluggish, and even 2023 when he won the Rookie of the Year award. During his nine appearances, only one game (against the Lotte Giants on April 2) had four earned runs or more. His quality start (more than six innings with three earned runs or less) has also improved his performance in innings.바카라사이트
Detailed indicators also show his sense of stability. Compared to his fastballs the past two years, Moon's strikeouts have somewhat declined in performance. The number of strikeouts per nine innings in 2023 (7.21), and 2024 (7.76), were far from the top. His curveball and slider, which are the decisive balls, failed to support his fastball completely, and collapsed when he was targeted at his fastball.
It is different this year when folk balls were added to the bowl. Having been used since the second half of last year, folk balls will play the decisive role this year with an 18.7 percent pitch rate and a 0.135 hit rate. He threw folk balls by 26.5 percent after two strikes and 30.9 percent during the favorable count, which was effective. As a result, the number of strikeouts per nine innings is outstanding at 9.84 this year. The number of walks per nine innings was also 1.93, which was significantly lower than last year's 3.07.
In a broadcast interview after the game, Moon Dong-joo said, "In the last game (three runs in five innings against the Doosan Bears in Daejeon on the 14th), I took the ball count fight unfavorably and dragged the game hard," adding, "I tried to target the strike zone as much as possible today, and I tried to throw all the pitches as strikes."
For the past two years, Moon has kept his position in the Hanwha rotation as a second or third starter. He ranked second in ERA (3.72) and second in multiple wins (eight wins) in 2023, while his performance in ERA 5.17 last year was slumping due to seven wins, seven losses, and lackluster performance by foreign pitchers. He played 111 and one third innings (second in his team) before ending the season early due to shoulder pain.
It is different this year. The starting lineup of Hanwha Eagles supports Moon. Not only Ryu Hyun-jin (4 wins, 2 losses, ERA 3.09) who returned to the Hanwha Eagles last year, but also Cody Ponce (8 wins, 2 losses, ERA 1.48) and Ryan Weiss (6 wins, 2 losses, ERA 3.67) are pitching as well as Moon Dong-ju. "There are only seniors in the starting lineup who are better than me. I'm trying my best not to break the trend in the middle," Moon said. "I wonder if there will be a better season for starting pitchers like this year. I'm learning a lot, and it's an important year for me as well. I'll try to display better pitching going forward by taking advantage of the situation given to me."
As wins accumulate steeply, Moon's first 10 wins in his debut game are also in sight. Moon's five wins were in July 2023 and August 2024, but he did so before the end of May this year. At his current pace, he can win 10 games in summer. If he plays more than 27 games healthy until the end of the season, he can even win 15. "Our starting pitchers are doing well, so I tried to follow them naturally. So I think I have good results," Moon said in an interview with the team. "I'm always grateful to Choi Jae-hoon and his starting players." "The season is really long. "We haven't played 10 games yet," he said. "We have to think positively about a good start, but if we let our guard down, injuries can come. We will do our best."