Na Gyun-ahn (26, Lotte Giants) suffered a "nightmare first inning.
Na took the loss against the KIA Tigers in the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at KIA Champions Field in Gwangju on Sunday, giving up six runs (three earned) on seven hits (one home run) with three walks and four strikeouts in five innings. Aside from the six runs in the first inning, he pitched well.
The personal life controversy that broke out in February has not been resolved. He is currently at odds with his wife. Since no definitive conclusion has been reached, he is playing normally. In the exhibition games, he didn't fare so well, going 1-1 with a 4.32 ERA in two games.
In his first start, he gave up an error in the first inning. Two batters later, he walked Socrates Brito to load the bases. Choi Hyung-woo batted, and a forked ball was misplayed by catcher Yoo Kang-nam. Socrates stole second, and when the forkball fell slightly short of the six-pitch count, Choi was forced to give up a leadoff double to left.
That should have been the end of the inning, but it wasn't. He walked Lee Woo-sung to open the inning and Kim Sun-bin to load the bases. He then fired a cutter to Hwang Dae-in and induced a hard fly ball to left-center field. The ball was in the light and Lotte left fielder Go Seung-min couldn't catch it.
Bad luck for Na Kyun-ahn. However, Go Seung-min's home run was accurate. LOTTE needed 토토사이트 to allow Lee Woo-sung to score from second base but not allow Kim Sun-bin to score from first base. However, Yoo Kang-nam failed to make a good catch on Go Seung-min's exquisite one-bound home run. He dropped it in the grund and had to clear home plate to retrieve it, while Kim also swept home plate.
0-4. Na Gyun-an, who had lost his groove, threw a cutter to Kim Tae-gun for a single down the left-field line, but was unable to get a good throw to Choi Won-joon, who had a bad at-bat. A walk was allowed. Park Chan-ho used a fastball cutter and got a single to left field.
Still, Na Gyun-ahn was able to keep the game scoreless from the second through the fifth innings. It didn't matter that the bullpen was activated early on as the game was well in hand. In the second inning, Na struck out Lee Woo-sung on a 143-kilometer fastball with one out. He threw 13 pitches through the third and fourth innings. In the fourth inning, Socrates made a bad throw to first base, but it didn't affect the flow of the game. In the fifth inning, he turned to his forkball and didn't allow another run, ending his first start of the season.