Kia Tigers foreign pitcher James Nail cried again after an error by the defense.
Nail started the game against the KT Wiz of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) 2024 at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on Sunday, but was pulled in the fourth inning. He allowed eight runs on 12 hits (one home run) with two walks and eight strikeouts in 3⅔ innings. He gave up a lot of hits, but they were hard-hit. Most importantly, defensive errors led to a lot of runs. He took the loss, going 2-13.
It started badly in the first inning. The leadoff hitter, Rojas, singled to center field. The next batter, Kang Baek-ho, hit a ground ball to center field, but the center fielder, Park Jung-woo, followed the ball and failed to catch it. The error allowed the runner at first to advance to third and the batter to advance to second. Jang Jang-woo hit an infield grounder to score the go-ahead run and Oh Jae-il singled to right. In the second inning, back-to-back singles by Hwang Jae-gyun and Choi Jae-dae gave up three runs.
All three runs were unearned.
In the third inning, Oh gave up a home run to left and back-to-back singles to Kim Min-hyuk and Hwang Jae-gyun to put runners on first and third with no outs. Third baseman Kim Do-young, who caught a grounder from Bae Jae-dae, tagged out the runner at third and threw the ball to first base for an error. Two batters later, Shim Woo-jun hit an RBI double that was misplayed.
In the fourth inning, Oh Jae-il doubled to right-center and was followed by Kim Min-hyuk who singled to center. Park Jung-woo, who has a strong shoulder, 안전한 파워볼사이트 delivered an accurate delivery to home plate, but this time catcher Kim Tae-goon failed to make the catch, allowing another run to score. Pitching coach Jung Jae-hoon came out from the bench and announced a change. Only two of the eight runs were earned due to three errors.
It was an uncharacteristic rush of errors against KT.
On April 3, he won the Suwon game with six innings and one run, but it was an unearned run due to Kim Sun-bin’s error. On May 2 in Gwangju, all six runs in 6⅓ innings were unearned. The runs came from his own errors and those of Kim Do-young and Seo Gun-chang. On June 1, one run in the seventh inning of the Gwangju game was also unearned. It was due to an error by Kim Do-young.
In all four games against KT, he gave up 16 runs, but only two were unearned. Even when he pitched against other teams, he made a lot of mistakes. The Nail had 42 earned runs out of 69 up until this game. That’s a difference of 27 runs. It has become a routine for the defense to be shaky when Nail is on the mound. Manager Lee Bum-ho was so worried about Nail’s faltering defense that he made a defense-oriented starting lineup, but the mistakes didn’t decrease. It’s easy to see why Nail’s mind is set on a stern, determined look.