Are you sure you're the starter?' Hanwha Hwang Joon-seo KKKKKKK, but the early replacement of 'pitcher change → three run four' became a handshake [the scene of Jamsil]

*This content was translated by AI.

Hwang Jun-seo (21), a sore finger of the Hanwha Eagles, opened the season with a completely different pitch. What was unfortunate was the result. It was painful that the next pitcher hit a home run after coming down with a runner left in the fifth inning.

Hwang Joon-seo started the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League away game against the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 5th and allowed three hits, two outs, seven strikeouts and two runs in four ⅓ innings.

With Owen White out due to injury, he was called up on the 5th and left an impressive pitch in his first appearance game of the season.

Hwang Jun-seo, who was drafted by Hanwha as the first-round pick in 2024, showed his awium in the first two seasons. He recorded 4 wins, 16 losses and one hold in 59 games and a 5.34 ERA in 59 games.

Ahead of this season, he started and saved in exhibition games, failing to show satisfactory results with three runs in four ⅔ innings in five games, but after starting the season in the second division, he pitched five scoreless innings in two games and received a first-team call-up.

After White's injury, he hurriedly brought in a substitute foreign pitcher Jack Cushing, but Hwang Jun-seo took the mound on the day while the schedule for the mound has yet to be announced.

Coach Kim Kyung-moon said before the game, "I'm hoping that it's time for Jun-seo to show today," adding, "If I throw well, I'm going to go until I go without thinking about the number."

The first inning was a crisis. Hwang Joon-seo had consecutive hits by Park Joon-soon and Jung Soo-bin and gave up a walk to Yang Eui-ji, causing a full base crisis with no outs. When it was bad, Hwang Jun-seo's flow seemed to be reproduced as it was.

However, he soon regained his sense of stability. He struck out by throwing a low-control fastball to Dodds Cameron and a slow curve to Ahn Jae-seok to strike out swinging. Yang Seok-hwan finished the inning without giving up a run by dealing with a grounder to shortstop.

He pitched impeccably from the second inning. Hwang Jun-seo, who struck out swinging with a fastball that completely took the timing away from Park Chan-ho, pitched perfectly until the fourth inning. In particular, he recorded a KKK against Cameron, Ahn Jae-seok and Yang Seok-hwan in the fourth inning. Doosan hitters were caught in a big slow curve that completely took away the timing and a sharply controlled fastball.

In the fifth inning, it was worth looking back not only on Hwang Joon-seo but also on the Hanwha bench. Park Chan-ho, who hit a hit, stole second base and headed to third base with Park Ji-hoon's sacrifice bunt. Lee Yoo-chan was allowed to walk after the full count match.

Since then, the Hanwha bench has moved. The number of pitches has not yet exceeded 80 pitches, but the bullpen has been decided to operate. Before the game, manager Kim said, "Some pitchers have been waiting since yesterday. "I'm thinking of using all the rest of the players except for a few who threw for two consecutive days once and going to Incheon," he said, so he decided to use the bullpen earlier than expected.

As a result, however, it was a failure. The changed pitcher Yoon San-heum sprayed a high-course 145km/h fastball at the ball count 1-1 with one out and runners on the first and third bases, and Park Joon-soon's bat turned scary and the ball became a 115m three-run home run over the left fence.

In the end, two runners who were left behind stepped home, and Hwang Jun-seo's run increased to two.

<© STARNEWS. All rights reserved. No reproduction or redistribution allowed.>

*This content was translated by AI.