Corey Kluber (37, Boston Red Sox), who fell into a sluggish 4-game losing streak after the start of the season, won his first win of the season after his 5th challenge.
Kluber started on the 26th (Korean time) in an away game against the Baltimore Orioles held at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and recorded 5 hits (1 home run), 3 strikeouts and 1 run in 6 innings.
Boston won 8-6, and Kluber became the winning pitcher. It's the first win of the season.
Kluber, who started as Boston's opening day starter this season, showed the worst start with 4 losses and an ERA of 8.50 without a win in the preceding four appearances before the match. The majesty of the Cy Young Award winners in 2014 and 2017 was nowhere to be found.
But the veteran of the ranks did not give up. On this day, 해외스포츠중계 he shot a signal of a rebound by winning his first late game against Baltimore. With 1 win and 4 losses in the season, the average ERA was lowered to 6.75.
Boston scored three runs in the top of the second inning, then lightened Kluber's shoulders with Jaren Duran's grand slam in the top of the third.
Baltimore's chase was also worth seeing. In the last attack at the bottom of the ninth, trailing 1-8, Gunner Henderson's solo shot and Cedric website Mullins' grand slam caught up with a two-point lead, but could not turn the game around.