His strength was clear. However, his weaknesses were clear. New foreign pitcher Alec Gamboa of the Lotte Giants displayed strong presence and cancer in his first appearance. He has agonized over how to maximize his strength and offset his weaknesses in the future. 메이저사이트

Gamboa started the game against the Samsung Lions at the Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on Sunday, and pitched 89 pitches during four ⅔ innings, allowing five hits, one walk, two strikeouts and four runs. After an unsatisfactory debut game, he ended up witnessing his team's 3-7 defeat. He was left with the yoke of a losing pitcher.

On the day, Gamboa threw powerful fastballs with speeds of up to 155 kilometers. Even when Samsung's batters knew this and entered the batter's box, he could not easily hit the batter's box. He displayed sharpness of sliders up to 145 kilometers and sufficient curves to lose timing. He displayed 45 fastballs, 27 sliders, 13 curves, and four changeups on the day. 

The problem was Gamboa's showdown with right-handed hitters on the day. Gamboa was close to perfection against Kim Ji-chan, Kim Sung-yoon, and Ryu Ji-hyuk, who are Samsung's flagship players and all left-handed hitters. He didn't even get a positive hit. His combination of fastballs and sliders completely robbed him of his timing. 

However, he struggled against right-handed hitters, causing a crisis to himself. After striking out leadoff hitter Kim Ji-chan in the first inning, he was disadvantaged by Lee Jae-hyun with three balls, and allowed a heavy hit in the end. He eventually caused trouble in the second inning. After the second inning with one out, Kang Min-ho hit the right-handed. After dealing with Ryu Ji-hyuk directly with a ground ball to the pitcher, he gave up a hit to the right-handed side to right-handed batter Park Seung-gyu, facing a crisis with two outs and runners on the first and second bases. He then strongly threw a 144 km slider in the count in his favor of one ball and two strikes, and hit Lee Seong-gyu's right foot. The pitch that hit Lee Seong-gyu was on the verge of loading the bases with two outs.

In the end, he led Kim Ji-chan to a missed pitcher ground ball with the bases loaded with two outs, but it became an infield hit, and the first baseman failed to catch the ball, and Lotte's infield team was in a mess, so second baseman Park Seung-kyu swept home. 

Since then, right-handed batter Lee Jae-hyun has been allowed to walk again, continuing the two-out full base crisis. Here came the scene in question. Gamboa is doing a routine of bending her waist like a folder during the setup process before pitching. This was the same when there was no runner, as well as when there was a runner on the floor. He lowers his head and moves his legs. It is difficult to identify the positions of the runners and release his feet. 

Samsung did not miss this opportunity. Coach Lee Jong-wook and Lee Sung-kyu took advantage of Gamboa's bending down to rush home. Catcher Yoo Kang-nam confirmed this and stood up to call Gamboa, but Gamboa did not hear it and was too late to grasp the situation. He lost a point without making a single throw. It was the ninth time in the 44-year history of the KBO league. Gamboa was shaken afterwards and allowed four runs due to wild pitches. 

Except for the second inning, Gamboa had no run. With one out in the fifth inning, he sent out Kim Sung-yoon due to a shortstop error and even allowed Diaz to hit the ball. With one out and runners on the first and second bases, he struck out Kim Young-woong. He threw 89 pitches and right-handed batter Kang Min-ho stepped down from the mound. He threw more than 150 kilometers of fastballs in the fifth inning, confirming that there is no problem with the stamina. 

The ball itself was powerful enough to strike out nine on the day. In addition to the ball speed, he was a pitcher with a ball power, and the completion of the breaking ball was not bad. However, the weaknesses of the right-handed batter and the problems when there was a runner were too clear. The KBO League does not condone such laxity of pitchers. It is certain that the setup motion that bends down when a runner is on the second or third base will continue to bother Gamboa. Changing his form overnight is also a sensitive factor for pitchers. However, unless the setup motion is changed, the team will have to face the risk of a runner and a stolen base on the floor. 

We need to reaffirm how he struggled against right-handed hitters. For now, Gamboa had a batting average of 211 percent against right-handed hitters in the Minor League this year and a WHIP of 1.24. He is the same as his record of 20% against left-handed hitters and WHIP of 1.50. Last year, he had a batting average of 256 against right-handed hitters, a WHIP of 1.40 against left-handed hitters, a batting average of 2338 against left-handed hitters, and a WHIP of 1.36 against left-handed hitters. It was safe to say that he is a pitcher whose split between right and left-handed hitters is almost identical.

Even if it was one game, the appearance of facing left-handed hitters and right-handed hitters was different.