"0-18 Hanwha's shocking defeat." It's a practice match, but... 3 pitchers allowed 18 runs - 10 billion won in FA Kang Baek-ho's 'ground, ground, ground' silence

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It wasn't 100% electricity. The result itself is not important because it is a practice game that raises the sense of the game and checks what has been honed in the camp at the same time. Nevertheless, the 0-18 report card is an unconvincing result.

Hanwha suffered a crushing 0-18 defeat in a practice game against the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese professional baseball league (NPB) at Nishijaki Stadium in Okinawa, Japan, on the 22nd.

In certain innings, it was the result of a slump concentrated on some players, but it could not be comforting.

Hanwha formed the lineup with Oh Jae-won (center fielder), Jonathan Ferraza (right wing), Kang Baek-ho (designated hitter), Chae Eun-sung (first baseman), Han Ji-yoon (left wing), Ha Joo-seok (second baseman), Park Jung-hyun (third baseman), Heo In-seo (possession), and Shim Woo-jun (striker).

Chiba Lotte faced off with Matsui City (striker), Terachi (third baseman), Ikeda (second baseman), Yamaguchi (left fielder), Yasuda (designated hitter), Yamamoto (right fielder), Miyazaki (first baseman), Ueda (possession) and Wada (middle fielder). Main and backup-level members were evenly mixed, and Haruya Tanaka came out as the starter.

Wilkel Hernandez, who started, pitched 26 pitches in two innings, giving two hits and striking out two. The maximum speed was 152km/h and he pitched effectively by mixing curves and changeups.

Um Sang-baek, who took the mound from the third inning, also pitched 13 pitches in one inning, continuing his pitching without allowing one hit and no run. The maximum speed is 148 kilometers.

The fourth inning was the problem. Yoon San-heum caught two out-counts after hitting a left-handed home run by Ikeda, but he later allowed a walk and was hit again following a double. Wada then allowed a walk and handed the ball over to Cho Dong-wook.

Cho Dong-wook allowed consecutive hits and allowed all successive runners to score. Yoon San-heum's earned run has risen to five. Cho Dong-wook pitched the worst, getting a triple to the right, another double, an extra hit, and even allowing a walk. After Miyazaki also got a hit and Cho Dong-wook's run increased to 5, he managed to finish the inning by turning catcher Ueda into a fly ball to center field.

He had already given up a win, but he couldn't get his act together in the fifth inning. Kim Jong-soo, who took the mound, gave up two consecutive hits and added an out count, but Yamaguchi hit a home run following a double. Since then, he has allowed three hits and two walks, and the number of runs has reached 8.

Fortunately, Park Joon-young, who took the mound in the sixth inning, and Kim Seo-hyun, who took the mound in the seventh inning, each handled one inning neatly. Kim Seo-hyun's two-seam shot up to 150km and gave up a walk and a hit one by one, but later cleared the crisis by handling the two batters neatly.

The batting lineup was also disappointing. Rookie Oh Jae-won, who started as the first batter, once again raised expectations by making a hit from his first at-bat, and foreign Peraza, who returned, had multiple hits, but all six hits were scattered and did not lead to a score.

Kang Baek-ho, who wore Hanwha's uniform for up to 10 billion won for four years in the stove league, finished helplessly with a double play at the first batter's box, a catcher's grounder, and a second baseman's grounder.

On the other hand, at Chiba Lotte, Tanaka and Kawamura blocked three innings side by side without losing a point, and Sawada took the mound in the last inning and led the victory with three outs.

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