Average 1.7 points water strike → Only 6G of opening fell to last place...Lotte has neither Kim Tae-yeon nor a new home.
Mar 29, 2025
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Lotte lost 0-2 to KT Wiz in the opening game of its home game in Busan on the 28th.
The breathtaking water bat is causing pain to Busan baseball fans. Starter Barnes washed away the poor performance of the opening game and pitched well with five hits, two walks and one run in seven innings, but Lotte's batters only had two hits in seven innings without four pitches against opposing starter Heyesus.
Quality Start (QS), which assumes the starting pitcher's easy pitching, is based on three earned runs in six innings. Although Jung Chul-won added one more run, the mound showed more than good performance with two points.
Team sports also affect each other. Just as pitchers are forced to strike out when there are more errors, the pitcher's mind will inevitably become impatient if he fails to score.
On this day, head coach Kim Tae-hyung gave the team a sense of crisis by replacing the first-team entry with four players on a large scale. However, the batters had only four hits. Veteran Kim Min-sung, who had just been called up in the second division, hit two hits, and the existing players ended the game scoreless after Na Seung-yeop and Yoo Kang-nam hit one by one.
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It's not a matter of one or two. A total of 10 batters have played for Lotte this season. Among them, only two players are Cho In-geun (5 hits in 14 at-bats) and Jeon Min-jae (3 hits in 15 at-bats). The rest are all batting in the .100 range.
Earlier, head coach Kim Tae-hyung said, `The situation is similar to the beginning of last season. The batters are not bursting at all." Then "How can you win if the opponent's pitcher is good or bad?" In the end, the main hitters have to hit it," he stressed.
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However, Lotte does not have many veterans with steady careers. Most of the batters who are the mainstay of the lineup, including Son Ho-young, Yoon Dong-hee, Na Seung-yup, Ko Seung-min, and Hwang Sung-bin, were career high last year. This means that it is not yet known whether it is late to improve in condition at the beginning of the season or whether it exposed weaknesses in other teams' analysis.
What is clear is that Lotte's various indicators are at risk level, not just one week at the beginning of the season. Lotte ranks ninth in the team batting average (188), ninth in the number of hits (36), and 10th in the RBI (more than 10 points) in the OPS.
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It is the home opening match of the same local team, but Lotte does not have Kim Tae-yeon or a new stadium. The only thing that is not ashamed of is the fandom that fills the home stadium even when the season starts like this and shouts 'Giant even if he dies.'" Will head coach Kim Tae-ho be able to show a solution during the remaining weekend series against KT, which is already a natural enemy.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
