“The level of KBO hitters who do not miss true throws is high
“If you throw a misfire, KBO League hitters never miss.”
The LG Twins Dietrick Ens played the 4th game of the season against the Lotte Giants in the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 10th. He started the away game and pitched 105 pitches in 6⅓ innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 walks, striking out 4, and allowing 1 run (1 earned), earning his 4th win (1 loss) of the season along with a quality start (less than 3 earned runs in 6 innings). I put it in.
Ens is a pitcher that LG invested a total of $1 million (approximately KRW 1.3 billion) to recruit after the end of the 2023 season, replacing Adam Plutko. His career in the major league is not flashy, but after a short but impressive performance with 2 wins, 1 hold, 2 saves, and an ERA of 2.82 in 9 games for the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2021 season, he joined the Seibu Lions of the Japanese professional baseball league. Ens succeeded in renewing his contract by appearing in 23 games in Seibu's first season, going 10 wins, 7 losses, and an average ERA of 2.94, but he took off his uniform after performing poorly in 12 games last year with 1 win, 10 losses, and an average ERA of 5.17.
It was LG that showed interest in Ens. Amid great expectations, the Ens, wearing the 'defending champion' uniform, appeared in two exhibition games, raising expectations with one win and an ERA of 1.80, and allowed two runs (two earned) in six innings in the regular season opening game against the Hanwha Eagles on March 23. ), recording a quality start (less than 3 earned runs in 6 innings) and experiencing the joy of receiving his first win. In addition, in his second appearance, he pitched 6 innings against the Kiwoom Heroes, striking out 11 batters and allowing no runs, continuing his good streak by earning his second win.
As the Ens had experience in Asian baseball, they seemed to be adapting well to the KBO league, but in a match against SSG Landers on the 21st of last month, they suddenly gave up 8 hits (2 home runs), 2 walks, and 8 runs (8 earned) while playing 5 innings. He performed poorly and left the mound without even being able to play 5 innings against the KIA Tigers. And in the match against the Doosan Bears, which was his previous appearance, he continued to pitch disappointingly, allowing 7 hits, 1 walk, and 5 runs (2 earned) in 5 innings. Accordingly
Exhibition game - Unlike the early part of the regular season, the reason why the Ens suddenly showed difficulties was due to a problem with the arm angle. The arm suddenly lowered. Before the game on the 10th, coach Yeom Kyung-yeop said, "At the beginning of the season, the slider, cutter, and the things that led to the right-handed hitter's swing were not coming out, so I looked for the reason and found that the arm height was lowered." “The angle of the arm of the curve got lowered, and the angle of the ball increased, and the angle of all pitches changed as I tried to throw the curve like a sweeper.”
Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop ordered Ens to raise his arm angle again, and on this day, he played the most innings since entering the KBO league. The Ens, who blocked Lotte's batting lineup with a three-way strike in the first inning, successfully overcame the crisis with 2 outs and 1st and 2nd bases in the 2nd inning. His first run was in the third inning, due to various bad luck. After Yoon Dong-hee gave up an infield hit toward the second baseman, the batted ball hit by Ko Seung-min bounced wide in front of the first baseman and became a double toward right field. In addition, he guided a ground ball to the shortstop against Victor Reyes in the ensuing 2nd and 3rd bases, but at this time, Koo Bon-hyuk made a throwing error and gave up a run without even making an out count.
But there were no more variables. In the ensuing first and third base crisis, Ens struck out Jeon Jun-woo and Jeong Hoon in succession and finished the inning without allowing any additional runs, and all Lotte batting lineups were condemned to three-way errors in the 4th and 5th innings. And after blocking the 6th inning without much trouble, he went on the mound in the 7th inning even though the number of pitches was 90, and caught the first batter, Yoo Kang-nam, with a fly ball to center field. Afterwards, the Ens faced off with Oh Seon-jin, and as a result of a match that went as many as 11 pitches, he unfortunately gave up a walk and was unable to continue pitching, but Kim Dae-hyun, who took over the mound, finished the inning without allowing a run, completing 6⅓ innings of 1-run pitching. done.
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