‘One-two punch for the fall’ Shin Min-hyuk, 6⅓ innings scoreless… First PS Win in my Life
Professional baseball NC Dinos native starting pitcher Shin Min-hyuk (24) has been reborn as a ‘one-two punch’ with Eric Peddy this fall.
Shin Min-hyuk
Shin Min-hyuk pitched 6 innings in the 2nd game of the playoffs (PO) against KT Wiz held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 31st, allowing 1 hit, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts, and no runs.
The game ended with NC’s 3-2 victory, and Shin Min-hyuk was named Daily Most Valuable Player (MVP) along with being the winning pitcher in his first postseason (PS).
It wasn’t a powerful pitch like Peddie, who had the most strikeouts (12) in a PO game in the first game the previous day,
but he silenced the KT batting line with efficient and smart pitching. 카지노사이트
Shin Min-hyuk threw a total of 81 pitches, including 35 changeups, 28 cut fastballs, and 15 fastballs.
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With the changeup, which was the deciding pitch, he completely stole the timing of KT batters and induced 18 hitters, including 12 fly balls and 6 ground balls.
He also continued to have an advantage in the ball count battle,
recording a strike rate of 66% (54 out of 81 pitches).
The only batters who got more than three balls in an at-bat against Shin Min-hyuk were Park Byeong-ho in the 4th inning,
Kim Sang-soo in the 6th, and Anthony Alford in the 7th.
Shin Min-hyuk, who started the first inning easily with a three-way throw,
allowed a double to Moon Sang-cheol after two outs in the second inning.
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However, Shin Min-hyuk continued to fight back as if his shoulders felt lighter when the NC batting line added 1 run in the top of the 3rd inning to take a 3-0 lead, and made 4 consecutive three-way innings from the 3rd to 6th innings.
After two outs in the second inning, No. 6 batter Moon Sang-cheol hit the first hit, and after one out in the seventh inning,
No. 3 batter Alford got his first walk, allowing 14 batters to hit in a row.
Shin Min-hyuk guided Park Byeong-ho to a grounder in front of the third baseman in the 7th inning,
when he gave up a walk, but all runners survived due to second baseman Park Min-woo’s catching error.
In the end, Shin Min-hyuk passed the ball to bullpen Ryu Jin-wook,
Ryu Jin-wook pitched the 7th inning without getting a follow-up hit, protecting Shin Min-hyuk’s scoreless run.
NC, which gave up 2 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning,
was pressured with 1st and 3rd bases out and no outs in the bottom of the 9th,
but preserved the victory with a powerful throw by closer Lee Yong-chan and a super catch by shortstop Kim Joo-won.
In the first game of the semi-playoffs, Shin Min-hyuk’s fall baseball debut on the 22nd,
he supported the team’s victory with a pitching pitch of 5⅔ innings, allowing 4 hits, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts, and no runs.