I threw away my rifle. LG, who transformed into a team of home runs, ranked second in homers in Jamsil. No. 1 in May

May 19, 2025

The game between Doosan and LG at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 22nd, LG Moon Bo-kyung hitting a superior three-run home run with no outs in the bottom of the first inning and sharing joy. Jamsil = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2024.09.22/



I threw away my rifle. LG, who transformed into a team of home runs, ranked second in homers in Jamsil. No. 1 in May
A game between the LG Twins and the Kiwoom Heroes at Jamsil Stadium on the 15th. LG Park Dong-won is cheering after hitting a solo shot with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.15/
I threw away my rifle. LG, who transformed into a team of home runs, ranked second in homers in Jamsil. No. 1 in May
A game between the Doosan Bears and the LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium on the 6th. In the top of the sixth inning, LG Austin hits a three-run shot with no outs and runners on the first and second bases. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.06/
Now it's the cannon's team. The team color of the LG Twins is changing to the team of home runs.

LG had 47 home runs in 46 games this season. It ranks second in team home runs behind the Samsung Lions, who have 55 home runs in 47 games.

He is hitting one per game.




LG hit just 0.65 home runs per game in 2023 but hit 115 home runs last year, increasing it to 0.8 per game. And one more this season.

Austin Dean and Park Dong-won hit 12 home runs each, tied for second place in home runs, and Moon Bo-kyung tied for fourth place with 10, with 34 home runs out of 47 team home runs. Three players hit more than 70% of the team's home runs. Oh Ji-hwan has five, and Kim Hyun-soo and Song Chan-eui have two each.

In particular, he hit 18 in 15 games in May, ranking first in team home runs. NC ranks second with 15, KT is third with 14, and Samsung and Doosan are tied for fourth with 13.




Home runs often lead to victory.

That was the case against KT Wiz on the 18th. LG, which scored the first run with Kim Hyun-soo's superior double on Park Hae-min's right-handed hit in the bottom of the first inning, led 3-0 with Park Dong-won's two-run shot to the middle wall after two outs. At the bottom of the third inning, when Moon Bo-kyung scored a superior two-run shot to lead 5-1 after giving up one run in the top of the third inning, and although he did not score an additional point after that, starter Yoni Chirinos did not score an additional run until the sixth inning and the bullpen was blocked without losing a point, winning 5-1.

In the match against Kiwoom on the 15th, Oh Ji-hwan, a two-out, first baseman, fired a preemptive two-run shot to take the lead, and Park Dong-won's solo shot turned the flow of the game back to LG at the end of the eighth inning when they were chased 3-2.




In the second game of the doubleheader against KT on the 17th, Koo Bon-hyuk's two-run shot in the bottom of the second inning and Kim Hyun-soo's three-run shot in the bottom of the fifth inning led 6-1, but later suffered a 6-7 come-from-behind loss as the bullpen failed to block KT's lineup.

It's good to have a lot of home runs, but it's a shame that there are fewer goals with concentrated hits such as timely hits other than home runs recently. In particular, as home runs come from certain players, other disadvantages may be that expectations for scoring may decrease.

LG, which uses the largest Jamsil Stadium in the KBO League, is playing a big ball that hits many home runs. LG used to be a team that had a lot of hits and stole a lot, but now it has added long balls. It's definitely becoming more scary to the opposing team.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.