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9.

101 miles.

To be honest, no one had a good grasp of how things were going now, what was happening right before their eyes, or what that restraint meant when the restraint was posted on the billboards at AT&T Park.

There was only one thing I could know for sure.

“It’s 101 miles at the end of the 10th inning… is it impossible without overflowing energy?”

The pitcher on the mound right now, Jin-yong Lee, who threw 101 miles, was not tired at all.

‘No, I can’t.’

Of course, some have tried to deny that fact.

‘I threw more than 100 pitches in 9 innings, but I can’t help but get tired!’

‘If he’s not a monster, that can’t be possible!’

‘It’s overkill. It is clear that he is forcibly squeezing the restraints. If you throw it like that, the ball will be a mess.’

‘Is the electronic sign broken?’

Lee Jin-yong is overdoing it and throws the ball to get the speed limit.

Or it’s happening because there’s a problem with the speed gun, or a problem with the electronic display.

Jinyong Lee showed them repeatedly.

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“strike!”

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“cheek!”

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“Strike, oooh!”

Through his four-seam fastballs with an average speed of 98 mph, and the ball sharply piercing the outside and the body of the batter, Jinyong Lee spoke clearly to those who did not believe and doubt him.

“like!”

Now, let’s start!

In front of Jin-yong Lee’s pitching like that, the words of the Giants fans were stifled.

Until now, every inning, every time Lee Jin-yong appeared, and every time he caught an out, he couldn’t boo.

“ah······.”

Instead, it only exhales sighs.

Even the Mets were the same.

“Wow······.”

Even though they were on the same team, Lee Jin-yong’s appearance was lightly trampling on their common sense and imagination.

What is the impact of the Mets players?

There wasn’t even a sigh.

The Giants players simply looked at Jinyong Lee on the mound with a spirited expression on his face, preparing to face the next batter.

It was around that time.

Bruce Boche, Giants manager, started moving inside the Giants’ dugout, which had turned into a graveyard.

He called the bench coach and whispered a story, and the bench coach immediately called the pitching coach to talk, and at the end of the conversation, the bench coach picked up the phone and the pitching coach approached Madison Bumgarner.

Long conversations were not necessary.

Because no one could be in the dugout who didn’t know what all the work that is happening now means.

Finally, after a long sigh, Madison Bumgarner got up and walked out of the dugout.

‘ah.’

The only warmth that made the Giants’ bench hot, which had cooled down, disappeared, and the faces of the Giants players and coaching staff began to turn pale.

The sound of Madison Bumgarner disappeared into the bench that was now facing the coldest weather.

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“Another 101 miles!”

Jinyong Lee, he threw a 101-mile ball again.

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The moment the ball hit the catcher’s mitt, the referee shouted without hesitation.

“strike!”

With that cry, the referee turned around and swung his fist full of strength and shouted.

“Awww!”

strikeout outcall.

It was a cry that came out of my body.

But no one in the world listened to the referee’s cry. didn’t even look

“Another 101 miles!”

Everyone’s eyes turned to the constraint printed on the electronic signboard, and they listened to the person who took the constraint.

For such people, Jinyong Lee gladly listened.

“like!”

But this time, unlike before, there was no response.

I couldn’t even hear the sighs, let alone the boos I heard throughout today’s game.

In fact, after Jinyong Lee looked around once more, I finished it myself.

“right!”

Kim Jin-ho said at that appearance.

– That’s weird. why can’t you see

Kim Jin-ho looks around as if looking for something. At his words, Jinyong Lee tilted his head.

“Anyone looking for something?”

– No, you should show it around this time.

“What?”

– Someone who is trying to throw a can of beer at you. At the very least, there must be someone who throws hot dogs…

Jin-yong Lee clicked his tongue at Jin-ho’s serious voice.

“You’re talking nonsense again.”

However, contrary to the words, Jinyong Lee also looked at the atmosphere of the audience with a blank eye.

‘Won’t something really fly?’

To be honest, when I think of what Jinyong Lee has done so far, there was nothing strange about flying nachos.

But the Giants fans couldn’t afford to think of such revenge.

