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"Sonja of the Wind" has overcome the big crisis for now. This is because the detailed examination of the back where the pain occurred did not show any abnormal findings. Now, if he recovers his normal condition through rehabilitation, he will be able to play in the opening game of the Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2025 season.
The San Francisco club announced on the 19th (Korean time) that `an MRI examination of Lee's back found no abnormalities.' The San Francisco Chronicle, a San Francisco area, also showed no structural damage on MRI examination of Lee's back. I will continue my rehabilitation, and I will not be absent from the long-term,' he reported.
As a result, it was concluded that Lee Jung-hoo's back pain was not due to a serious injury. It is a pain caused by sleeping 'dam', that is, simple pain. This makes the subsequent process simpler. Until the opening game of the Major League regular league, Lee Jung-hoo should be prepared by focusing on rehabilitation to relieve pain and then putting it in the first and second games at the end of the exhibition game to check his actual condition.
Good news for both San Francisco and Lee Jung-hoo. Lee Jung-hoo, who ended the season early last year due to a shoulder injury, joined this year's exhibition game in a healthy body after spending all of 2024 with surgery and rehabilitation.
Lee Jung-hoo, who recovered his health, was more powerful than expected. San Francisco coach Bob Melvin was satisfied with his batting average of 0.300 (9 hits in 30 at-bats), two homers, five RBIs, nine runs, four walks, seven strikeouts, and an OPS of 0.967 in 12 exhibition games. Melvin also announced his plan to give Lee Jung-hoo the role of '3 - center fielder'.
However, Lee Jung-hoo suddenly faced a crisis due to back pain at the end of the exhibition game. He suddenly missed the game against the Seattle Mariners on the 16th, when he was originally scheduled to play. As it turned out, I woke up after sleeping at night after the game against the Texas Rangers on the 14th, and suddenly I had pain in my back and back.
San Francisco began to take the situation seriously as the pain, which was expected to disappear quickly, lasted longer than expected. Eventually, after undergoing an MRI examination on the 18th, he was asked to see Dr. Kenneth Akazuki, the team's doctor.
San Francisco was most worried about the situation in which Lee Jung-hoo could not join the opening game due to poor close examination. "The pain after this period lasts longer than expected," Melvin said. I hope to hear good news, but things are not getting much better", he said, explaining the reason for undergoing a thorough MRI examination.
At the same time, he even made a plan B to use Grant McCray for the opening game in preparation for the situation where Lee Jung-hoo could not join the opening game.
However, since no abnormalities were found in Lee Jung-hoo's MRI examination results, there is a high possibility that he will recover Lee Jung-hoo as healthy as possible and play in the opening game.
Reporter Lee Won-man wman@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
