Samsung Lions’ foreign pitcher Connor Seabold had a rough home opener.
After pitching six innings of four-hit ball (one homer), eight strikeouts and two runs (one earned) in the regular season opener against KT on April 23, his debut, Connor was shaken by a five-inning, nine-hit, two-walk, one-strikeout performance against SSG in Daegu on April 29, giving up three home runs.
It was a shaky start. In the first inning, he threw a fastball to the first batter, Choi Ji-hoon, and was hit by a Woo Woo solo arch. Park Sung-sung singled and Choi Jung singled to center to put runners on first and second with no outs, but Connor gave up a single to Ha Jae-hoon, who threw out Park Sung-sung at third base for the final out.
With runners on second and third, 토토사이트 he gave up a three-run arch to Han Yoo-seom. On a 2B-0S count, he threw a three-pitch fastball, but it sailed over the right-field wall. Connor induced Kang Jin-seong and Ko Myung-joon to fly out to center field to end the first inning.
In the second inning,
Lee Ji-young singled and Choi Ji-hoon singled to right to put runners on first and second, but Connor got Park Sung-han and Choi Jung to fly out to center field.
After giving up a solo arch to leadoff hitter Ha Jae-hoon in the third inning, Connor gave up his fifth run of the game, stranding two runners on base on a walk to Han Yoo-seom and a single by Kang Jin-sung. He induced Ko Myung-joon to fly out to center field and then got Lee Ji-young to ground out to third.
In the fourth inning, Kim Sung-hyun, Choi Ji-hoon, and Park Sung-sung were retired in order to complete the first three-hit shutout inning. In the fifth inning, Connor retired the leadoff batter, Choi Jung, on a fly ball to right field, then gave up a double to left-center to Ha Jae-hoon, but retired Han Yoo-seom and Kang Jin-seong on a grounder to second and a fly ball to right, respectively.
Connor gave way to Choi Ha-neul in the sixth inning, trailing 1-5. Connor threw 82 pitches on the day, 56 for strikes. He topped out at 151 mph and threw a mix of sliders, 안전한 파워볼사이트 cut fastballs, and changeups.
Samsung fell 4-6 in a two-hitter. Samsung rallied with an RBI single by Ahn Joo-hyung in the second inning, a two-run arch to center by Kim Young-woong in the seventh and a solo shot to left by Koo Ja-rook in the eighth, but couldn’t create any drama. It was Samsung’s third straight loss since April 26 against LG Electronics in Jamsil.