Three home runs, five runs. The joy of Lee Chang-jin's batting judgment was a mistake, and the game flew away.

Aug 10, 2025

Three home runs, five runs. The joy of Lee Chang-jin's batting judgment was a mistake, and the game flew away.
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A game that showed how an invisible error changed the game.

KIA Tigers suffered a come-from-behind defeat. Lee Chang-jin's mistake in judging the batting completely changed the flow of the game.

KIA lost 12-16 in the last game of three consecutive weekend games against the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on the 10th.




Why were you disappointed. Because he scored five points first in the top of the second inning. Choi Hyung-woo, Wisdom and Kim Ho-ryeong made a big inning with three home runs. But the joy is also brief. KIA took the lead of self-destruction by giving NC eight points in the bottom of the second inning.

If you make a big inning, you can give it away. But the process is important. If a pitcher is beaten and gives a score, he can be 'I guess so', but if the flow of the game changes due to a mistake that should not be made at the professional level, managers, coaches and fans will get a thousand dollars.

The situation was like this. NC followed one run with consecutive hits by Park Gun-woo and Lee Woo-sung. So far, so good. And starter Lee Eui-ri induced Kim Hyung-joon to fly to left field. It was a slightly short ball, but it seemed that left fielder Lee Chang-jin could catch it because of the long ball time.




Three home runs, five runs. The joy of Lee Chang-jin's batting judgment was a mistake, and the game flew away.
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However, Lee Chang-jin made a wrong judgment on the ball, so he stopped the start backward, and he ran hard toward the ball, knowing that it was a missed ball late, but the ball fell sharply. Hit. This hit created a crisis with runners on first and third bases with no outs. It was a hit, but it was actually a mistake.

Seo Ho-cheol's ball was similar after that. It was lower and faster than Kim Hyung-joon's batting. Even if he started on time, it could have been a ball that needed to be handled with a bound. But even when Seo Ho-chul hit, Lee Chang-jin couldn't take his first step. He threw himself, but the ball bound and hit.

Then, Lee Eui-ri, who showed perfect control, began to shake rapidly. He is not a good type of player, but he collapsed by giving walks and pitches to Kwon Hee-dong and Kim Joo-won, as if he became extremely anxious about the unexpected situation. Bad luck overlapped. Park Min-woo's missed ball rolled superbly between the pitcher and the catcher and became an RBI infield hit. KIA ordered Lee Eui-ri early and put in Kim Geon-guk, but Kim Geon-guk allowed Park Geon-woo to load the bases and completely handed over the flow.




Lee Chang-jin also made an error in the ninth inning when KIA was trailing 8-14 to 12-14. He moved to right field, and after dealing with a foul fly against the runner on second base, he threw the ball to block the runner going to third base, but the throw went backward with an irregular bound and NC's wedge came out.

Manager Lee Bum-ho threw a winning move to send Lee Chang-jin as the first batter to solve the attack. On the 8th, he was called up in place of Kim Do-young, who left due to a hamstring injury. He showed good batting performance during training. With one hit, one walk and two RBIs, the bat did its part. However, due to unexpected mistakes in defense, both players and teams were greatly hurt.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.