Ryu Joong Il-ho will make Premier 12 appearance...Ko Young-pyo will catch Taiwan in the first game
Ryu Joong Il-ho will make Premier 12 appearance...Ko Young-pyo will catch Taiwan in the first game
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Finally, Ryu Joong-il will play in the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12. The starting pitcher for the first game against Taiwan is Ko Young-pyo (kt Wiz).먹튀검증
The Korean national baseball team will play the first Group A match against the host country Taiwan at 7:30 p.m. on the 13th (Korea time).
Coach Ryu Joong-il, who was struggling between Ko Young-pyo and Kwak Bin (Doosan Bears), eventually selected Ko Young-pyo as the starter for the first round of the middle school.
Ko Young-pyo is a proven sidearm starting pitcher who has won more than 10 games for three consecutive years from the 2021 to 2023 KBO League season.
Ko Young-pyo, who first wore the national flag through the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, joined the national team until the Premier 12 following the 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC).
Ko's main weapon, change-up, is one of the best in the league, and he used change-up several times at international competitions to effectively block rival batters. Batters facing Ko for the first time have difficulty targeting his powerful change-up.
Ko Young-pyo said on the 7th, "In the past, Taiwanese players have shown weakness in side-arm pitchers' changeups," adding, "If I play against Taiwan, I have to make good use of my strengths."
Ko Young-pyo, who will open the first Premier 12 match of the national team, will also take the mound as a starter in the fifth group match against Australia on the 18th.
In the Ryu Joong-il issue, the match against Taiwan had more than one game meaning. The first step is necessary to ensure smooth progress of the tournament.
In international competitions, where our national team has historically suffered, we always missed victory from the first game.
It started with the Sapporo Asian Championship in 2003, the Doha Asian Games in 2006, and the past three WBCs.
It lost 0-5 to the Netherlands in its first WBC match in 2013, lost 1-2 to Israel in 2017, and ended the tournament early in the first round, losing 7-8 to Australia in last year's tournament.
According to the KBO, the Korean baseball team has won 26 games (16 losses) against the Taiwanese national team 42 times.
have a substantial advantage against each other.
In the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, 2014 Incheon Asian Games, and last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, I also remember winning the gold medal by beating Taiwan in the final.
Nevertheless, he is not an opponent that can be easily seen as an easy target. Opponents in the past five games are slightly behind by posting two wins and three losses.
Before the first training session for the Korean national team on April 24, Ryu said, "When I saw the Taiwanese national team, I got a lot better at basic skills. In the past, I felt like I was playing baseball only with my strength, but I feel like I am playing Japanese baseball a lot."
The Taiwanese national team is likely to have left-hander Lin Yu-min (Arizona Diamondbacks) as the starting pitcher.
Lin Yu-min started both games against South Korea at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year and took one win and one loss.
At that time, the South Korean batter only had four hits in six innings against Lin Yu-min, who uses various breaking balls such as sliders and changeups over 150 kilometers per hour in the preliminary round of the tournament, and failed to get any points.
Manager Ryu said, "I think a left-handed pitcher (Lin Yu-min) will come out as a starter in Taiwan, but I've played against him twice in the Asian Games, so I'll prepare well."
Ryu will play the first match of the championship against Taiwan, followed by Cuba on Wednesday, Japan on Wednesday, the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, and Australia on Wednesday. No team is easy.
In order for the national team to get its hands on the semifinal, it must make every effort to win the first game.