Because AT&T Park was a cold land now.

‘Mad Bum!’

And only Madison Bumgarner, the legend of the hot Giants, could break through that cold.

Therefore, the Giants fans wished he would come up and make this atmosphere hot.

But their wish did not come true.

– The Giants put a new pitcher on the mound. Taylor, he became the third pitcher on the mound today.

It was the bullpen pitcher, not Madison Bumgarner, who came on the mound at the beginning of the 11th.

Jinyong Lee and Jinho Kim smiled at that fact.

11.

The Giants, it was clearly a wise and rational decision for them to drop Madison Bumgarner.

“You’re raising Taylor.”

“It would be wise not to post Bumgarner here.”

“right. If you raise it any further, the next match will be dangerous.”

“It is now May. The season is starting now. There’s no other pitcher here, and it’s fatal for the Giants to overuse Bumgarner.”

Because Madison Bumgarner, who threw more than 130 pitches while pitching 10 innings scoreless, once again on the mound was like giving up on the next game.

In other words, Madison Bumgarner’s failure to make it to the 11th was not an escape or admitting defeat.

A very reasonable and rational exit.

But no one watching the match took Madison Bumgarner’s departure for granted.

– Bumgarner ran away.

– Mad Bum lost to Howman.

escape.

People were thinking Madison Bumgarner had left the stage because he couldn’t win.

Of course, that was obviously too early.

– Don’t be mean! Bumgarner is running away!

– The pitcher who pitched without a score in 10 innings is running away, so only assholes gathered.

– Even Houman only pitched 10 innings!

Jinyong Lee, too, just became a pitcher without a score in 10 innings the moment he finished the 10th inning.

Madison Bumgarner and Jinyong Lee, both were still recording the same results.

Unless Jinyong Lee wasn’t on the mound at the end of the 11th, Madison Bumgarner couldn’t be said to have lost.

That is why no one spoke their thoughts out loud.

That was it.

‘Bumgarner went down.’

‘Lee got Bumgarner.’

He didn’t just say it out loud, and the spectators, reporters, and even the players already knew it.

The fact that this game is now starting to lean towards the Mets.

The fact that the goddess of victory is raising the corners of her lips little by little towards the Mets.

And that fact was clearly proven at the beginning of the 11th.

Whoa!

It was one room.

only one room.

It was a parabola that cut AT&T Park in half that ended the long, goalless game.

– Joe Jones! He did it!

Joe Jones, he hit a home run.

At that fact, the atmosphere at AT&T Park cooled down. Fans started bowing their heads.

And at the end of the 11th, Jinyong Lee came back on the mound.

After a fierce battle, to collect the Giants, who have now become their prey.

12.

40,000 is a huge number.

A huge number so that the atmosphere becomes noisy just by making the sound of their breathing.

But AT&T Park, filled with 40,000 spectators, did not.

It was so quiet, as if watching a movie and pressing the mute button.

Chubb, chubby…

The stillness was so great that he could even hear the pitcher’s footsteps toward the mound.

– Yeah, that’s it.

In that atmosphere, Kim Jin-ho, who climbed to the mound with Lee Jin-yong, smiled deeply.

– I can finally feel the atmosphere of AT&T Park I know.

Kim Jin-ho, smiling, had the expression he had when he came up on the mound against the Giants here.

Major League Baseball rulers.

He was making the face he had when he presented only gloom and gloom to all the major league teams he faced.

Her eyes gleam fiercely, and her smile radiates a creepy expression.

And Jin-yong Lee, he also had the same expression as Jin-ho Kim.

That was enough.

Jin-ho Kim did not dare to ask how Jin-yong Lee is feeling at this moment.

He didn’t even ask what he was thinking, what he wanted, or what kind of baseball he wanted to play.

What Jin-ho Kim thought here in the past, Jin-yong Lee now thinks the same, and what Jin-ho Kim did here, Jin-yong Lee will now reproduce once again.

MLB Ruler!

Because I will carve that dreadful horror once again.

“Play Ball!”

That’s how the 11th episode started.

