LG Son Joo-young, who pitched 7 scoreless innings, said, "My goal this season is to win 15 games."

LG Son Joo-young, who pitched 7 scoreless innings, said, "My goal this season is to win 15 games."

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LG Twins' Son Joo-young won his first victory of the season with seven scoreless innings.

Son Joo-young started the home game against the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 23rd, throwing 96 pitches in seven innings, giving up only one hit and allowing two outs and five strikeouts.먹튀검증

He walked the first batter in the first and second innings in a row, but immediately caught the next batter with a double play, and in the third inning, he allowed Jeon Min-jae to double, the only hit of the day, after two outs, but returned the next batter, Yoon Dong-hee, with a foul fly to first base.

After that, he ended the inning with four consecutive three-and-out innings from the fourth inning to the seventh inning.

This was the result of Son Joo-young's performance from the first game of the season when LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said on the media day on the 20th, "This year will be a season where Son Joo-young will grow into Korea's representative left-hander."

Son Joo-young said in an interview after the game, "I didn't know how to throw seven innings, but I threw more because it was 85 pitches until the sixth inning and the score difference was five points," adding, "I used less effort in the first and second innings, so my physical strength remained."

"In the beginning, I couldn't catch my fastball, but coach Kim Kwang-sam advised me to throw aggressively because I have power in my fastball, and even if the opponent hits me, there will be a lot of fouls," he said, adding, "I threw it at a low speed, but the ball speed came out well and the count was good."

Son Joo-young, who played 9-10 with an average earned run score of 3.79 last season, performed particularly well in the postseason, but he failed to join the Premier 12 national team after being replaced by elbow pain in the fourth round of the playoffs with the Samsung Lions.

Looking back on the off-season rehabilitation and training process, Son Joo-young said, "So I trained while waiting for today," adding, "The off-season training is hard and tiring, but it's rewarding, and I think I'll work harder after this season."

"I definitely have a sense of responsibility and focus because the heat is definitely hot," he said, "I also want to do better against Lotte."

Sohn Joo-young, a native of Gyeongnam High School who recently won three consecutive games against Lotte, explained why he is strong against Lotte, saying, "I think I'm paying more attention and throwing hard because I'm a hometown team."

When asked about this year's goal, he said, "I'm going to throw more than 160 innings for 15 wins and the team goes to the Korean Series," adding, "It's helpful because the coach said a lot of motivating things."

Son Joo-young added, "The director said, 'You can win 15 games unconditionally, so just prepare well so that you don't get sick,' but I'll burn up."

Regarding the World Baseball Classic (WBC), which will be held in March 2026, he also vowed, "You said you want to go unconditionally and you have to do well in the season to go, so I will do well in the regular season first."