Ryu returns from rehabilitation after elbow surgery last June.
Allowed four runs on nine hits (one home run) in five innings at Baltimore on Aug. 2 team fell to 3-13 in the loss

Ryu Hyun-jin (Toronto Blue Jays) made his first start in 426 days while healthy. It was a disappointment, but it also offered hope.

Hyun-jin Ryu started the 2023 Major League Baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Rogers Centre in Ontario, Canada, on Sunday.

It was his first start in 426 days.

After undergoing ligament splicing surgery on his left elbow on June 2 last year against the Chicago White Sox, Ryu returned to the mound after a lengthy rehabilitation.

In his first game back, Ryu allowed four runs on nine hits (one home run) in five innings with one walk and three strikeouts. He threw 80 pitches. There were 54 double strikes.

According to BaseballSabermetrics, Ryu threw a mix of four-seam fastballs (33), changeups (22), curves (20), and cutters (5). His fastball topped out at 91 mph (146.5 km/h).

Trailing 3-4 in the sixth inning, Hyun-Jin Ryu took the loss as Toronto fell to 3-13.

The Jays got off to a rough start against the Baltimore Orioles, who are in first place in the American League.

Ryu struggled in the first inning, giving up three straight hits.

He gave up back-to-back doubles to leadoff man Adley Rutchman and Ryan Mountcastle. Anthony Santander followed with a single to left.

After getting Austin Hayes to fly out to center with runners on first and third, Ryu induced a grounder to Gunner Henderson to trade an out for a run.

With two on and one out, he struck out Jordan Westberg to end the inning. He induced a wild swing with a 77.8 mph (125 km/h) changeup.

He was hit by a long ball in the second inning. A two-pitch changeup to leadoff man Ramon Urias formed in the middle of the plate and dropped in front of the left-field fence for a double.

With the bases loaded and nobody out, Ryan McKenna’s bunt was picked off by Hyun-jin Ryu, who lined a single up the middle to the runner at second base.
After giving up three runs in the second inning, Ryu began to settle down in the third.

He gave up a leadoff single to Santander, but induced a double play on Hayes and struck out Henderson with a 90.8 mph fastball.

In the fourth, he gave up a leadoff single to Westberg, but no runs. He struck out Urias with a curveball, then grounded out McKenna and silenced Jorge Mateo with a fly ball.

The scoreless streak continued in the fifth inning.

After a single up the middle, Ryu gave up Santander’s first hit of the day. With runners on first and second, Ryu induced a grounder to Hayes with a cutter to shortstop to end the inning.

After throwing 75 pitches through five innings, Ryu returned to the mound in the sixth inning with the score tied 3-3.

He gave up a five-pitch changeup to leadoff hitter Henderson on a two-pitch, two-strike at-bat, but it was right in the middle of the zone, allowing a solo shot over the right field fence.

Eventually, with the score 3-4, the Toronto bench pulled Ryu and brought up second pitcher Trevor Richards.

Toronto, whose bullpen faltered sharply after Ryu went down, fell to 3-13 and dropped its third straight.

Toronto reliever Genesis Cabrera gave up an RBI double to Mountcastle with one out in the seventh and an RBI single to Henderson with runners on first and third.

Down 7-3 with two outs in the eighth, Nate Peterson gave up a grand slam to Santander over the right field fence.

With the game in hand, Baltimore drove in a run in the top of the ninth with McKenna’s RBI double that put runners on first and third.

After Danny Jansen’s two-run double to left-center field in the second and Brandon Belt’s solo shot to left-center field in the third, 토토사이트 the Toronto bats went silent, unable to attack the Baltimore mound any further.