Winning for the first time in 29 years → 3rd place → 1st place? Is it going the way of the LG Dynasty…It's better this year than in 2023 and full of confidence
Aug 26, 2025
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The LG Twins are confident that this year is better than 2023, when they released their first win in 29 years. As of the 26th, LG is racing to No. 1 with 73 wins, 4 draws and 43 losses in the season. He is 5.5 games behind the second-place Hanwha Eagles (67 wins, 3 draws and 48 losses). If LG falls into a losing streak, a crisis may come once, but at the current atmosphere, it is unlikely to happen. This is because LG is on a roll, boasting an 80% winning rate in the second half of the year.
In fact, last year's champion KIA Tigers were the team that tried to build 'Dynasties' this year. MVP Kim Do-young, Choi Hyung-woo, Na Sung-bum, Kim Sun-bin, James Nail, and Yang Hyun-jong were not negative in last year's winning history, and new foreign pitcher Adam Oler and batter Patrick Wisdom were confident.
However, KIA cried due to the evil spirit of injury. As Kim Do-young left the season due to a hamstring injury three times, the most uncalculated variable was actually ending the season. Na Sung-bum and Kim Sun-bin blew quite a few games in the first half due to calf injuries, and the mound was overloaded as soon as Oler left due to elbow inflammation from the end of the first half to the beginning of the second half. In the end, it was difficult to enter autumn baseball, let alone build a dynasty, as the five-way battle fell to eighth place due to repeated losses during the fiercest period.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said, "(Baseball doesn't mean everything is good. Didn't everyone say that KIA will win first place before the season?" Baseball is just as difficult and unpredictable because it is human movement. You have to prepare accordingly. On July 22nd, it was 5 1/2 games apart from Hanwha, but it was overturned in just a month. This is really not easy. It's not like Hanwha fell headlong, it's close to 50%, he was surprised.
LG unfortunately finished the season in third place last year, trailing the momentum of KIA, which sought to win for the second consecutive year, but set the stage for retaking the top again this year. As soon as head coach Yeom took office, he internally said that this year is better than in 2023, when he won the unified championship.
The most stable selection is the biggest. LG's starting ERA is 3.52, ranking second in the league. There is currently no significant difference from Hanwha (3.39), which was considered to have built the strongest starting lineup ever. Yoni Chirinos (10 wins), Lim Chan-kyu (11 wins), and Song Seung-ki (10 wins) have three pitchers with 10 wins, and Son Joo-young (9 wins) is expected to join the ranks of 10 wins soon. Anders Tolhurst, who boldly broke up with Eliaser Hernandez on the 3rd and recruited him as a winning player, raised the mound further with 3 wins, 18 innings and an ERA of 0.50.
Lim Chan-gyu said "This year is better than 2023." All the starters are throwing well, and Tolhurst joined late, but five are going back safely. The selection was not going smoothly in 2023. So I think that's good overall, and I think it's a little bit more solid."
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Until the beginning of this year, the number of bullpens was insufficient, which caused confusion.
Manager Yeom said, `At the beginning of the season, Myung-geun and (Kim) Jin-sung held out with two players. Jin Sung had a huge number of participants. Still, (Lee) Ji-gang held out, Bae Jae-joon held out, and Kim Kang-ryul, who was brought to the FA, held out, and this year, the middle was very chaotic in the beginning. In the second half, Young-chan came in and reliably kept his position for two consecutive years, and the team turned stable. It was also big that (Kim) Young-woo blocked him once in the middle. He said, "I gave Young-woo a chance once because there was no one to use it, but he blocked everything and made one win, one hold, and one save."
The growth of fielders with winning experience is also one of the reasons why the team is running stably. Veteran players such as Kim Hyun-soo, Park Hae-min, Park Dong-won, and Oh Ji-hwan took the center stage even though Hong Chang-ki was away all season due to a major injury, and Moon Bo-kyung, Moon Sung-joo, Shin Min-jae, and Koo Bon-hyuk grew to the next level.
Lim Chan-gyu said, "(Moon) Bo-kyung seems to have grown more than in 2023, and Austin Dean, too. Overall, it has grown a lot. The veterans did their part, and the bullpen is all back now. In the meantime, overall, it got better."
LG boasted that it could maintain its 80% winning rate in the second half until the end. In the process of winning consecutively and winning consecutively, he was confident that there was no overload at all. At this rate, we can expect coach Yeom to renew his contract along with the establishment of the LG Dynasty.
Coach Yeom said, `It's overloaded because the game is all over the line now. However, we are the only fielders, middle pitchers, and starting pitchers that are running normally, and there is no overload at all. I think it's another strength for us to show our strength in the rest of the game."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
