Soft golf swing. Perfect Lee Jung-hoo, who broke the splitter of Yamamoto's fear, is guaranteed to revive 0.324 in July
Jul 14, 2025
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Lee Jung-hoo recorded one hit and one walk in three at-bats against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Oracle Park on the 14th (Korea time). San Francisco tied the game with difficulty and lost 2-5 in overtime.
Lee Jung-hoo, who slowed down to no hits in three at-bats the previous day, finished the last game of the first half in a good mood by tapping Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched brilliantly on the day. Lee Jung-hoo, who had been sluggish from mid-May to the end of June, rebounded by batting .324 (12 hits in 37 times at bat), six RBIs, three runs scored, and an OPS of 0.852 in 10 games in July.
As a result, Lee Jung-hoo had a batting average of 0.249 (86 hits in 345 at-bats), six home runs, 40 RBIs, 49 points, 32 walks, 44 strikeouts, six steals, a on-base percentage of 0.317, a slugging percentage of 0.403 and an OPS of 0.720. He is second in the NL with eight triples.
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At the ball count of 1B1S, he pulled a 91-mile splitter that fell quickly toward Yamamoto's third pitch and dropped the ball in front of right fielder Teoscar Hernandez, who was running toward the foul line. With a launch angle of 21 degrees, a batting speed of 76.3 miles, and a distance of 229 feet, Yamamoto hit the splitter perfectly.
Local broadcaster Hunter Pence of the 'Roku Sports Channel' commentator said, `Lee Jung-hoo nicely hit with a golf swing when the Giants' messy splitter fell down the strike zone after two outs with their first long ball taken from Yamamoto. I hit and ran perfectly as the grandson of the wind " Can you see that bat trajectory? The golf swing is soft, smooth and cheerful."
Pence made his big league debut with the Houston Astros in 2007 and was a mid- to long-range slugger who played as San Francisco's main outfielder from 2012-2020.
Lee Jung-hoo ran all out to the point where his helmet came off after turning first base and settled on second base. Teoscar's throw hasn't even come to second base yet. It was the first long hit of the day that San Francisco hitters took away from Yamamoto. Lee Jung-hoo tied for 17th in the NL with 19 doubles.
Then Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior went to the mound to calm Yamamoto, who threw 87 pitches. San Francisco is in dire need of a point. However, Casey Schmidt, the next batter, failed to call in Lee Jung-hoo after being struck out by Yamamoto's 90-mile body splitter on the fourth pitch with a ball count of 1B2S.
Lee Jung-hoo hit a ground ball to the first base in his first at-bat in the bottom of the second inning when he was 0-0. With two outs and runners on first base, Yamamoto's fourth pitch outside splitter of 91.6 miles was missed and flowed in front of first baseman Freddie Freeman. In the fifth inning, trailing 0-2, he took the lead as a leadoff hitter and pushed Yamamoto's fifth pitch 77 miles outside curve at the ball count 2B2S, but was caught by left fielder Esteuri Ruiz.
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In the top of the fourth inning when the Dodgers were 0-0, Freddie Freeman hit a double that ran to the right fence to score the first run, and after one out in the fifth inning, Miguel Rojas' solo home run to the left led to a 2-0 run. However, San Francisco tied the game 2-2 when pinch hitter Luis Matos tapped Scott with a two-run home run in left-center following Matt Chapman's heavy hit in the bottom of the ninth inning.
On the other hand, the overtime game was bland. San Francisco blocked the top of the 10th inning well, but did not score a point in the attack in the bottom of the 10th inning. Then, in the top of the 11th inning, Mookie Betts and Will Smith were out with no outs and runners on the first and second bases, but Freeman hit a timely hit in front of center fielder Lee Jung-hoo to lead the first point, and added two more runs with Teoscar's infield hit and Andy Pazs' timely hit to run 5-2.
San Francisco eventually failed to score an extra point and fell to its knees.
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Dodgers starter Yamamoto pitched seven innings of three hits, two walks and seven strikeouts, but he had to settle for lowering his ERA to 2.59 while missing the victory due to the difficulty of closer Tanner Scott.
San Francisco, which lost the second and third games in a row after catching the first game of the three consecutive games, ended the first half with 52 wins and 45 losses in the NL West. The Dodgers firmly maintained their No. 1 ranking in the West with 58 wins and 39 losses. He has 5.5 games and six games against the San Diego Padres (52 wins and 44 losses).
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
