"You didn't meet Ryu Hyunjin."' Overwhelmed by 10K in 6 innings, also caught SSG alone... 'High age + minimum competition 1,500K milestone' Double slope [On-site review of Incheon]

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He met SSG Landers, who scored 68 points and averaged 8.5 points in eight games, leading the game with 7 wins and 1 loss and a winning percentage of 0.875, but Ryu Hyun-jin (39) was in the Hanwha Eagles. The SSG lineup was also frozen due to the monster's invincible pitching.

Hanwha won 6-2 against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 7th thanks to Ryu Hyun-jin's good pitching of two runs in six innings and Ha Joo-seok's two-run final hit.

Hanwha recorded 5 wins and 4 losses, laying the groundwork for the leap to the top ranks. On the other hand, SSG recorded 6 wins and 2 losses due to the loss on the day.

Hanwha formed the lineup in the order of Oh Jae-won (center fielder), Jonathan Ferraza (right wing), Moon Hyun-bin (left wing), Noh Si-hwan (third baseman), Kang Baek-ho (designated hitter), Chae Eun-sung (first baseman), Ha Joo-seok (second baseman), Choi Jae-hoon (catcher), and Shim Woo-jun (striker). The starting pitcher is Ryu Hyun-jin.

SSG confronted Park Sung-han (striker), Guillermo Herredia (left fielder), Choi Jung (third baseman), Kim Jae-hwan (designated hitter), Ko Myung-joon (first baseman), Kim Jihoon Choi (middle fielder), Kim Sung-wook (right fielder), Ahn Sang-hyun (second baseman), and Lee Ji-young (catcher). Shota Takeda was the starting pitcher.

It started off in a good mood from the first inning. Peraza hit Takeda with one out and got on base with a double, and Moon Hyun-bin, who returned to the lineup after a break, scored the first RBI with a hit to the right.

SSG's counterattack was also formidable. Park Sung-han, who leads in four batting categories including batting average, most hits, RBI and on-base percentage, walked to get on base, and Ryu Hyun-jin struck out Herredia with three pitches.

It was Ryu Hyun-jin's 1,500th strikeout in the KBO League and the seventh in KBO history. It is a milestone set in 10 seasons in the KBO League after debuting in 2006 and playing 11 seasons in the Major League after 2012 and returning in 2024.

In 2002, he beat Song Jin-woo (36 years, 5 months and 26 days at the time) to become the oldest (39 years, 13 days) in history, and at the same time achieved the minimum record with a game. In just 246 games, the team achieved a great achievement, beating Sun Dong-yeol (301 games) by a wide margin in 1994.

Soon after, Choi Jung hit a two-run home run from behind to the left side, which was the fly in the ointment of the day. Choi Jeong's 520th career home run and his 2nd shot of the season.

Ryu Hyun-jin's loss, however, ended up there. He finished the second and third innings without a major crisis, and in the third inning, Takeda's control shook, leading to one run with four consecutive walks and Ha Joo-seok's two-run timely hit to make a 4-2 turnaround, before taking the mound again.

After a 10-pitch match with Kim Jae-hwan in the fourth inning, he was on the verge of losing a point after a walk and a double by Ko Myung-joon, but he put out the fire himself by hitting Jihoon Choi to first base and striking out Ahn Sang-hyun.

Ryu Hyun-jin, who took the mound in the sixth inning following the fifth inning, finished the day's pitch by overpowering SSG's central batting line, which led to Choi Jung, Kim Jae-hwan, and Ko Myung-joon, with KKK. He pitched 93 pitches in 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 walks, 10 strikeouts, and 2 runs. In his second game of the season, he made a quality start (more than 6 innings as a starter, less than 3 earned runs).

Park Sang-won took the mound in the seventh inning and Jung Woo-joo in the eighth inning to keep one inning clean. Starting with Moon Hyun-bin's walk and Roh Si-hwan's hit ball in the top of the ninth inning, Kang Baek-ho's RBI timely hit and Chae Eun-sung's grounder to the third base, solidifying the win.

The save situation disappeared as the score gap widened, but closer Kim Seo-hyun took the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning. Kim Seo-hyun, who started nervously by walking leadoff batter Kim Jae-hwan with a straight walk, struck out Ko Myung-joon, threw his Jihoon Choi to left field, and grounded out Han Yoo-seom to second base.

Ryu Hyun-jin, who won his first win of the season, has won four consecutive games since Sept. 2 against KIA (two runs in six innings), followed by the game against Lotte (six scoreless innings) on Sept. 10, and the game against KIA (two runs in five innings) on Sept. 17. The ERA came to 2.45.

On the other hand, SSG starter Takeda threw 71 pitches in three innings, allowing four hits, four walks, two strikeouts, and four runs, winning his second consecutive victory.

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