KIA Tigers’ pride, lefty Yang Hyeon-jong, smiled and said, “I hope we stop meeting now” in a rival match with SSG Landers left-hander Kim Gwang-hyun.
Yang Hyeon-jong started in the 3rd game of the season against SSG Landers in the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League held at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on the 9th and won 2 wins (undefeated) of the season while fighting 6 hits, 10 strikeouts and 1 walk in 8 innings. took care The team won 3-0.
On this day, much attention was paid to the selection match between Yang Hyun-jong and Kim Gwang-hyun in 8 years. It was a game that could be stressful. Yang Hyeon-jong, who met after the game, talked about his own condition and the good condition of the beasts, saying, “It wasn’t a big burden. I thought more about power analysis because I was fighting with the batters, not with the opposing pitcher.”
But it’s not that I didn’t care at all. Ang Hyeon-jong said, “I wanted to win,” and “I don’t think I would have met him even if I kept going around the rotation. It would be burdensome for me and Gwanghyeon to meet each other. I wish I hadn’t played this game. I want to win, and Gwanghyeon wins, and I hope there will be only good results for each other.”메이저사이트
Until 8 years ago, Kim Gwang-hyun and Yang Hyeon-jong met a total of 6 times. Eight years ago in Gwangju, Hyeonjong Yang laughed. Hyeonjong Yang laughed again this time. Until this day’s game, Kim Gwang-hyun recorded 2 wins and 4 losses, and Yang Hyeon-jong recorded 3 wins and 2 losses.
Yang Hyeon-jong said, “I used to be a rival. He had been told that since he was in high school. Now we are both old and there are a lot of younger players. Rather than the expression of a rival, I think of it as a companion who has been playing baseball for a long time.”
“Young players are coming up,” he said. I hope both Kwanghyeon and I don’t get sick and always do well. He wants to play baseball for a long time.”
On this day, Yang Hyeon-jong pitched 8 innings in 933 days after the game against LG in Jamsil on October 18, 2020, and recorded double digits in 977 days after recording 6 innings and 10 strikeouts in the first game of the double header against Sajik Lotte on September 4, 2020. He announced his ace status by striking out. His most strikeouts in a single game is 12.