Yang Hyun-jong, first starter 3⅓innings with 5 hits and 2 runs

Yang Hyun-jong (33, Texas Rangers) left a regrettable result in the first start of the major league (MLB) demonstration game.

On the 25th (Korean time), Yang Hyun-jong started with the Cincinnati Reds at Goodyear Ball Park in Arizona, USA, and scored five hits, two strikeouts, and two runs without a walk during the third and third innings. The average ERA in the demonstration games rose from 3.00 to 3.86.

Yang Hyun-jong appeared as a bullpen pitcher three times in the previous demonstration game. With more and more innings, he made a stable pitch and received the eye of coach Chris Woodward. “It will be the most important day for evaluating him,” Woodward said of Yang Hyun-jong’s first starting game.

The start was good. Yang Hyeon-jong got a heavy hit by Nicolas Castellanos after one shot in the first inning, and the other three batters were safely out. He struck out the opponent’s 4th batter Eugenio Suarez from 2nd first base and ended the inning without a goal.

It was regrettable that the 2nd episode allowed concentrated hits. After one death, he scored a heavy hit by Tyler Stevenson, a left-handed double by Tyler Nakin, and a right-hand hit by Aristides Aquino in an instant.

In the continuing first- and third-base crisis, he seemed to take a sigh by striking Alex Blendino, but he lost one more point by giving D Strange-Gordon a timely double on the right-field. At this time, Texas right fielder Joey Carlo’s exact throw gave first base runner Aquino a cross at home and the innings ended.

Yang Hyeon-jong regained his composure again. In the third inning, all three batters were cut off with a ground ball and treated as a triple. The fourth inning lead hitter Tucker Vanhart out with a ground ball at second base, then handed the mound to the next pitcher Brett The Gus.

Reporter Bae Youngeun [email protected]