The ball reached the maximum speed of 157 kilometers per hour. It was not easy to hit the ball. What are you doing then? You can't throw it where you can hit the bat. Yoon Seong-bin (26), who seemed to be Lotte's "not-sharp lottery" in the professional baseball league, had to bow his head again due to his chronic weakness in ball control. He scratched the ball, but lost nine runs (nine earned runs) in one inning, which was a fail.스포츠토토
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on Tuesday. Lotte starter Yoon Sung-bin finishes the inning after allowing three runs in the top of the first inning. Yonhap News
Yoon started in an away game against LG in the 2025 KBO League held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on Tuesday. It was his first appearance in the first division this season.
Yoon was offered to join the team by U.S. Major League teams when he was a high school student, but he joined the team after receiving the first nomination from Lotte in 2017. Since his high school days, he has been famous for his fastballs measuring 1 meter 97 meters tall and over 150 kilometers. He has one potential that only occurs once in 10 years.
The ball was fast, but there was a problem. To throw a strike well is no use if the ball is not thrown well. No matter how fast the ball is, it is of no use if the ball is not thrown. Before the game on the day, his career performance in the Korean pro baseball league was all about 21 games, including two wins and seven losses with an ERA of 7.47. Just by looking at the walks he gave up as many as 42 times while pitching in 53 innings, his ball control is showing his poor performance. In 2018, his second year alone, he played in 18 games, and only one game was played in the Korean pro baseball league in 2019, 2021 and 2024. He is considered to be the top class in the Korean pro baseball league, but he could hardly be used in the pro baseball league due to his ball control.
Yoon started off with Futures again this season, but his pitching was good. He pitched 21.1 innings in six games, posting an ERA of 2.11. He has a whopping 40 strikeouts, or 16.9 per nine innings. However, he was reluctant to yield 19 walks, which is close to one per inning, in terms of his chronic illness. There was only one key. How long do you not yield a walk.
It was the first mound in the first team in a long time. He was perfect until he threw nine balls. While throwing a 146 km forkball at 0B-2S to LG's No. 2 hitter Moon Sung-joo, Park struck out both No. 1 and No. 3 Kim Hyun-soo, with three strikeouts. Park displayed outstanding pitching capabilities, with three four core positions of 157, 156, and 157 km.
However, that was the end of his career. When he met Moon Bo-kyung No. 4, he started the "ball-net show," an incurable disease. Yoon allowed a straight walk to Moon, and a pitch hit to Oh Ji-hwan, who loaded the bases with two outs, allowing Song to throw a walk. He then threw a 157-kilometer four-seam ball to the center after a full count match against Koo, but if he knows he will throw the four-seam ball, it is not difficult for top-tier hitters to accept it no matter how fast his speed reaches 157 kilometers. Koo hit the ball cleanly, leading to a timely hit among two RBIs. He blocked Ham Chang-gun with a fly ball to the right field on the first pitch, and allowed three runs in the first inning.
It would have been better if he had adjusted his ball control again from the second inning. His ball control did not come back after being shaken up once. He allowed walks to leadoff hitters Lee Joo-heon and Park Hae-min in succession, before getting a timely hit to Moon. He then allowed walks to Kim Hyun-soo and walks to Moon Bo-kyung, resulting in a score of 0-5. When Oh allowed an infield hit, the Lotte bench dropped Yoon from the mound as the scoreboard widened to 0-6.
Taking over the bases loaded with no outs, Park was hit with a bases-loaded walk by Song Chan-ui. Yoon's earned run increased to nine points. Yoon's report card on the day showed that he had four hits and six walks in one inning, with one out, which was hardly comparable to his ball control in the first division mound.
Even if he gave up nine points in one inning, Yoon Sung-bin may be given the next opportunity if he was hit only with a hit without a walk. However, giving up nine runs by allowing six walks and one pitch is quite different. Will Yoon be given another chance to take the mound in the first division.