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| Lotte Reyes is happy to hit a hit in the bottom of the eighth inning at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/ |
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| Jeon Joon-woo and Reyes, who homered during the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd, and Lotte Kim Min-sung's come-from-behind three-run double with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, share joy. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/ |
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| Lotte won the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd with a score of 9-6. Reyes, Han Seung-hyun, and Kim Dong-hyuk share the joy of victory. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/ |
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If you dominate batting average, home run, and RBI, you will be praised as 'triple crown'. Even in the era of Saber Matrix, these records are still respected as the flower of the batting.
Victor Reyes has played in 75 games this season, recording 347 eight home runs and 59 RBIs in towels and 0.900 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS).
He played in all 144 games last year. This year, he has been consistently performing without any significant slump or injuries. It's not a big shot, but when the team needs it, it drives home runs.
He is second in batting average after Samsung's Kim Sung-yoon (35.8 percent) and second in RBIs after Diaz (79 percent). The top spot on the most hits was reserved unless there was an injury. With 107 hits, he has a difference of around 20 with Diaz (86) in second place.
Among the hitters who filled the regular at-bats, only KIA Choi Hyung-woo exceeded OPS 1.0. Diaz, who hit 27 home runs, also hit only 0.983. With the overall performance of hitters falling from last year, Reyes has almost the same performance as last year. In part, the pace is a bit faster.
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| A game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd, and Jeon Joon-woo hitting an RBI timely hit with one out and runners on the first and second bases in the bottom of the third inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/ |
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He doesn't have much presence in defense, but he has good shoulders and shows a great home game. He is undeniably one of the foreign hitters who can compete for the best this year.
The presence in the team is enormous. In addition to the aforementioned records, the number of points scored (44), slugging percentage (50.1 percent), on-base percentage (390 percent), and contribution to victory (hereinafter WAR, 2.57) against substitutes (26) are all No. 1 in the team. The same is true of the batting average in scoring position (386). Reyes is not the No. 1 player in Lotte's team, and there is only one stolen base (10 Hwang Sung-bin).
He is a representative player who is undervalued due to his small number of home runs. At the beginning of the season, there were even voices calling for replacement, saying, `Since the rebuilding of the lineup is over with Yoon Go-na Hwang-son, we need a batter who can hit a home run.' Of course, Lotte went in as it became an injured ward. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung laughed it off from the beginning of the season, saying, `There is a player who hits hard when he needs to, and if we release him, the other team will take him right away.' Reyes is also credited to Lotte for maintaining its third place by winning points that can be won even in the midst of a serious power loss.
The players behind Reyes are Captain Jeon Joon-woo and Ko Seung-min. Even at the age of 39, Jeon Jun-woo showed outstanding performance with a batting average of 292, six home runs and 46 RBIs. He is followed by Reyes in RBIs (46), WAR (2.08), most hits (80), slugging percentage (43.34), and OPS (0.799). If Jeon Jun-woo is in the center batting line, the table setter is Ko Seung-min. He ranks second in the team in batting average (22.2%) and runs (39).
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| A game between Doosan and Lotte at Jamsil Stadium on the 7th. Ko Seung-min hit a timely RBI single in the seventh inning. Jamsil = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.07/ |
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Na Seung-yeop's absence is also palpable. He hit seven home runs until April, but he was later removed from the first team due to sluggishness and injuries. In the end, Na Seung-yeop and Jeon Jun-woo are the players who will form a clean-up trio with Reyes.
That said, Reyes doesn't exaggerate his credit. In the end, it is emphasized that team members have a role that is given, and that they are only doing that role. In the end, the team's victory is the result of the three baseball players (Hwang Sung-bin, Jang Doo-sung and Kim Dong-hyuk) breaking through the road and posting themselves and other main hitters when needed. The strength of the mound, including starting pitcher and closing pitcher Kim Won-joong, is also essential. "When I was not good enough to win, there were many games that I won with my teammates."
In addition to Jeon Joon-woo, Kim Min-sung, Jung Hoon-do, and Kim Tae-hyung, who are active as the team's locker room leaders, also came together as a whole team. I feel like I don't think I'm going to lose every game these days. There are many cases of overturning the game that you want to go over. Each other is a great help to each other." It is the reason and driving force for Lotte, which has been struggling even with the top five in objective power, to remain in the top three with confidence.
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| Lotte-KT match held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 12th. Lotte won 12-7 after the extended game in the 10th inning. Head coach Kim Tae-hyung is greeting the stands. Suwon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.6.12/ |
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
