Blue-Eyed Seon Dong-yeol' NC Pedi "It's an Honor to be Mentioned Together... I Want to be Like him"

“Every time I go on the mound, I throw with the desire to become just a little bit like Dong-yeol Sun,”

NC Dinos starting pitcher Eric Peddy, who led the team to victory in the first game of the playoffs (PO) against KT Wiz, said this after the game on the 30th.

Fedi was compared to former coach Sun Dong-yeol, a 'national treasure pitcher', throughout this season.

Peddie posted a record of 20 wins, 6 losses, an ERA of 2.00, and 209 strikeouts in the regular season. 카지노

20 wins and 200 strikeouts is a feat achieved 37 years after Sun Dong-yeol of the Haitai Tigers in 1986 (24 wins, 214 strikeouts).

In addition, Peddy swept the categories of wins, earned run average, and strikeouts, becoming the 4th player in the 42-year history of Korean professional baseball, following Sun Dong-yeol (1986, 1989, 1990, 1991), Hanwha Eagles' Ryu Hyun-jin (2006), and KIA Tigers' Yoon Seok-min (2011).

Achieved the first ‘Pitcher Triple Crown’.

And on this day, in the first game of PO, Sun Dong-yeol was summoned once again with a fightback with 3 hits (1 home run), 1 walk, 12 strikeouts, and 1 run in 6 innings.

The 12 strikeouts is the most in a single game in playoff history, as the previous record was 11 strikeouts by Sun Dong-yeol (Haitai Tigers) in 1989 and Chris Flexen (Doosan Bears) in 2020.

Peddie, whom we met after the game, said, “It is an honor in itself to be mentioned with a great pitcher like Seon Dong-yeol,” and added, “I will work hard to live up to that comparison.”

Peddie, who appeared on the mound after two weeks with a forearm contusion, said, "I focused on rest to return to as healthy a condition as possible," and added, "Thanks to the team's three consecutive wins against SSG Landers (in the semi-playoffs) that bought me time, I can play on the 5th."

He expressed his gratitude, saying, “I benefited from being thinner.”

At the same time, he said about his physical condition, saying, "I still have some discomfort in my nerves, but I am in a condition where I can overcome it (enough), so I don't have any major worries going forward."

Regarding holding KT Anthony Alford, who had 5 hits (2 home runs) in 8 at-bats against him in the regular season, to no hits, he said, "Alford performed well because he always won games at unfavorable ball counts, but today he had a good ball count in the early stages.

“I think my suggestion to go in after eating worked.”

Eric Peddie said, “Before the postseason, I said, ‘Other teams won’t want to meet our team,’ and now we’re proving that,” adding, “I want to advance to the Korean Series without any problems.”