3G 22 innings, 0 walks, 32K…Giant getting smaller in front of Daejeon Jesus, team home run last place rifle squad's limits?

Jun 18, 2025

3G 22 innings, 0 walks, 32K…Giant getting smaller in front of Daejeon Jesus, team home run last place rifle squad's limits?
In the game between Hanwha and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 17th, Hanwha Weiss thanked center fielder Lee Won-seok for catching Lotte Son Ho-young's ball with a good defense in the bottom of the 5th inning. Busan = Reporter's book @sportschosun.com/2025.06.17/



3G 22 innings, 0 walks, 32K…Giant getting smaller in front of Daejeon Jesus, team home run last place rifle squad's limits?
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung played a game between Hanwha and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 17th. Busan = Reporter's book @sportschosun.com/2025.06.17/
Rifles in last place (41, as of the 17th). He has good persistence and hindsight to penetrate the opponent's shaking, but he can't keep his pace in front of the ace.

The Lotte Giants are a team that is good at 'pulling away'. Once you ride the flow, you create a big inning at once. This is the key to turning things around in the second half of the game.

On the other hand, his weaknesses are clear against a certain ace. In that case, there is no need for a single shot. The performance of the third place in the OPS (on-base plus slugging rate, 0.752), which is lower than the first place in the team batting average (28.4 percent), proves this pattern.




A total of 15 players have hit double-digit home runs in the league. However, Lotte has yet to find one. KT Wiz, which was in a similar situation, already ranked 7th with 49 home runs due to the appearance of a monster batter named Ahn Hyun-min (13 home runs). SSG Landers, ranked ninth in the team's home run, has legend Choi Jeong, who hit nine even in a short playing time, and Doosan is also a team with Yang Eui-ji (12).

On the other hand, Lotte's Reyes (eight) is ranked first in the team and tied for 18th in the home run category. Na Seung-yeop (7), Jeon Joon-woo (6) will follow.

3G 22 innings, 0 walks, 32K…Giant getting smaller in front of Daejeon Jesus, team home run last place rifle squad's limits?
롯데 나승엽. Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.04.30/
The match against Hanwha Eagles on the 17th was a game that revealed Lotte's weaknesses. He had only three sporadic hits against Weiss, striking out nine.




Pitchers without any fear dig into the strike zone with more confidence. Weiss has a 1.64 ERA in three games against Lotte this season, pitching as many as 22 innings. Two runs in six innings, two runs in eight innings, and eight scoreless innings, respectively.

What stands out in particular is that he did not give up a single walk while striking out as many as 32. It shows the fear of the ace, who is not burdened with long balls. Only veterans Jeong Hoon (two) and Reyes had hits against Weiss.

Weiss is not the only one. Most of the ace pitchers who took the mound in more than two games against Lotte this season, including Doosan's Jack Log, SSG Anderson-White, Samsung's Won Tae-in, KIA's Kim Do-hyun and KT's Ko Young-pyo and Oh Won-seok, performed better against Lotte than their season performances.




"It's good to have a big shot. I don't recommend it because I'm afraid the batting balance will collapse, but it's one shot to destroy the aces. It's hard to hit consecutive hits."

3G 22 innings, 0 walks, 32K…Giant getting smaller in front of Daejeon Jesus, team home run last place rifle squad's limits?
Hwang Sung-bin, who fell out due to a broken finger, is likely to return to the second half of the year. Jang Doo-sung is preparing to return among the next cars. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.1/
Lotte's trend has continued since last year. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung said "The day the ace comes out, I just wait for it to go down."," he sighed. It is also difficult to make a must-win group, but the batting line is not even able to touch properly against ace-class starting pitchers.

Another problem is that there is no player who can serve as a breakthrough to quench his thirst due to repeated injuries. In this case, players like Yoon Dong-hee and Na Seung-yeop, who have a shot, or Hwang Sung-bin and Jang Doo-sung, who change the atmosphere with their feet, are all down to the second division due to injuries. Head coach Kim Tae-hyung seemed to be agonizing over using Han Tae-yang instead of Son Ho-young and Son Sung-bin instead of Information Geun, but he did not produce a result.

Lotte is now focusing on holding out until the All-Star Game. It's still a long way off, but if Lotte succeeds in its first fall baseball in eight years this season, the absence of a shot could be a fatal weakness.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.