The problem is the pitcher
Jul 21, 2025
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Asked why Kiwoom was sluggish in the first half, acting coach Seol said, `There must have been many things. The rotation of foreign players and pitchers would have been a problem, but first of all, the operation was insufficient and the running baseball was not possible. It is a team that does not have a superior team home run and does not have a high on-base percentage. I think we should try something we haven't done before. Overall, there were few attempts to play. I'm going to bunt a lot, too. I'm going to sign off on the bench" he revealed his plan.
At a time when the level of criticism was rising inside and outside the club. But the scene needed a quick fix.
Acting coach Seol enthusiastically promoted the team.
Acting coach Seol, who met the players, greeted them, and delivered a message, said "The team's performance was not good, so the atmosphere seemed to be very down." The players don't seem to be desperate. We talked about those parts." `I feel a lot of pressure, a lot of responsibility,' he said of his goal for the second half of the year. `It was a little over 30% in the first half. In the second half, he aims for a .40 to .500 winning percentage in the rest of the game. To win, we need a bench operation and the spirit of sacrifice of the players. Song Seong-moon, the captain who heard this, said "If you saw it that way, it is right that we should be more desperate "
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Acting coach Seol played bench baseball from the beginning, as he vowed.
He tried to steal bases whenever he had time, and there were also attempts to sacrifice bunt even though it was early in the game. The steal was successful twice and failed once.
In the top of the second inning, when it was 1-1, Jeon Tae-hyun's sacrifice bunt with no outs and first base went back to catcher foul fly failure. Lee Ju-hyung's steal in the third inning led to a come-from-behind score. Somehow, he played a small ball to build up scores with baseball that he squeezed from the beginning.
But the problem was that the place was Lions Park. Small ball didn't work at the stadium of the big ball.
Kiwoom's five-run big inning in the fourth inning was also made by Stone's three-run home run following an error. The sense of relief that he seems to be confident of winning with a 7-3 lead is also brief. The extreme home run cloud of Samsung's batters was approaching.
Samsung, which chased Koo Ja-wook 5-7 with a two-run home run in the fifth inning, quickly brought the 7-7 game to square one with Kim Young-woong and Kim Tae-hoon's solo shot in the sixth inning. Alcantara, who allowed four home runs, quickly put in Lee Joon-woo, but Lee Jae-hyun allowed a come-from-behind two-run shot, 9-7.
The attached Samsung batters added four more points in the seventh inning with Diaz's solo shot and Lee Sung-kyu's two-run shot.
The game was swept away by Samsung's seven home runs in an instant. In the beginning, the big ball dominated the game as if laughing at small baseballs that squeeze out sacrifice bunt.
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Kiwoom's mound is overwhelmingly last among the 10 clubs. The team's ERA is the only five-point range (5.56). The starting ERA is last with 4.94, but it is not much different from Lotte (4.69), which is ranked ninth. However, the bullpen ERA is serious at 6.47. It is a huge gap with ninth-ranked KIA (4.87).
Even if he holds the lead, the weak bullpen often flips it. The winning rate of the game, which was leading until the fifth inning, was the lowest with 0.656 (21 wins, 2 draws and 11 losses). He is No. 1 overall with 25 come-from-behind losses. On this day, Kiwoom's bullpen also failed to prevent a come-from-behind loss by allowing six runs in four innings from the sixth inning when Alcantara came down.
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Before the season, Kiwoom sacrificed the mound to strengthen its lineup. 'Inningter'Hurado waived his contract with Heysus. Instead, Puig and Cardinez were recruited to strengthen the lineup.
It was a natural step to fill the height of the weakened mound through a big ball. But Kiwoom's prescription didn't work. Without being able to strengthen the lineup, only the mound was destroyed.
There is only a serious task left on the mound side. It is a structure that is difficult to solve for those who have tried to turn a blind eye to misjudgment and shout only small balls.
The two pitchers who were able to digest acting coach Seol's idea, which he said `Foreign pitchers basically plan to go more than six innings,' were Hurado and Heyesus, who Kiwoom dumped for two foreign batters.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
