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| NC Dinos Lee Woo-sung hits against the Lotte Giants on the 29th. Photo courtesy =NC Dinos |
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| Lee Woosung returns to NC Dinos. Busan=Kwon Inha Reporter |
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| NC Choi Won-joon and Lee Woo-sung are lecturing in NC training suits at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 29th. Photo courtesy =NC Dinos |
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"He sent me to the All-Star Game and he was with me when I won the championship."
Lee Woo-sung, who returned to the NC Dinos, thanked KIA Tigers fans for seven years.
Lee Woo-sung, who joined Doosan as the 15th player in the second round in 2013, moved to NC in 2018 after playing for Doosan until 2017 and moved back to KIA in a year. And he grew little by little, improved to a batting average of 292 (35 hits) in 2022, and then rose to the starting lineup in 2023 to hit 311, 107 hits, eight home runs and 58 RBIs. Last year, he had a batting average of 288, 115 hits, nine homers, and 54 RBIs, contributing to his team's first win in seven years. He was also named first baseman in the All-Star Best 12.
He has been sluggish this season. He had a batting average of 2.15 (34 hits in 158 at-bats) with two homers and 16 RBIs in 57 games. He went down to the second division on the 24th, but was traded on the 28th to return to NC for the first time in seven years.
"I was waiting for the bus for the 2nd Army expedition, and when I heard the trade news, I immediately cleaned up my luggage."Lee Woo-sung said in a calm tone, "Honestly, it was third, so it didn't take much thought.'" The first time a player who left NC in a trade has returned to the trade. Lee Woo-sung heard that this is the first case in the NC. "It's an honor and I feel a sense of responsibility," he said. "Coach Lee Ho-joon, who was a coach when I left, and the older brothers who were with me are now captains and veterans." The players who were together in the second division have settled down in the first division. I said hello with pleasure because I knew many faces."
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| KIA and KT at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 22nd, and KIA Lee Woo-sung, with the bases loaded with one out, hits a timely two-run hit in the top of the fifth inning and cheers. Suwon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.22/ |
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| Lotte and KIA at Gwangju KIA Champions Field on the 13th, and KIA Lee Woo-sung at second base hits in the bottom of the fourth inning with no outs. Gwangju = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.05.13/ |
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| KBO League Kiwoom and KIA at Gocheok Dome on May 5. KIA Lee Woo-sung hit by pitch in the eighth inning. Gocheok=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.05/ |
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When coach Lee Ho-joon said he thought of this year's slump as psychological rather than technical, Lee Woo-sung said, `I think it's a pity because something has changed technically as wellIt was when coach Lee Ho-joon taught me as a hitting coach that I started to make my name known in the first team for the first time in NC. Now that there is a coach and a hitting coach, I think there is no further fall, only good things will happen"I thought positively.
There was only one piece of advice that Lee Woo-sung, who greeted head coach Lee Ho-joon, gave. Lee Woo-sung "The coach told me not to bow down and to play baseball confidently. I made up my mind to do the same."
When Lee Woo-sung asked KIA fans to say his last words, he also sent me to the All-Star Game without anything. I've never played fall baseball before, but I won the first fall baseball and they were with me. I think I'm going to cry even now"This year, I was criticized a lot because I was so bad at baseball, but I still made ridiculous things and memories in my career. I thanked KIA fans."
To NC fans who met again, "I felt sorry because I was so bad at baseball at that time that I felt like I only caused inconvenience to them." "I'll do my best without causing inconvenience to them."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
