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| The Kiwoom-LG match at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 9th. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop is watching the game. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.9/ |
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| A match between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Daegu Lions Park on the 5th. LG Chirinos is catching his breath. Daegu=Park Jae-man Reporter pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.05/ |
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| The match between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Daegu Lions Park on the 6th. LG Hernandez is pitching hard. Daegu=Park Jae-man Reporter pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.06/ |
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LG Twins manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who had emphasized the attack first, changed the tone, saying, "We are the team of batta".
In the end, the strength of the pitching and hitting winds this season comes first rather than the offense.
Yeom has always emphasized offense against LG baseball, saying, `Our baseball is offensive baseball.' Even when he fell into a slump after the early rise this season "The first should be an offense." had been emphasized.
However, he changed his mind after the first half. Coach Yeom met with reporters at Jamsil Stadium on the 15th and talked about the second half of the season, saying, "The first was when our team did well and other top teams did well in the end when the starters did their part in consecutive wins." "We also pitched well when we were good in the beginning, and Hanwha ranked first because the starter was good." The same is true when Lotte and KIA were good. In the end, he performed well when the starter was good." Hanwha, which ranked first in the first half, was largely attributed to Cody Ponce, who won 11 games, and Ryan Weiss, who won 10, and Lotte, which ranked third, also led the team to an upward trend with five consecutive wins by replacement Alec Gamboa.
Manager Yeom explained LG's early rise as an example. "We were able to win seven consecutive games and six consecutive games even though we only had two players in the bullpen at the beginning of the season because the starting pitcher threw all six or seven innings, so the bullpen was not overloaded."The reason we haven't won consecutive games now is because foreign starters are collapsing in the fifth and sixth innings. Looking at the data in the first half of the year, the advantage of each team's good performance was that they had one thing in common. In the end, the first, second, and third starters, and in the end, foreign pitchers should be considered to be at the helm."
Manager Yeom has been speaking of a winning formula that makes the mound easier by drawing points after the attack, but this season's pitching and hitting are so strong that the formula is not right now through data from the first half. It is the winning formula of this season that the first thing the starter stops is, and then the next thing is to score points with offense and win.
LG's domestic starters, including Lim Chan-kyu, Son Joo-young and Song Seung-ki, are solid. Lim Chan-kyu and Song Seung-ki are tied for sixth with eight wins each, while Son Joo-young is also tied for 11th with seven wins. In terms of ERA, Lim Chan-kyu is seventh overall with 2.88, and Song Seung-ki is 17th with 3.39.
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| The game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 2nd. LG Lim Chan-kyu is pitching hard. Busan = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.02/ |
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| The Kiwoom-LG match at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 9th. LG starter Son Joo-young is pitching. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.9/ |
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| Kiwoom-LG match held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 10th. LG starter Song Seung-ki is relieved after overcoming the loss crisis in the top of the fourth inning. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.10/ |
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However, foreign pitchers have fallen from the beginning. First starter Yoni Chirinos is tied for 11th and 18th in ERA with 7 wins and 4 losses and an ERA of 3.48. Although he had a good early start, he has recently shown a sudden collapse after the fifth inning and is showing physical limitations.
Eliaser Hernandez is also suspected of having reached the limit as his weaknesses shown last year were revealed again. He shows tremendous pitching in the beginning, but after the batting order has turned once, the hit rate has risen and the number of runs has increased, making him unable to play long innings. Hernandez, who has 4 wins, 3 losses and a 4.24 ERA in 11 games, failed to throw five innings in four consecutive games, but ended the first half by recovering his pride with a quality start of five hits and two runs in six innings against Samsung on the 6th, his last appearance in the first half.
Coach Yeom gave Chirinos, who looked tired in the second half of the first half, a time to recover with a long rest. In the second half, Son Joo-young, Hernandez, Lim Chan-kyu, Song Seung-ki, and Chirinos will start. Left-handed Son Joo-young and Song Seung-ki, foreign pitchers Hernandez and Chirinos were separated so that the opposing team could meet a different style of pitcher every day.
Coach Yeom said, `One game will be fierce in the second half of the year. It's already become very important to play one game. You have to do your best in every game"Injuries prevention is the top priority even in the second half of the year. In any team, if the core members are missing, it will be a fatal blow. The same goes for us. "Chapo (Hong Chang-ki Austin) is already out." He hoped that the players would play an all-out game without injury in the fierce second half.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
