A record that only Seon Dong-yeol has in the 43-year history of the KBO League. SSG Landers Drew Anderson is challenging it.
Anderson appeared as a starting pitcher in the home game against Lotte Giants held at Incheon SSG Landers Field on the 1st, and recorded 6⅓ innings, 3 hits, 10 strikeouts, 2 walks, and 1 run before leaving.
Anderson struck out a whopping 10 batters against Lotte batters on this day. He struck out the first batter he faced in the top of the 1st inning. He threw a 128km curveball on the 4th pitch to Lotte’s leadoff batter Yoon Dong-hee with 1B2S and struck him out swinging.
In the 2nd inning, he struck out Son Ho-young and Park Seung-wook swinging, and in the 3rd inning, he struck out Yoon Dong-hee and Ko Seung-min swinging consecutively.
The strikeout streak continued. In the 4th inning, he struck out Jeon Jun-woo and Victor Reyes, and in the 5th inning, he struck out Son Ho-young and Jo Bo-geun again. All of them were swing strikeouts. Anderson, who also appeared in the 7th inning, walked the first batter, Reyes, and struck out Na Seung-yeop again swinging.
His 10th strikeout.
Then, Son Ho-young’s hit was dropped by left fielder Heredia, making it a 1-RBI double, and he finished his appearance that day by coming down from the mound at 2B to the next batter, Jeong Hoon.
With this, Anderson achieved the record of 4 consecutive double-digit strikeouts. It is the second record in KBO League history. He recorded 10 strikeouts in the Incheon Lotte game on July 11, 11 strikeouts in the Incheon Kiwoom Heroes game on July 19, and 11 strikeouts in the Incheon Doosan Bears game on July 26, and has recorded 10 or more strikeouts in four consecutive recent games.
In the 43-year history of the KBO League, only the ‘legend’ Sun Dong-yeol has achieved this feat. Sun Dong-yeol recorded double-digit strikeouts in five consecutive games from the Daejeon Binggrae Eagles game on August 8, 1991 to the Incheon Pacific Dolphins game on August 30.
There were five pitchers who recorded double-digit strikeouts in three consecutive games. LG Kim Ki-beom , Lotte Joo Hyung-kwang 토토사이트 추천 , SK Yoon Hee-sang, Doosan Nippert, Doosan Miranda. Current Lotte pitching coach Joo Hyung-kwang is the only pitcher to have recorded double-digit strikeouts in three consecutive games twice during his active career. Anderson surpassed them and rose to sole second place. Since the record continued in the Lotte game, if he records double-digit strikeouts in his next appearance, he will be on par with Sun Dong-yeol.
At the same time,
He set a new KBO League record for the fewest innings pitched: 100 strikeouts. Anderson broke the record for the fewest innings pitched by Hanwha’s Koo Dae-sung in 1996 (68⅓ innings) after only 65 innings since his KBO League debut.
SSG decided to replace Robert Dugger, who was recruited ahead of this season, when he was extremely sluggish in the beginning of the season, and immediately recruited Anderson. Anderson made his KBO League debut on May 10 against KIA (3 innings, no runs), and is currently showing a solid presence as SSG’s first starter.