There has been no foreign pitcher so far. Hanwha Eagles ‘Ace’ Codyse Ponse, 31, broke down the season’s undefeated record by changing the winning wins of the KBO League.
Hanwha won 2-0 in the 2025 KBO League Lotte Giants at the Hanwha Life Ball Park on the 12th. Hanwha, who kept the second place in the league, widened the gap with Lotte in the third place by 5.5 games. Lotte lost four consecutive loses due to the defeat.
Ponde, who started his start, struggled with seven innings and three hits and two shots, and won 15 wins (0 losses) in the season. The average ERA is 1.61. On March 28, Ponde, who won the league for the first time in the KIA Tigers and the home game, scored 15 consecutive wins until the game, and set the most winning winning wins since the opening. The previous records were 14 consecutive wins by Jung Min -tae (at the time Hyundai Unicorns) and Hector Noesi (at that time KIA Tigers) in 2017.
Ponde caught nine strikeouts in the game and set another record of 200 strikeouts in 23 games. This is a record shortening of 25 games in Ariel Miranda (at the time Doosan Bears) in 2021, with the largest number of strikeouts (225) in a single season. If you’re a pace of this season, breaking the most strikeout records in a single season seems to be a matter of time. The record of 200 strikeouts in a single season is also a valuable record of 16 times.
Ponde’s Hutu gave Kim Kyung -moon a gift of 1000 wins. It is the oldest record of all time and the third record of the league following Kim Eung -yong (1554 wins) and Kim Sung -geun (1388 wins). Kim, who was in charge of the Doosan Bears Command Tower in 2004, scored 1,000 wins and 34 draws and 860 losses in 1894 games.
Meanwhile, LG Twins’ new foreign pitcher Anders Toll Hurst, 26, started a visit to Katie and Katie at Suwon Katie (KT) Wiz Park, and received a passing score for seven innings and two hits and seven strikeouts. LG won Katie 11-2 with Tolhurst’s Hutto.
LG, the first -place League fight against Hanwha and Lotte, released Elizer Hernandez on the 3rd and recruited toilhest as a ‘winner’. Tolhurst has no big league experience, but he has played in 92 games in the minor league four seasons, scoring 15 wins and 10 losses. Tolhurst’s joining, which made a perfect debut on the day, is expected to speed up LG’s run for two years.
By Son Hyun -soo, Byunsoo@hani.co.kr