Is it 1 out of 8 in the first round? It's similar to the year when only LG won the title with a smile, the humiliation of Youngbong's defeat in 2, 3, and 4th place, the ranking table of chaos that changes after sleeping
Apr 16, 2025
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Except for the LG Twins in the first round, there is no exception for any team.
At first glance, it's a composition of 'one out of eight' The top-ranked team or the bottom-ranked team doesn't mean much. The difference between the second-ranked SSG Landers and the ninth-ranked Doosan Bears is only 2.5 games.
KT and Samsung are in third and fourth places without a half-game ride with SSG in second place. Lotte, ranked fifth, is one game behind Samsung, ranked fourth, and Hanwha KIA NC is sixth, seventh and eighth without a half-game behind Lotte, ranked fifth. Doosan ranks ninth by a half-game.
Kiwoom at the bottom is also not far away. It is only 1.5 games behind ninth-ranked Doosan.
The structure can fluctuate greatly at once in three consecutive games. Head coaches who need to get a head start in a hurry are dying.
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At the beginning of the week, on the 15th, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th places were humiliated by the shock.
The second-place SSG has lost two consecutive games amid the recent batting slump. On the 15th, he had a 0-2 Youngbong plaque at the match against Hanwha in Incheon. Samsung, which had been cruising since the opening, also lost three consecutive games due to the slump in the batting lineup. At the match against LG in Jamsil on the 15th, the team suffered a humiliation of no hit and no run and lost 0-3.
Despite Ko Young-pyo's three-hit, scoreless fantasy pitch in six innings, which threw "the ball that could not be hit", KT also suffered a painful 0-1 defeat in the middle of the lineup's failure. He also failed to target the bullpen, which led to Kia's nail scoreless six innings and Cho Sang-woo, Choi Ji-min, and Jung Hae-young.
All three top teams are worried about the lineup. As the tight game continues amid the failure of the lineup, the bullpen is also burdened. This is why they allowed low-ranking teams to chase closely.
Samsung manager Park Jin-man said "When I first started the season, I had a player (Reyes Won Tae-in) missing from the starting rotation and I was worried about the bullpen, but now I'm rather worried about hitting." Except for a game or two, I think there's a little bit of a regret because the cycle is not on track right now." Coach Park said, `On average, the team's batting average may be a little high, but it bursts when we burst, and it doesn't explode when we don't. As our players are a little young, I think there are some such influences. Depending on the atmosphere, it seems that young players still have a little bit of such pressure,' he said, analyzing the reason for the ups and downs.
As of the 15th, Samsung, which is said to have ups and downs, is in fourth place with a team batting average of 0.259, KT is in eighth place with 0.234, and SSG, which does not have Choi Jung, is in ninth place with 0.231.
Just looking at the last 10 games, I can understand such a mix-up.
Except for No. 1 LG and No. 10 Kiwoom, eight teams are mostly on the edge of a 50% win rate. It means that there was a battle of biting and biting.
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He is firmly leading the team by ranking first in the team's ERA and team batting average. With strong starting baseball leading to Chirinos, Hernandez, Son Joo-young, Lim Chan-kyu and Song Seung-ki, it is erasing all the risks that were feared before the season, including bullpens.
Hernandez, who was the only one who lost two games and was anxious, also announced his return to normal with six innings of no-hitter against Samsung in Jamsil on the 15th.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said of the comparison with 2023 when he won the integrated championship, "It's similar to how I felt when I won the championship. Among the young players who prepared for last year's generational change, there is a game in which players such as Song Chan and Koo Bon-hyuk play little by little the roles that seniors should play"Last year, after trial and error, I felt that I was not good enough, and I trained him a lot to raise the level from the end of the camp", he explained.
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Following Son Joo-young last year, Song Seung-ki has heralded his year this year.
There are no unprovoked consequences. LG's self-reliance for a reason is expected to continue for the time being.
On the other hand, teams below them, who are realizing power equalization, are unlikely to avoid infinite competition.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
