Maybe it was the pressure of losing back-to-back games and facing a series sweep, but LG Casey Kelly got hit hard in the first inning. She was able to avoid a loss with the help of her batters, but her ERA, which was hovering around the three-run mark, jumped again.

Kelly started the game against the Hanwha Eagles of the 2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon on Nov. 11 and gave up six runs on four hits, three walks and one strikeout in 1⅔ innings. He gave up a leadoff single in the first inning. It was his first minimum-inning start in the KBO. The previous record was 6 runs and 5 earned runs in 2 innings against the NC on May 10, 2020.

Kelly, LG’s longest-tenured foreign player, hasn’t been as consistent as his reputation this year. In six games in April, he only won one and lost two. However, he turned things around with five consecutive quality starts in May. His first start in June was also a five-inning, one-run shutout.

Kelly lowered his ERA from 5.66 to 4.07 when he finished April. However, Kelly’s ERA spiked to 4.62 after just one inning in 11 games. After getting two outs in the second inning, he was pulled after giving up four straight pitches. Kelly’s ERA rose to 4.70 when his second pitcher, Yoo Young-chan, walked one of the two runners in scoring position.

It was even more shocking because he came into the game with a 4-0 lead. Kelly struggled in the first inning, retiring the first seven batters in a row. She gave up a leadoff walk to Lee Jin-young and a single to Kim Tae-yeon. She gave up a two-run double to Noh Si-hwan.

Catcher Park Dong-won headed to the mound to calm Kelly down, but the situation didn’t change. Kelly walked Chae Eun-sung on a pitch and faced his “nemesis,” Kim In-hwan, who was batting .529 against him with runners on first and second. The result was a single to right. With the bases loaded, he gave up a walk to Jung Eun-won to cut the deficit to one run and a single to Moon Hyun-bin to tie the game.

Kelly got Park Sang-un to fly out to right field for the first out in eight batters, but Kim In-hwan scored from third base to tie the game at 4-5. He struck out Lee Do-yoon and got Lee Jin-young to fly out to shortstop to end the first inning after throwing 42 pitches.토토사이트

With a 10-5 lead in the second inning, Kelly got a second chance, but the bench’s patience ran out when he gave up his second hit to Chae Eun-sung and walked Kim In-hwan. The second pitcher, Yoo Young-chan, came on. Yoo gave up an RBI single to Jung Eun-won to extend Kelly’s lead to six runs.

Despite Kelly’s struggles, LG led 10-6 after three innings. Moon Bo-kyung doubled and homered with two outs to give her seven RBIs.