I don’t know baseball. Ryu Hyun-jin, 36, of the Toronto Blue Jays, went for his fourth win of the season against the team with the worst winning percentage in the majors, but was brought to his knees by a solo home run by Thurman.
Ryu started against the Oakland Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday (July 7), allowing two runs on five hits (one home run) with one walk and five strikeouts in five innings.
After dominating the underdog Oakland through three innings, Ryu gave up a two-run homer to Carlos Perez in the bottom of the fourth to give Toronto a 1-0 lead.
Toronto’s bats, meanwhile, struggled against Oakland’s rookie starter JP Sears, who had a 3-11 record entering the game, scoring just one run through five innings.
Hyun-jin Ryu left the game in the bottom of the fifth inning with Toronto trailing 1-2. Ryu suffered his second loss of the season (3-3) as Toronto fell to Oakland 2-5. His season ERA rose slightly to 2.65.
He totaled 77 pitches (50 strikes). Ryu has yet to go more than six innings in a game this season since returning from injury.
Ryu’s start wasn’t bad.
Ryu finished the first inning with nine pitches. He was matched up against Oakland’s rookie slugger Brent Rooker, who had been a breakout star earlier in the season.
Facing Rooker in the first inning, Ryu mixed a curveball, changeup, and cut fastball for a two-pitch, two-strike count, then unleashed a 146 mph fastball right down the middle. Rooker didn’t read the timing and struck out looking.바카라
Toronto struck first in the top of the second inning on Ernie Clement’s RBI single with runners on first and second. As the bats came alive, Ryu continued his good work.
Ryu got out of the second inning with one strikeout. Ryu’s shrewd maneuvering was highlighted when he got Jordan Diaz to ground out to short.
On a two-ball, two-strike pitch, Ryu threw a slow 62.5-mile-per-hour curveball for a foul ball. He followed that up with a 145-mile-per-hour fastball to the center of the strike zone, and once again, the batter couldn’t get a timing on the fastball.
One out later in the inning, Ryu got his first hit off Nick Allen, the No. 8 hitter. He got Esteemed Lewis, who leads the American League in stolen bases, to fly out to right field, but then allowed Allen to steal second. It was the first time Ryu had allowed a stolen base this season.
Ryu didn’t falter in the scoring position. He got Zack Geloff to ground out to short to put out the fire. On a two-ball, two-strike count, a cut fastball was accurately placed in the outside zone.
But Ryu’s momentum was cut short by a thunderous home run.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Ryu was hit by a leadoff double to left-center field. The defense helped him out. On Ryan Noda’s infield single, first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a daring throw to third to nab the lead runner. Ryu then got Diaz to fly out to right field.
However, Ryu gave up a wild pitch on Perez’s at-bat. He threw a well-pitched 145-kilometer per hour fastball low and away from the right-hander’s body, and Perez pulled it hard with a precise swing.
The crisis continued. Ryu gave up an infield single to Kevin Smith and a walk to Jonah Bride to put runners in scoring position again, but he got Allen to ground out to shortstop to put out the fire.
In the bottom of the fifth, Ryu gave up a leadoff single to Lewis. In a battle between Ryu and Dae-Do, who has good stolen base defense, Lewis won. Lewis stole second base with time to spare.
Ryu concentrated and struck out the next two batters. His feet never stopped moving. Noda used his incredible base running to steal third base. The steal came just in time for the catcher to throw the ball back to the pitcher after Ryu had thrown the ball.
However, Ryu didn’t panic and got Noda to fly out to center field to end the threat once again.
Ryu’s job was done until the fifth inning. Toronto quickly turned to their bullpen as Ryu was getting into trouble in the fourth inning.
However, Trevor Richards, who relieved Ryu, gave up a three-run homer to Kevin Smith in the bottom of the sixth to end Toronto’s hopes.
No Responses