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Dodgers’ Hyun-Jin Ryu, Russell Martin bring mutual respect into NLDS Game 3 assignment

Ryu had a 1.52 earned-run average this season throwing to Martin, who gets a rare start over rookie Will Smith

By J.P. HOORNSTRA | jhoornstra@scng.com | Daily News

PUBLISHED: October 5, 2019 at 10:30 am | UPDATED: October 5, 2019 at 10:31 am

 

LOS ANGELES — Asked to pinpoint the source of his struggles this season, Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu blamed himself.

“Whenever I have an off game,” he said Friday, “it’s usually the balance when I make the delivery and that led to mistake pitches.”

Publicly and privately, Ryu has resisted blaming the man in a crouch behind home plate. Call it a coincidence, but Ryu was irrefutably bad during a stretch of three summer starts with rookie Will Smith catching.

Smith, who became the Dodgers’ primary backstop after the All-Star break, started the first two games of the best-of-five National League Division Series. But he will give way to Russell Martin when Ryu pitches Game 3 in Washington, D.C. on Sunday.

With Martin behind the plate, Ryu had a 1.52 earned-run average in 20 starts this season. Throwing to Smith, Ryu had a 5.40 ERA in six starts.

“If you look at his career, (Martin) had an amazing career,” Ryu said through his interpreter. “So from the get-go, you have to respect that. And he’s been an incredible help in terms of communicating and being on the same page. Even from Day 1, as a veteran, he made sure that we were on the same page and from the get-go, we had a great start to the season, hence the good results throughout the season.”

Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu, right, had a 1.52 ERA this season throwing to catcher Russell Martin, left, who will get a rare start over rookie Will Smith in Game 3 of the NLDS on Sunday in Washington. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

 

The admiration is mutual.

“The numbers say that he’s good with me, but he’s just a good pitcher,” Martin said of Ryu. “He can execute pitches and do different things, and he’s really good at creating his own game plan. He studies hitters. He knows exactly what he wants to do out there. I’m trying to guide him, just stay in synch, feel what he wants to do.”

Now 36, Martin is playing out the string on the lucrative contract he signed with the Blue Jays prior to the 2015 season. The remainder of his career might measure in weeks, if not days.

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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/05/dodgers-hyun-jin-ryu-russell-martin-bring-mutual-respect-into-nlds-game-3-assignment/

 

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