If you beat a giant, you'll write a new 43-year history in KBO
Yang is set to start a game against the Lotte Giants of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League, which will take place at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field on Sunday. Lotte announced Park Se-woong (6-9, 5.39 ERA) as its starting pitcher.
There are only three steps left until the milestone. Yang, who has 2,046 strikeouts as of Monday, will add to his total today's record of 2,048 strikeouts by Song Jin-woo (former Hanwha Eagles), who retired in 2009. Yang became the second KBO league player to achieve 2,000 strikeouts against Lotte on June 6 and the first Tigers player to do so. He wants to take another step against Lotte today.
Yang, who joined Kia as the first overall pick in the second round of the 2007 KBO League Rookie Draft, has been active as a member of the Tigers for 17 seasons so far this year, except for 2021, when he played in the Major League. He is ranking first by beating Song Jin-woo, who is ranking second in the number of starts with 406 games (as of Monday), by a gap of 29 games. He already has several big records, including 177 wins for the most starts in his career, and 150 wins for the youngest.
Yang is aiming to become the best strikeout king in the 43-year history of the KBO league. He pitched 2,471 ⅓ innings (2nd in total), showing consistent performance. Notably, he continued to display good performance since 2014 until last year, as he achieved triple-digit strikeouts for nine consecutive seasons.
Yang added 99 strikeouts this year, and is on the verge of triple-digit strikeouts. If he adds one more, he will tie the record with triple-digit strikeouts for 10 consecutive seasons in the category along with Lee Kang-cheol and Jang Won-jun.
Yang has displayed robust performance even in the 36th season with nine wins, three losses and an earned run average of 3.63 (56 earned runs in 139 innings). If he adds three strikeouts today and becomes the winning pitcher, he will be able to win the 11th double-digit victory in his career, strikeouts in the 10th consecutive season, and top strikeouts in his career. Yang will surely be able to garner two or more strikeouts in 23 appearances this season.
However, there is also a possibility that Yang's achievement of a milestone will be delayed than expected. This is due to Typhoon Jongdari. Since the 20th, Jongdari has landed on the Korean Peninsula via the West Sea, and it has been raining a lot so far. As a result, the game between Lotte and KIA on the 20th was also heavily affected, with no-game declared in the top of the fourth inning.
Again today, we cannot rest assured. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, rain is forecasted from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day in Imdong, Buk-gu, where Gwangju's home stadium is located, as of 1 p.m. It is still unclear whether the game will be played normally with a probability of more than 60 percent of precipitation. Yang's milestone is expected to be influenced by "jongdari."
BY: 메이저사이트
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