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| In the game between Hanwha and LG at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 25th, LG center fielder Park Hae-min is catching Hanwha Kim Tae-yeon's ball in the top of the 6th inning. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.03.25/ |
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| LG-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 10th. In the bottom of the third inning, center fielder Park Hae-min takes the ball out of his glove after throwing out Kim Gun-hee's ball with a diving catch. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.10/ |
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| In the game between Hanwha and LG at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 25th, LG center fielder Park Hae-min is catching Hanwha Kwon Kwang-min's ball with two outs and a runner on first base in the top of the eighth inning. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.03.25/ |
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The LG Twins are performing best ever. With 18 wins and 5 losses, he is overwhelmingly in first place with a winning rate of 7803. It's been a month since the opening, but there's not a single two-game losing streak.
He overwhelms the opponent with the strongest two-stroke balance with the first team batting average and the second team ERA. While the starter throws well, the batters do well to score, and the bullpen protects the lead until the end. He has never had a come-from-behind loss out of his five losses.
I'm watching a scene in LG baseball where everything goes well. But there is a key driving force behind all this. It's the defense of the 'iron wall'.
At some point, center fielder Park Hae-min jumps and catches the opponent's double-base hit in left-center, right-center, and mid-wall, diving and sliding to catch it. Shortstop Oh Ji-hwan also catches a hit that is likely to penetrate the 3-space and makes it a double play. The defender was clearly invisible when the batter hit, but at some point, second baseman Shin Min-jae slid to catch it and threw it to first base to get out. Third baseman Moon Bo-kyung and first baseman Austin, who were unstable before, are now at the level of clearing out most of the hits. Hong Chang-ki's sliding catch and strong throw, who received the defensive award for the second consecutive year, are also sometimes seen.
Good defense, of course, reduces lost points. However, LG's iron wall defense does not stop there. As several good defenses piled up, the derived effects gathered to win and become an 'invincible LG'.
Once the starting pitchers get an out count with good defense when they throw, the number of pitches by starting pitchers decreases. If there is a hit and a runner is out, the pitcher has to throw more, but when he cuts it to defense, the pitcher throws the ball in the next inning. Of course, I'll throw five innings, six or seven innings. Lim Chan-kyu, who caught the ball, was able to record a shutout by spraying 100 balls in nine innings against the Hanwha Eagles on March 26th, which was also a great defense.
As the number of innings increases, the number of innings thrown by the bullpen decreases. The bullpen is not overloaded.
As the inning ends quickly by increasing the outcount, defense time is reduced. That's how little the fielders who went out of defense use up their stamina. It takes as little as one to two minutes to as many as three to four minutes to deal with one batter, so if that time is collected, it is by no means small. Naturally, the strength gathered helps to hit.
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| The KIA-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 6th. Second baseman Shin Min-jae, who caught Han Jun-su's infield ground ball with no outs in the top of the eighth inning, throws it to first base. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.6/ |
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| A game between the LG Twins and the Samsung Lions at Jamsil Stadium on the 15th. LG third baseman Moon Bo-kyung catches Samsung Kim Sung-yoon's ball with two outs and a runner on first base in the top of the sixth inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.04.15/ |
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| A game between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium on the 11th. LG first baseman Austin is handling Doosan Yang Eui-ji's ball with one out and a runner on first base in the top of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.04.11/ |
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Of course, the rain changes the atmosphere of the two teams by 180 degrees. If you fail to score due to a good defense in the chance to score, the atmosphere is down as there is a perception that it is a day that is not solved for the opponent. Batters sometimes lose their sense of hitting when they catch a good hit. On the contrary, the atmosphere of LG players is revived at the thought of a day when they become available. It also has a good effect on hitting.
Center fielder Park Hae-min's batting average of 242 and second baseman Shin Min-jae's batting average of 2206 are not very good, but they need to be in the position to become a stable defense, and hitting does not require good hitting from them because there are good hitting players. He is helping pitchers and batters by reducing runs with just one good defense.
There are many impressive defenses, and the record also shows LG's defensive stability. LG ranks first in total errors this season with eight total errors. The team with the most errors is the Kiwoom Heroes with a total of 26.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
