Cuevas earns SP for the first time in kt, “first leg bullpen experience is useful” (total)

8 innings, 1 run, perfect pitch … cliff final playoff kt salvation

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi In-young = William Cuevas, 30, saved kt wiz from the cliff.

Cuevas started in Game 3 of the 2020 KBO Professional Baseball Postseason Playoffs (PS) (3 wins in 5 games) held at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 12th, throwing 103 balls in 8 innings and 3 hits (1 home run) safely. With two strikeouts on the dune and a run, the Doosan Bears blocked the other line.

KT beat Doosan 5-2 and scored the first postseason victory with Cuevas near perfect. Cuevas became kt’s first postseason winning pitcher.

He was also selected as the first daily playoff player (MVP) by kt.

If kt, who lost in the first and second games, lost the game that day, he had to finish fall baseball as it was.

However, thanks to Cuevas, kt can continue its fall challenge.

It looked completely different.

Cuevas scored 10-8 in this year’s regular season, but in October, he won just 2 losses without winning 5 games.

In the postseason, in the first game of the playoffs on Day 9, he started with a bullpen instead of a starter, and showed only an eager appearance with 1 inning hit, 1 pitch and 2 runs.

However, kt coach Lee Kang-cheol said: “I think I felt a burden in the first game. Even in the first game, the field was not bad,” Cuevas confided.

In the third game, Cuevas threw a more dominant pitch than Doosan’s Raúl Alcántara, who had a head-to-head starter game.

Alcantara, who won many victories in the regular season with 20 wins and 2 losses, lost with 7 hits, 2 walks and 5 strikeouts in 7 games.

Cuevas and Alcantara, who were also former colleagues who ate a pot of rice in kt last year, had a close 0-0 pitching battle until the end of the seventh inning.

However, Cuevas, who stood strong without being shaken by mistakes, laughed.

At the end of the 3rd inning, Cuevas, who passed the crisis at 1st and 2nd base, escaped the crisis alone at the end of the 4th inning, although she was forced to go to 2nd and 2nd base due to her serious throwing error.

At the end of the 6th inning, shortstop Shim Woo-jun’s error and Sue Soo-bin’s sacrifice burned him to face the crisis at 1st and 3rd base, but he also escaped without a goal.

When Cuevas carefully converted 3 batters at the end of the seventh inning, the other line responded with 5 points by beating Alcantara and Doosan’s bullpen in the eighth inning.

Cuevas allowed a solo home run to Jae-won Oh after a throw at the end of the eighth inning, but he came off the mound with a roar to anticipate victory by catching two remaining outcounts without shaking.

After the game, Cuevas said: “Before the game, I was in very good condition. I thought I could play a good game, but actually I got a good result.”

I also enjoyed the confrontation with Alcantara. Cuevas was satisfied with the competition in good faith, saying: “Alcántara is the same team in kt and in the United States, so it seems like an old friend. Instead of competing today, I wanted Alcantara to pitch well, but I’m happy to make a good game. “

In the regular season, 3 games 1 win 1 loss against Doosan was slow with a 5.02 ERA, but Cuevas said: “I didn’t think about the previous games, but I thought it was a new game today. It didn’t change the composition of the team. Thanks to the increase in performance, I did not think of any previous game.

Breathing with the Jang Seong-woo receiver also worked well. Cuevas said, “When I thought things were different from Jang Seong-woo, it came out bad results, but today we were thinking about the same release. It was good.”

There was a move to replace Cuevas with a bullpen on the bench after two deaths in the eighth inning, but Cuevas said he would finish innings alone.

In response to this, Cuevas said: “I was so excited about the game that I was excited, so I thought I could prevent innings well, so I would take responsibility until the end. When I got back to Dougout, I apologized to the pitching coach. and I said, “Sorry, I was excited.” That’s what he said in consideration of the number of pitches.

Being in the bullpen in the first game became a chance for victory in the third game.

“I could feel what the postseason was like when I went into the bullpen in the first game. I went out to the bullpen to help the team and the results weren’t good, but through that experience, I learned to prepare physically and mentally for today’s game.” said.

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