Nail made his KBO league debut at a home game against the Lotte Giants held at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field on the 27th of last month. While displaying effective pitching against Lotte's batters, he recorded five hits (one homer) and nine strikeouts and one run in six innings, and even earned his first win.
The trend continued until his second appearance. In the game against the KT Wiz in Suwon on Tuesday, Nail took the mound as the starting pitcher, and garnered his second win of the season by allowing one run (non-earned) with five hits, seven strikeouts and no outs in six innings. He threw 93 pitches, which was more than the previous game (85 pitches), but he met his team's expectations by displaying clean pitching without four outs. He had as many as 16 strikeouts during the two games. He had no walks during the period.
Nail relieved two concerns through the process of winning two games.
Up until the exhibition game, there was a question mark about whether Nail would adapt to the KBO league. Nail left a regret with one win, one loss, one hold and an ERA of 5.23 in three exhibition games. Notably, in the game against the Doosan Bears on April 14, his second appearance in the exhibition game, he gave up eight hits, one out and four strikeouts, and six runs in three ⅓ innings. As batters aggressively dealt with Nail's pitching, he quickly pulled Nail off the mound.
However, Nail, who showed confidence in her ball control, made a breakthrough through various pitches. Although she did not stand out in terms of career experience or ball power compared to Will Crow, another foreign player, she confused batters by actively utilizing two-seam, change-up, and cutter, as well as her main weapons, sweeper.
Worrying about digesting innings has also disappeared. Nail spent most of her time as a bullpen pitcher at Triple-A (35 starts for six seasons in total, 120 bullpen games), and since the opening of the season, she has managed the number of innings and pitches perfectly, achieving quality start for two consecutive games. Now, the mood has changed to the extent that Nail, not Crow, is considered the de facto first starter of the team.
Now, Nail is taking the mound twice a week to speed up the process of increasing wins. She will have her first showdown with the LG Twins of this season, which will take place at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field on Saturday. If scheduled, she will have a showdown with Ricardo Sanchez on Saturday at the Daejeon Hanwha Eagles match after a four-day break.
Both LG and Hanwha are teams that have not bad batting trends, especially LG, which bombed the NC Dinos and KT Wiz mound with 49 points in six games last week. All batters' conditions have come up, so they need to be vigilant with their nails.
Given the team's circumstances, Nail's pitching is more urgent than ever for Kia. Kia has been on the rise since the opening of the season, but suffered its first consecutive defeat of the season as it lost at the match against the Samsung Lions in Gwangju on June 6-7. Attention is focusing on whether Kia's plan to change the atmosphere with the ace will go smoothly. https://www.totositenet.com/
Присоединяйтесь к ОК, чтобы посмотреть больше фото, видео и найти новых друзей.
Нет комментариев