Professional baseball player Drew Anderson (31) of the SSG Landers has surpassed Cody Ponce (31) of the Hanwha Eagles to take the top spot in the league's earned run average.
SSG announced ahead of the game against the Hanwha Eagles on the 28th at Incheon SSG Landers Field that "the one run recorded by Anderson in the game against the KIA Tigers held on the 22nd in Incheon has been officially corrected to an unearned run."
Anderson has recorded five wins and three losses with an earned run average of 2.05 in 15 games (88 innings) this season. In the game against KIA on the 22nd, he pitched six innings, allowing six hits, four walks, striking out nine, and giving up one run. However, during the fifth inning, a double by Park Chan-ho was corrected to an error by the third baseman, resulting in Anderson's earned run in that game being changed to an unearned run.
With the official record corrected, Anderson's earned run average has dropped to 1.94. He has now surpassed Ponce, who has an earned run average of 2.04, to take the top spot in the league.
Coincidentally, Anderson and Ponce will face off as starting pitchers on the same day. Ponce has recorded 10 wins with an earned run average of 2.04 in 16 games (101⅔ innings) this season. Against SSG, he has recorded two wins with an earned run average of 0.00 in two games (15 innings). While he has conceded the first place in earned run average to Anderson, he still holds the first place in strikeouts (141).
Anderson is leading in earned run average with 1st place, and in strikeouts he is 2nd (128), while Ponce is 2nd in earned run average and 1st in strikeouts. Attention is focused on who will emerge victorious in this matchup of the league's top aces following the results of the game.
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