9-News: 41.004: FPL Tapes: Yi Goes No-No!

[RonCo]

Yi Blanks Calgary
FPLers For Big Win

While Yellow Springs Nine fans pouting for the team’s inability to sign big armed free agent Feliciano Rafael, 24-year-old prospect In-sung Yi continues to throw his hat in the ring with names like Carlos Pineda, and Tomas Ramirez as the club’s brightest pitching prospect. He did it this week by throwing a 10-K, 3 walk no hitter down in Gainesville. The only downside is that he threw 127 pitches, leading some to think he might be shut down the rest of the winter league season.

“I wanted it,” he said. “I knew I was at 109 at the end of the 8th, but I told everyone who was able to listen that I was going out there again. My daddy told me you don’t leave a job like that unfinished.”

Fans gave the South Korean a standing ovation as he was congratulated by his teammates.

The Gainesville Nine won the game 4-0 behind an offense that featured a YS9-like three doubles and a triple.

Yi was in Gainesville to take on some additional work after throwing only 137 innings in Indianapolis in a year that saw him bounce back from a torn labrum the season before. His numbers were encouraging after a predictably tough first few months of the season, going 4-4 from June on, with a 3.76 ERA. Most think that he may be best projected as a 6th-starter/bullpen guy with the Nine, but if he keeps this kind of stuff up, one has to wonder if maybe the club is re-thinking that prognosis.

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A 13 change-up? Does it actually stop on its way to the plate and laugh at the hopeless batter?

[jleddy]

A 13 change-up? Does it actually stop on its way to the plate and laugh at the hopeless batter?

[HoosierVic]

Maybe it's like Phil Niekro's knuckleball ... Rick Monday once said it giggled at him on its way by.

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I wish my name was Rick Monday.

[jleddy]

I wish my name was Rick Monday.

There's an app for that.

[RonCo]

Or Ruby Tuesday.

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I still wish my name was Rick Monday, but now I want the name and to be eating at a Ruby Tuesday’s.