Ryu Hyun-jin, 33, of the Toronto Blue Jays in the Major Leagues, confirmed their team's postseason (PS) appearance with the most dazzling counterattack this season, and captured two rabbits, the first ever victory against the New York Yankees.
Ryu Hyun-jin started at the home game against the New York Yankees in the 2020 Major League, held at Sailon Field in Buffalo, New York, USA, and fought without a run for 7 innings.
They gave 5 hits and 2 walks, but most were allowed after two-outs, greatly reducing the chances of a goal.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who threw 7 innings for the first time as a Toronto pitcher this year, cut the number of pitches to exactly 100, with 4 strikeouts.
Ryu Hyun-jin came down from the mound with the requirement to win a 4-0 lead, and the team won a 4-1 victory and recorded his first win against the Yankees in his fourth career appearance.
Until the day before, Ryu Hyun-jin was very weak against the Yankees with 2 losses, 7 homers and an average ERA of 8.80.
However, in an important game where the team was confirmed to advance to the postseason, Ryu Hyun-jin again proved that he was also a strong pitcher in the big game by giving him a fantastic pitch with no goal.
Toronto, headed by ace Ryu Hyun-jin, cleared the magic number 1 and won the 8th seed in the American League, advancing to the postseason four years since 2016 and playing fall baseball.
As a free agent at the end of last year, Ryu Hyun-jin, who wore a Toronto uniform for 4 years and 80 million dollars, in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), played in 12 games in the regular league in the first year of the transfer, which was played in a 60-game mini-season per team. He posted an outstanding average of 2.69 ERA.
Ryu Hyun-jin is preparing for the first leg of the Wild Card (WC) series (2 wins of 3 matches), the first gateway to the postseason that will kick off on the 30th.
On this day, Ryu Hyun-jin confronted Kang-ho Yankees hitters with a cut fastball slider (based on MLB Game Day pitching analysis) that bends sharply toward the body of the batter with his right hand and a sophisticated change-up falling on the outside.
Ryu Hyun-jin focused on throwing low in the first inning, conscious of the fact that he allowed a continuous hitter home run after throwing a high fastball once in the match against the Yankees on the 8th.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who caught the lead DJ Lumeihue as a floating ball in left field, threw a change-up to Luke Voight and Aaron Hicks, who hit home runs in the last pitch, and cooked each with a ground ball and strikeouts.
Ryu Hyun-jin faced a crisis by giving Hio Ursela a double in the middle after two outs, but right-hander Clint Fraser struck out with a slider flowing from full count to his body and sighed.
In the 3rd inning, Voight, who met for the second time in two-out first base, was lured into a curve and caught the ground ball at third base, continuing a zero-running march.
Ryu Hyun-jin walked after two-outs four times and five times in a row, but ended the inning by guiding the opponents to ground ball.
Episode 6 was the highlight of the day.
Ryu Hyun-jin was hit by Voight and Hicks in a row with the start of the 6th inning, hitting the highest point on this day.
However, in the crisis of desperate despair, Ryu Hyun-jin struck out Stanton with 3 balls with the 4th batter long knife.
I grabbed the strike with two fast balls that struck the ball, and pulled out a miss swing with a cutter that digs into the body.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who caught Glaber Torres with a floating ball in right field, extinguished the fire by treating Ursela with a powerless second baseman ground ball in the first and third bases.
Ryu Hyun-jin, who broke expectations and appeared in the 7th inning, gave a heavy hit to the lead Fraser, but after one-out, he played a pinch hitter Aaron Judge and Rumay Hue in a row with a right fielder flying ball.
The Toronto batsman also intensively scored and empowered the ace.
In the second inning, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. blew a solo arch over the middle left fence to score the lead, and in the third one-out situation, when Cavern Vizio opened an additional point with a mid-month double hit, Bo Visset ran to 2-0. I hit a double.
The Toronto hitting line added 2 points to the end of the 6th inning to lighten Ryu's shoulders.
After a series of hits by Randall Grichic and Guerrero Jr., prospect Alejandro Kirk struck a sweeping double through the zazen to bring two runners home.
The Toronto club praised Ryu Hyun-jin's backlash, saying, "This is what Ace does" on their Twitter account.
(Photo = Getty Image Korea, Toronto Blue Jays Club Twitter Capture, Yonhap News)