When can Ariel Furado, a foreign pitcher of the Samsung Lions in professional baseball, say goodbye to bad luck.메이저놀이터
Hurado, who played as the ace of the Kiwoom Heroes from 2023 to 2024, is showing off his steady appearance even after moving to Samsung after the 2024 season.
In all six games he pitched this season, he made quality starts (more than six innings and less than three earned runs) and played 40 innings. He also made three quality starts plus, in which the starting pitcher pitched seven or more innings and recorded three earned runs or less.
He also observes detailed indicators. His ERA is 2.70, his batting average is 0.232, and his on-base percentage is 0.275. He struck out 36 and allowed only eight walks during 40 innings.
Despite his stellar performance, however, Furado only garnered one win. He lost three of his four games.
The only time Furado received cool batting support was the opening game against Kiwoom on March 22. At that time, Samsung's batters scored 13 points by hitting 18 hits, and Furado allowed two runs in six innings and became the winning pitcher.
Since then, Samsung's batters have struggled on the day Furado takes the mound.
At the game against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on March 28, Furado struck out 11 times during eight innings, allowing four hits and two runs. However, his team had six hits, more than Doosan (four hits), but failed to yield a single run, resulting in a complete defeat.
In the match against the Gwangju KIA Tigers on the 3rd of this month, Furado made a quality start with three runs in six innings, but he also became a losing pitcher as the batters only scored one run.
Furado pitched seven consecutive innings of one run against Daegu SSG Landers on the 9th and Jamsil LG Twins on the 15th, but he also failed to win.
In the match against SSG on the 9th, Samsung scored only one point and lost 1-3 after extra time.
At the game against LG Electronics on Monday, the team's batters were tightly bound by the opponent team's starting pitcher Elijah Hernandez, who garnered only one hit until the sixth inning. Samsung, which had no hit until the end of the game, lost 0-3 as it became a scapegoat for its team's no-hitter, and Furado saw its losses increase.
At the game against the Lotte Giants in Daegu on Tuesday, Furado performed his part by allowing five hits (two homers) and three runs in six innings. He allowed three runs first in the second inning, but continued to pitch scoreless afterwards.
Samsung's batters scored one point in the third inning and two points in the sixth inning to pull Furado out of the brink of defeat, but failed to meet the requirement for victory. At the time, Samsung lost 3 to 4 in the game against Lotte.
While Furado pitched 34 innings in five games from the game against Doosan on April 28 to the game against Lotte on May 20, Samsung's batters picked only four points. Since three of them were scored in the game against Lotte on May 20, Samsung's batters only scored one point while throwing 28 innings.
Samsung is ranked second in the team batting average (0.278), first in the team's home run (32), and first in the team's on-base plus slugging percentage (0.802) this season, but it cannot use its strength on the day Furado takes the mound.
Furado often faced off as a starting pitcher against the ace team in this season. Samsung, which has shown ups and downs this season, remained silent when it encountered an ace even after displaying batting performance like an active volcano.
The inability of Samsung's batters to use their strength when they left home also worked against Furado.
At home games, Samsung had a batting average of 0.313, OPS of 0.849, and hit 30 home runs. At away games, Samsung had a batting average of 0.219, and an OPS of 0.590. It hit only two home runs outside its home.
Furado has recorded all three losses in away games.
Furado's next appearance is expected to be against the Daegu NC Dinos on the 26th. Attention is focusing on whether Furado can break his bad luck against NC.