18 wins and 4 losses → 4 wins and 9 losses LG and 4 wins and 10 losses → 18 wins and 3 losses Hanwha begins a full-fledged battle for the top spot with 22 wins and 13 losses

May 06, 2025

Samsung-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 5th. Kim Seo-hyun is celebrating with catcher Lee Jae-won after taking the mound in the top of the ninth inning and defending the 3-1 victory. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..5.5/

A game between the Doosan Bears and the LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium on the 5th. LG players who lost are disappointed. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.05/

The LG Twins and Hanwha Eagles tied for first place with 22 wins and 13 losses on May 5, Children's Day.

The atmosphere is starkly divided. This is because the two teams' moves are completely opposite.

LG had dominated in the beginning with the 'Absolute 1st place'. Five starters completely blocked the opening seven consecutive wins as the batters burst, and then added wins and four losses, showing a winning margin of +14.

At that time, the team's ERA was 2.66, ranking second after KT Wiz (2.57), and the team's batting average was ranked first with 287. He had 6.5 points and 2.6 runs per game, the most points and the least points. Yoni Chirinos and Lim Chan-kyu won four games each, Son Joo-young won three, Hernandez won two, and Song Seung-ki won one, so the starting team won 14 games. However, Jang Hyun-sik made only two saves, making only five saves in total. This is because the batting was so good that the difference in scores was large because they scored a lot and scored less, so there were few saves. As such, LG's power was powerful.

However, since then, his performance has fallen sharply with four wins and nine losses. During this period, the only team with lower performance than LG was the Kiwoom Heroes with 4 wins and 10 losses. As the good batting lineup remained silent as a group, it failed to draw a score and the starting team also creaked as Eliaser Hernandez was injured. At once, he came down from the absolute first round in five consecutive losses and entered the pursuit of Hanwha, Lotte, and Samsung. Lim Chan-kyu's good pitching and four points from a single chance won 4-1 on the 3rd, escaped from a five-game losing streak, and made a quality start of three runs in six innings against the SSG Landers in Jamsil on the 4th, when the newly recruited short-term alternative foreign pitcher Coen Win took the mound, and the lineup exploded with a 12-4 victory, showing signs of recovery, but was blocked by Doosan Bears' Cole Irvin on the 5th and lost 2-5.

Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon talks with reporters at the match between LG and Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 29th. Daejeon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.04.29/

SSG-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 2nd. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop is watching the game with a stuffy look. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.2/

Hanwha got off to a bad start. Defeat piled up despite the good mound as the batters did not explode as a group. Fans who were in last place with 4 wins and 10 losses and expected baseball this fall were collapsing. However, from then on, Hanwha became a different team. He began his winning streak with a combination of a powerful starter, a solid back door, an iron wall defense that catches hits from opponents, and a lineup that bursts when appropriate. Hanwha, which had one loss after three consecutive wins and eight consecutive wins, has won seven consecutive games again after two consecutive losses. He has an overwhelming 18 wins and three losses. His winning rate is as high as 857. During this period, Lotte also performed well with 15 wins and 8 losses, but was four games apart from Hanwha. The team's ERA is overwhelmingly first with 2.18. Closer Kim Seo-hyun lost one game but made nine saves, and setup man Han Seung-hyuk recorded seven holds. Foreign duo Cody Ponce and Ryan Weiss won five games each, while Ryu Hyun-jin and Moon Dong-ju took three wins each. Eom Sang-baek, who came as FA, also added one win, and the number of wins the starting team won is as much as 17. This means that starting baseball is doing well. However, the hit was not weak. During this period, Hanwha's team batting average was 277, second only to Lotte (0.306). He scored 5.1 points per game, ranking second in scoring. This means that the harmony between the batting and the mound is well harmonized.

On the first day of the Children's Day series against Samsung on the 5th, which seemed to be a crisis while winning six consecutive games, he won 3-1 to tie for first place with LG, which lost on the same day.

The No. 1 and No. 10 became joint No. 1 at some point. A composition that I never expected before this season. The competition for first place between the two teams, which show dramatic developments, begins now.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.