I finally found the batting order that you were running around! Lee Jung-hoo batting average of 0.354 is the best in 7th place, and he is starting center fielder for 5 consecutive games

Aug 06, 2025

I finally found the batting order that you were running around! Lee Jung-hoo batting average of 0.354 is the best in 7th place, and he is starting center fielder for 5 consecutive games
Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants is training to hit at the batting cage ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates match at Oracle Park on the 5th (Korea time). ImagesYonhap News



I finally found the batting order that you were running around! Lee Jung-hoo batting average of 0.354 is the best in 7th place, and he is starting center fielder for 5 consecutive games
Lee Jung-hoo gestures toward his teammates while maintaining the base after hitting a right-center triple in the top of the fifth inning. AP Yonhap News
San Francisco Giants Lee Jung-hoo has no batting order that he hasn't taken this season.

In terms of starting games, he played seven batting orders, excluding eight and nine. Coach Bob Melvin has been operating various lineups throughout the season as the offense has not gone well, but in the case of Lee Jung-hoo, who has a long slump and a jagged condition, the frequency and breadth of the batting order were large.

Coach Melvin said he would make Lee Jung-hoo the third hitter with built-in ahead of the opening of this season, explaining the reason that `Lee Jung-hoo has excellent contact heating and runs a lot on base.' It meant that even if he lacked long balls, he could hit a lot in a clutch situation.




However, when his batting average collapsed in mid-May, Lee Jung-hoo briefly took charge of No. 4, No. 3, No. 2, No. 1, No. 6, No. 7 and No. 5 since the end of May. If the opponent fails to hit the previous day or makes a left-hander selection, they are pushed to the bottom of the batting order, and if they hit hard, such as multi-base hits the previous day, they took the leadoff.

I finally found the batting order that you were running around! Lee Jung-hoo batting average of 0.354 is the best in 7th place, and he is starting center fielder for 5 consecutive games
Lee Jung-hoo runs after hitting a triple to the right-center in the fifth inning with two outs and runners on first and second bases. AFP Yonhap News
However, the pattern has changed recently. Lee Jung-hoo's batting order is fixed at No. 7. Lee Jung-hoo was listed in the starting lineup as the seventh center fielder in Game 2 of the three away games against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on the 6th. He will be the seventh hitter in five consecutive games since the game against the New York Mets on the 2nd.

Coach Melvin lined up in the order of Elliott Ramos, Rafael Devers, Willy Adames, Matt Chapman, Dominic Smith, Herar Encarnacion, Lee Jung-hoo, Patrick Bailey and Christian Kos. Pittsburgh is starting right-hander Mike Burrows.




Compared to the previous day, seven players, including Ramos No. 1, Devers No. 2, Adames No. 3, Chapman No. 4, Smith No. 5, Lee Jung-hoo No. 7 and Bailey No. 8, are in the same batting order. Encarnixion and backup infielder course, who were released from the injured list the previous day, had a chance to start.

However, Lee Jung-hoo is playing the best in the seventh batting order this season. He has a batting average of 0.354 (17 hits in 48 at-bats), an on-base percentage of 0.415, an on-base percentage of 0.521 and an OPS of 0.936 in 14 games, including hits in the last four consecutive games against Pittsburgh the previous day. It shows the highest figure in the ratio-related sector.

The batting average of other batting order is 0.174 for No. 1, 0.333 for No. 2, 0.275 for No. 3, 0.188 for No. 4, 0.229 for No. 5, and 0.125 for No. 6. It is not clear why he is batting well in No. 7, but it is highly likely that Melvin is paying attention to this.




Lee Jung-hoo made four hits and one walk in four at-bats against the Mets on the 4th, playing four hits and five bases for the first time since his Major League debut. In the previous day's match against Pittsburgh, he called in two players when he hit a penetrating triple in the right-center with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the fifth inning. In August, the ability to cope with fastballs and off-speed pitches has risen sharply. All of them are phenomena that appeared in position 7.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.