Domestic Pitcher Duo Dominates Mound, Eyes Title Sweep

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Doosan Bears' native one-two punch, Kwak Bin and Choi Min-seok, are enjoying a stellar season. A sweep of major pitching titles by a native duo from the same team, which has never happened since the launch of professional baseball, is now within sight.

Reporter Yu Byeongmin has the story.

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Opposing batters swing through the air against blazing fastballs exceeding 160 km/h.

Last Saturday, Kwak Bin secured a decisive victory in a high-speed pitching duel against Kiwoom's An Woo-jin, allowing only two runs with eight strikeouts over six innings.

Passing the baton the next day, Choi Min-seok led the team to consecutive weekend wins, backed by sharp two-seam fastballs and cutters targeting the corners of the strike zone.

[Kwak Bin / Doosan Pitcher: I will become a player with even more room for growth. Next year, I want to become a pitcher who can throw a few more innings.]

[Choi Min-seok / Doosan Pitcher: I hope to pitch even harder so we can reach higher places and go all the way to the fall baseball postseason.]

With fiery fastballer Kwak Bin and precise control master Choi Min-seok, their styles are starkly different, but Doosan's native one-two punch is dominating the league this season.

Kwak Bin leads the league in two categories with a 2.36 ERA and 169 strikeouts, while Choi Min-seok stands at the top in wins with 13 and a .813 winning percentage.

While legendary aces like Sun Dong-yol or Yoon Suk-min have swept titles in the past, or foreign duos like Dustin Nippert and Michael Bowden have shared them, there has never been a single instance where a team's native one-two punch divided up the major pitching titles.

Kwak Bin, in his 9th year after blossoming following a long period of patience, and Choi Min-seok, a 20-year-old who emerged as an ace in just his second year since debut, have both earned national team selections and are dreaming of delivering golden pitches as the national team's one-two punch at the upcoming Nagoya Asian Games.

(Video Editing: Ha Seong-won, Design: Kang Yoon-jung)
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