Charlie Barnes (30) of the Lotte Giants in the professional baseball league showed a good pitch to wash away his sluggishness. 

Barnes started the game against the Kiwoom Heroes in the "2025 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League" at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th and recorded two hits (one home run), one walk, six strikeouts and one run in seven innings.토토사이트

Barnes, who struck out leadoff hitter Lim Ji-yeol in the bottom of the first inning, grounded out Choi Joo-hwan to the second base, but allowed Ruben Cardinez to hit a solo homer. Song caught the ball through a fly ball to the center field. With the first out in the second inning when Lotte turned the game around 3-1, Won Seong-joon survived due to a mistake by the first baseman, but induced Park Soo-jong to ground out to the shortstop, catching the leadoff runner. With two outs and runners on the second base, which led to Park's stealing of the second base, Kim Jae-hyun was grounded out to the third baseman. 

Barnes, who struck out both leadoff batters Ko Young-woo and Lim Ji-yeol in the third inning, walked Choi Joo-hwan, but threw Cardinals out with a fly ball to the right field. Then, with one out in the seventh inning, Barnes continued his streak of 11 consecutive hitters. Oh Sun-jin's hit stopped his streak of all-hitters, but Barnes did not falter and managed to catch both Won Seong-joon and Park Soo-jong. 

In the eighth inning, when Lotte was leading 8-1, Barnes handed over the mound to Kim Sang-soo and finished the mound. Lotte finished the game with a 9-3 victory and Barnes won three games of the season. 

With 95 pitches, Barnes used sliders, fastballs, two-seam and changeups. His maximum speed on fastballs was 147 kilometers per hour, and his strike rate reached 70.5 percent. With batters providing support for scoring early, he blocked Kiwoom hitters with his confident pitches. 

"Overall, I think the pitching was good. Our fielders showed very good performance in defense. I continued to pitch aggressively, leading to good results," Barnes said in an interview after the game. 

Barnes, who had a hit rate of 3.28 percent against left-handed hitters before the game, said, "Compared to the fact that I pitched well last year, there are parts that are not going well this year. "I had difficulties because the slider went into the strike zone and didn't go into the position I wanted," he explained. 

However, the strength of his good slider in the past has revived, and Barnes' hitting rate against left-handed hitters has also dropped to 286. "Today's slider went in well," Barnes said. "There is no big difference between last year and this year. I watch the video, analyze myself, have power analysis meetings, talk with catchers and coaches, and analyze every game." 

In an interview before the game, Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung expressed his concern, saying, "Barnes' speed has also dropped a little and the end of the ball seems to have become a little flat." He then said, "If you see today's throwing, you will get better. A pitcher cannot be in good condition every time," and expected Barnes to rebound. 

Barnes said, "Of course, there are areas I need to improve. That is my goal. I need to improve and improve all the time," expressing his commitment to display better pitching in the rest of the season. "Today was the first start of the nine-game series. It was nice to be able to go as long as seven innings. My goal is to throw as long as possible."