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baseball, it's common knowledge that pitchers have an advantage when they're tall. In professional baseball this season, single-handed pitchers have been outstanding.

Reporter Yoo Byung-min introduces the players who dominate the mound with their "heart" rather than "height."

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SSG foreign pitcher McCarty is 173 cm tall, making him the shortest foreign pitcher ever to be the smallest Korean and foreign pitcher registered in the KBO this season, 5 cm shorter than the previous record for the shortest.

There has been a lot of skepticism because of the conventional wisdom that pitchers have to be tall to have an advantage, and McCarty is breaking that prejudice with his scary pitches.

He pitched seven innings against NC State on Jan. 15, going 7-5 and surrendering just one earned run in his last five games.

McCarty, who threw too hard and missed one back after inflamed fingers, is determined to return next week to lead SSG's lead run.

[Kurt McCarty/SSG pitcher: Always game-driven, aggressive, and always wanting to be on the mound until the manager takes the ball away.]

At 3 cm tall, the "shortest of the season" domestic pitchers are blistering in the bullpen.

Kiwoom Kim Jae-woong has been a solid guard at the team's back door for the second year in a row, and LG's 174-year-old rookie Park Myung-geun has established himself as a "bullpen must-win" with an average speed of 2 km/h, the third-fastest sidearm pitcher behind team seniors Jung Woo-young and Kiwoom Won Jong-hyun.

The performance of a short-body pitcher who throws with his heart rather than his height is capturing the hearts of fans.

(Video editing by So Ji-hye)