At that sound, Jinyong Lee wiped the rosin powder on my left hand! blown

13.

1-0, the end of the 11th inning, which might be the last attack.

When this happens, reporters are usually busy.

As soon as the game is over, I have to review and organize the article that concludes today’s game once again.

But none of the reporters who filled the AT&T Park press room seemed to be busy.

Everyone watched the game in astonishment or contemplated in front of the keyboard on the laptop.

It was because of Jinyong Lee.

‘Is this really possible?’

It was a fact that all the reporters who filled the press room knew that Jinyong Lee was a great pitcher.

I couldn’t have known

If the pitcher who recorded a major league new record surpassing Tom Seaver and Kim Jin-ho of 11 batters striking out after winning five consecutive shutouts and achieving no-hit games is not a great pitcher, then no other pitcher can be described as amazing.

But there is a degree to greatness.

‘Where is Lee’s limit?’

Jinyong Lee’s brilliance was more than what major league reporters thought.

This is also the reason why some reporters were troubled by the keyboard in front of them.

‘How can I describe this player?’

In the normal case, it would be enough to bring in a player who was historically great to represent a player, but Jinyong Lee didn’t even allow that.

First of all, being a two-handed pitcher refused to compare his skills with other pitchers.

Jinyong Lee was not just throwing with both hands, he was using both hands perfectly.

You can tell just by looking at today’s game.

A situation in which he hit the Giants all nine innings with his right hand, causing them to fall into a groggy state, and then throwing straight punches in a row with his left hand.

Naturally, the Giants had no choice but to collapse helplessly in front of that left-handed punch.

Beyond the level that the body can withstand, it has collapsed mentally.

That was why the Mets scored in the beginning of the 11th.

In a world at the MLB level, losing your courage is like exposing a fatal weakness.

Jinyong Lee’s two-handed pitching was such a pitching.

Pitching that creates a victory for the team, not just a scoreless goal.

There has never been a two-handed pitcher comparable to Jin-yong Lee in terms of skill in the history of Major League Baseball.

‘······ As long as it has a presence, it is similar to that.’

Even if compared to others based on presence rather than skill, the subject was really very rare.

‘Kim, like him.’

Jinho Kim.

Only a pitcher-level player who was called the ruler of the major leagues could be compared to Jin-yong Lee.

However, no one took Kim Jin-ho out at this moment.

Kim Jin-ho is the leader of Major League Baseball.

Putting Jin-yong Lee on the same line with him is no different than saying that Jin-yong Lee is now the ruler of the major leagues, isn’t it?

Even Kim Jin-ho had proven his worth over the years to get that nickname.

‘No, it’s too early to compare with Kim.’

‘It’s not like you’re comparing Kim with a pitcher who’s only been pitching for a little over a month now.’

Recognizing Jin-yong Lee, who has only played 5 games and now 6 games, as the ruler, was something that the pride of major league reporters would not allow.

Tack, Tack!

In such a press room, only one person was tapping the keyboard without hesitation.

It was, of course, him.

Hwang Seon-woo, unlike other reporters who were tainted with anguish and astonishment, started writing articles about Lee Jin-yong, typing without blockage with a smile that was more pleasant than ever before.

Having completed the article in one fell swoop, he immediately started the final review.

‘············Lee Jinyong, he once again got a shutout win on the Giants stage. It is the first time that a Korean pitcher has won a shutout against the Giants since Kim Jin-ho recorded it on August 3, 2003.’

Soon, Hwang Seon-woo, who reached the last part, started to tap the batter again as if he remembered something.

‘······ With this, Jin-yong Lee left only 3 innings to the 59-inning scoreless record recorded by Orel Hershiser of the Dodgers, who won the 1988 Cy Young and World Series MVP.’

That was the moment.

– Game over! lee! The winning pitcher is Jin Yong Lee! He himself finished the game he started!

The game was over, and at that moment, Hwang Seon-woo got up and immediately sent the article he had written to the press.

And then I thought.

‘I’ll have to go to work half a day earlier than usual for the next press room. Otherwise, you might end up writing an article.’

The surprise created by Jinyong Lee is just the beginning.

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