Last place in team home run → No breakthrough! Lotte, who met LG, revealed its bare face again...Desperate to fix one shot.

Jul 21, 2025

Last place in team home run → No breakthrough! Lotte, who met LG, revealed its bare face again...Desperate to fix one shot.
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 20th. Lotte players who lost are disappointed. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.20/



Last place in team home run → No breakthrough! Lotte, who met LG, revealed its bare face again...Desperate to fix one shot.
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 20th. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung is lost in thought. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.20/
"Do I have to?"

Which team is the most difficult to deal with the Lotte Giants.

Question asked when Lotte was on the rise in the first half of the year. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung did not hesitate to pick the LG Twins. He explained that it is difficult to deal with because there are no gaps in the lineup and has a stable overall history.




Coach Kim Tae-hyung said, "'There should have been a match against LG when the momentum was good like these days.'" Do we have to play against LG when it's good like these days. It's enough to be beaten up in the opening series." It's better to keep riding the good flow away from LG. It was a word that revealed his burden of playing against LG.

But you can't avoid a specific team in a single league. I met LG again with the opening of the second half. Before the series, he showed an equal opponent with three wins, four losses and one draw, but after a close game in each game, he finally accepted the report card of the losing series.

In all three games, the team that had fewer hits than the opponent and got more four outs won. In a fierce pitching match, the game is decided by the shaking of the mound or a decisive shot.




Last place in team home run → No breakthrough! Lotte, who met LG, revealed its bare face again...Desperate to fix one shot.
The game between Doosan and Lotte at Busan Sajik Baseball Stadium on the 8th, and Lotte Reyes, with one out and third base, hit a superior two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning and share joy with Jeon Joon-woo. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.07.08/
And here's Lotte's concern of 'No. 1 team batting average'.

He has 48 homers. He is overwhelmingly the last among the 10 teams. There's no 'one shot' to break through when you're overwhelmed.

Reyes (scoring batting average of 394) and Jeon Jun-woo (340) are too burdened. Yoo Kang-nam, who has rebounded from this year's batting, is still there.




What's clear is that neither Reyes nor Jeon Jun-woo can hit home runs. Reyes (10) tops in home runs in his team.

The result is less than half of the team's No. 1 home run Samsung (100), and 13 behind KT Wiz and Doosan Bears, tied for 8th, 61 over 9.

On the other hand, LG is a team that is ahead of and behind the KIA Tigers for second place in team home runs. In this series, Park Dong-won in Game 1 and Moon Sung-joo in Game 3 each hit a tie-breaking home run, reversing the atmosphere that could have been under the pressure of the team, and finally produced a come-from-behind victory. Lotte, on the other hand, has no home run in the second half yet.

Last place in team home run → No breakthrough! Lotte, who met LG, revealed its bare face again...Desperate to fix one shot.
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 20th. LG Moon Sung-joo is cheering after hitting a solo shot with one out in the bottom of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.20/
Manager Kim Tae-hyung said, `It's good to have one shot, but Lotte doesn't have a natural big shot right now. I'm worried that my batting balance will be disrupted while paying attention to home runs." Na Seung-yeop, who hit seven home runs at the beginning of the season, has rarely escaped the slump since falling into this trap. Now that Son Ho-young, who was the No. 1 player in the team last year (18), has collapsed, there are no notable candidates.

When Han Dong-hee returns next year, will he be able to end this worry. Autumn baseball for the first time in eight years is right in front of me. The postseason is a feast of steel and big guns.

Immediately after Lotte's appointment, "No player hit 20 home runs, right? Is there a player who can play?The sigh of the head coach, who tilted his head, is still ongoing.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.