Lee Jung-hoo, who has no hits in 5 at-bats, maintains an OPS of 80% at 30%, but it is difficult if it is frequent

May 08, 2025

Lee Jung-hoo, who has no hits in 5 at-bats, maintains an OPS of 80% at 30%, but it is difficult if it is frequent
Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants is changing his helmet as he prepares for his first at-bat in the top of the first inning against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on the 8th (Korea time). AP Yonhap News



Lee Jung-hoo, who has no hits in 5 at-bats, maintains an OPS of 80% at 30%, but it is difficult if it is frequent
Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants misses the bat after hitting in the seventh inning against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on the 8th (Korea time). ImagesYonhap News
San Francisco Giants Lee Jung-hoo failed to continue his momentum the day before and remained hitless.

Lee Jung-hoo played in center field 3 times in the last three consecutive away games against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on the 8th (Korea time) and went to bat 5 times and recorded no hits and one strikeout in 5 times at bat.

Lee Jung-hoo, who led the team to a 14-5 overtime victory by swinging three hits and three RBIs from six times at bat, including his fourth two-run home run of the season, cooled down in a day.




Lee Jung-hoo, who played his eighth hitless game this season, saw his batting average fall from 0.312 to 0.301 (43 hits in 143 at-bats). It is on the verge of collapse again. The OPS fell to 0.843. The number of strikeouts in the season has increased to 21, and the strikeout rate is 13.5%, which is a long way from entering the 10% level.

Lee Jung-hoo, who has no hits in 5 at-bats, maintains an OPS of 80% at 30%, but it is difficult if it is frequent
Lee Jung-hoo hits a shortstop fly in his second at-bat in the third inning. ImagesYonhap News
In the top of the first inning, his momentum was dampened when he stepped down with a catcher foul fly from a chance at first and second bases with no outs. A kick up the 87.2-mile knuckle-curve that fell into Cubs starter Ben Brown's body at two strikes loomed high. He hit a shortstop fly after two outs in the third inning with a 1-0 lead. Brown's first-pitch 94.1 mph fastball was struck, but it soared high.

He struck out in a scoring chance with runners on second base after one out in the fifth inning with a 3-1 lead. At the ball count of 1B2S, he misplayed the bat on a 95.5 mile fastball that dug outside Brown's fourth pitch.




In the seventh inning, he hit a ground ball to the second base with no outs and no outs, and in the ninth inning, he went out as the last batter with two outs and third base and retired with a ground ball to the third base. It was a pity that he never had a chance to score three times on the day. Nevertheless, his batting average for scoring this season is high at 0.353 (12 hits in 34 times at bat).

Batters usually enter four at-bats in a game, and in the case of top-ranked hitters from 1st to 3rd, there are often games in which they enter five at-bats. Even so, it is not a common case to never get on base in five at-bats.

Lee Jung-hoo, who has no hits in 5 at-bats, maintains an OPS of 80% at 30%, but it is difficult if it is frequent
Lee Jung-hoo is stepping down with a regretful look after striking out swinging in the fifth inning. AP Yonhap News
It is the third time that Lee Jung-hoo has been hitless in five at-bats this season after the Philadelphia Phillies on April 15 and the Los Angeles Angels on the 21st.




What is interesting is that none of the 18 batters who hit a batting average of more than 300 have played as many as Lee Jung-hoo in five at-bats.

San Diego Padres Fernando Tatis Jr. (0.321) scored twice, while New York Yankees Paul Goldschmidt (0.346), St. Louis Cardinals Brendan Donovan (0.331), Milwaukee Brewers Bryce Turang (0.318), Tampa Bay Rays Jonathan Aranda (0.317), and Toronto Blue Jays Josh Springer (0.316) each played one hitless game in five at-bats. The remaining 12 .300 hitters have never had a hitless game in five at-bats.

Among San Francisco hitters, Eliot Ramos was silent with two games and Matt Chapman and Luis Matos were silent with no hits in five at-bats once each.

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, ranked 19th overall in the batting average category after Lee Jung-hoo with a batting average of 0.299, also has only one game, and Josh Bell of the Washington Nationals, who is the lowest in batting average among 161 batters over the regulation.

Lee Jung-hoo has no choice but to acknowledge his ability to produce hits in that he maintains a batting average of 300 despite having the most hitless games in five times at bat.

With a 3-1 victory, San Francisco remained in third place in the NL West with 24 wins and 14 losses. San Francisco will take a day off on the 9th and start three consecutive away games against the Minnesota Twins from the 10th.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.