If you don't get a hit in five times at bat, you will collapse by 300 degrees, and the 2nd place in NL batting → 13th place in four days after Lee Jung-hoo will study LEE
Apr 23, 2025
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Lee Jung-hoo started as the third center fielder in Game 2 of the four consecutive home games against the Milwaukee Brewers at Oracle Park on the 23rd (Korea time) and recorded no hits, one walk, and one point in four at-bats.
In the bottom of the seventh inning with a 3-2 lead over Milwaukee the previous day, he hit a triple to penetrate the right-center against a left-hander with a runner at first base in his last at-bat.
Milwaukee left-hander Jose Kintana was pinned down.
In his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning, Kintana's 5th pitch hit a 77.3-mile sloop on the outside low course was floated on a fly to shortstop.
In the second at-bat, trailing 1-3, he struck out by turning his bat on Kintana's outer slab with two outs and runners on the first and third bases, and in the sixth inning, trailing 1-11, he hit a ground ball to the second base and the front runner was out.
In the eighth inning, trailing 2-11, he left-hander Brian Hudson picked up an 89-mile fastball on the outside of the eighth pitch with a ball on the full count, walked, and homered on the follow-up to mark his 20th point of the season. However, in the last at-bat in the ninth inning, he hit right-hander Yoel Phelps' first pitch with runners on the first and second bases after two outs and retired with a fly ball to right field.
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The momentum has not been good lately. On the 19th, the batting average, which had boiled to 0.361 by hitting 2 for 3 against the Los Angeles Angels, fell to 0.315.
He had 1 hit in 4 at-bats against the Angels on the 20th, 5 at-bats against the Angels on the 21st, 1 at-bats against Milwaukee on the 22nd, and 4 at-bats on the day. In the last four games, he has suddenly continued his downward trend with two hits in 17 at-bats. He had a batting average of 0.315 (28 hits in 89 at-bats), three homers, 15 RBIs, 20 runs, nine walks, 14 strikeouts, an on-base percentage of 0.374, a slugging percentage of 0.573 and an OPS of 0.947 in 23 games this season.
Lee Jung-hoo, who was ranked second in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS in the NL on the 19th, plunged to 13th in batting average, 7th in slugging percentage, and 10th in OPS as of the day.
If you remain silent with no hits in five at-bats against Milwaukee on the 24th, or if you are sluggish with one hit in eight at-bats in the remaining two home games against Milwaukee on the 24th and 25th, the batting average of .300 will collapse. Of course, it is early in the season, so if you add one hit, you can recover your batting average quickly, but if you can't escape the current downward trend and the slump is prolonged, it will be more difficult to maintain a batting average of 300. Moreover, the other's research and checks are bound to become stronger.
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Direct comparison may be unreasonable, but Ichiro Suzuki's career batting average has never fallen below .300 until he retired in 2019 after hitting 2 for 4 against the Oakland Athletics, his third game in his major league debut in 2001. This is due to his stable batting average in the 300s by hitting 26 hits (0.400) in 65 at-bats while continuing his hit streak in 15 consecutive games from the game against Oakland on that day to the Anaheim Angels on April 21.
28,573 home fans who visited Oracle Park on this day said, "Even when Lee Jung-hoo took the last at-bat, "Jeong~~"I shouted, "Hoo~~~~" The "Lee Jung-hoo craze" that spread to the national level after leaving San Francisco at the beginning of the season should not cool down quickly.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
