'With' all strikeouts from the 1st through the 4th inning! NC ace summons 'Doosan' Gu Ja-woon for the first time in 26 years → tops all-time foreign investor record

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NC Dinos foreign pitcher Riley Thompson (30) has completed a historic milestone, writing a new page in KBO League history.

On the 28th, Riley made his starting appearance at Changwon NC Park, pitching 5 innings, allowing 4 hits and 2 walks while recording 13 strikeouts and 2 earned runs to earn the win. He delivered an overwhelming strikeout performance, striking out a total of 13 batters.

From the very start of the game, Riley dominated the opposing lineup. Starting with Hyura in the top of the 1st inning, he struck out Kim Geon-hee and Park Chan-hyuk consecutively. His momentum continued into the top of the 2nd, where he struck out Im Byung-wook, Eo Jun-seok, and Yeo Dong-wook in succession. In the top of the 3rd, he struck out leadoff batter Seo Geon-chang and the following batter Choo Jae-hyun, completing a historic streak of 8 consecutive strikeouts.

Although he issued a walk to An Chi-hong, breaking the consecutive batter streak, Riley's strikeout march did not stop. He struck out Hyura again in the next at-bat to finish the inning. In the top of the 4th, he struck out Kim Geon-hee, Park Chan-hyuk, and Im Byung-wook in succession, striking out all three batters and wiping out the entire inning with strikeouts.

As a result, Riley recorded 12 consecutive outs solely via strikeouts from the 1st through the 4th innings. This is an extremely rare record in the history of consecutive strikeout outs in the KBO League.

According to the KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) and the NC Dinos, Riley's achievement of '12 consecutive strikeouts' ranks tied for 2nd all-time (along with Park Sung-ho and others). Specifically, when limited to a single game, this ties the all-time record of 12 consecutive strikeouts set by Doosan's Gu Ja-woon in a Jamsil Samsung game on September 29, 2000. Riley has now caught up to Gu Ja-woon's long-standing feat, earning a place in the all-time record book for most consecutive strikeouts in a single game for the first time in 26 years.

The all-time record holder for consecutive strikeouts is Lotte's Yoon Sung-bin, who recorded 13 consecutive strikeouts in 2018. However, Yoon Sung-bin's record was achieved across multiple games, from the Hanbat Hanwha game on September 5, 2018, to the first game of the doubleheader at Sajik against KT on October 10. In contrast, Riley achieved the feat of 12 consecutive strikeouts as a starting pitcher within a single game, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Gu Ja-woon.

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