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| A game between the Doosan Bears and the NC Dinos at Jamsil Stadium on the 14th. Coach Lee Ho-joon is lost in thought. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.14/ |
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| The NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Park Min-woo, with one out and runners on the first and third bases, is welcomed after scoring a double steal in the top of the first inning. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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| The NC-Hanwha match at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. In the bottom of the 10th inning, Park Min-woo dropped the ball in the throwing motion after catching it when Noh Si-hwan made a fly to the second base with one out and runners on the first and third bases. Park Min-woo, who saw the third baseman home-in, is disappointed. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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The last-minute ranking battle is tough even for experienced coaches. How much stress will be put on a novice coach. In addition, the remaining schedule is full of six games a week, and the number of injuries is increasing one after another. Indeed, there is no such thing as a mountain to climb.
NC Dinos manager Lee Ho-joon, who was always interviewed with a bright face, was not very bright ahead of the Jamsil LG Twins match on the 12th. Even while joking in the middle, all he revealed were bad news.
On this day, NC's main second baseman Park Min-woo was canceled from the first division. The sudden cancellation of the first team was quite shocking because he played until the end without changing his starting position as a 3-2 hitter in the Gocheok Kiwoom Heroes match held the previous day. Considering that no player has been called up instead of Park, it means that Park Min-woo's cancellation was suddenly decided. Seo Ho-cheol was listed in the lineup as second baseman.
Director Lee said, `Minwoo has a bad back. Yesterday (11th), I said I would try to endure it, but it seems that it doesn't rotate. "It hurts every time I turn it, so I don't think I should do it myself." How much I must have thought and said..." he lamented.
In the meantime, "I decided to take it out as soon as possible because there could be another chance to win in 10 days."Manager Lee could not hide his regret by saying, `The third batter was missing the last pitcher.'
NC's closing pitcher Ryu Jin-wook, who had 29 saves, was excluded from the first team on the 10th. Another problem at a time when bone fragments in the elbow sometimes cause pain. In addition, Park Min-woo, who has the highest batting average in the team, is also out, creating a big hole in the batting.
Park Min-woo was batting .302 with 112 hits, three home runs, 67 RBIs and 64 runs in 116 games. In particular, he was the best hitter in chances, recording the highest batting average among all hitters who filled the regular at-bats with 432 (48 hits in 111 at-bats) in scoring position. For NC, it is a big blow.
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| Ryu Jin-wook, who took the mound at the NC-Doosan match at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 12th, pitches at the bottom of the eighth inning with one out and one on the first base. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.12/ |
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| The NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 1st. Choi Jung-won, who scored on Davison's hit with one out and runners on the second and third bases in the top of the first inning, is welcome. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.1/ |
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| Coach Lee Ho-joon of NC greets the Hanwha team at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Daejeon = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.09.03/ |
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As of the 12th, NC ranks seventh with 59 wins, 6 draws and 63 losses and a winning rate of 484. He is 2.5 games behind fifth-ranked Samsung (65 wins, two draws and 64 losses). It has the most games left in 128, with 16 remaining. In a situation where they have to play six consecutive games a week and have a physically difficult schedule, the main players' injury departure is making the fight for the best five more difficult.
As this happens, it is regrettable that Choi Jung-won, who is only playing as a logistical guard, should be injured earlier. Choi Jung-won suffered a microfracture of the left palm of his head when he fell during a run against the Changwon Lotte Giants on August 23. Although hitting is impossible, he is playing in the first team because he can run and defend.
Manager Lee said, "(Choi) Jung-won can think that this season is over. It didn't stick to the bone at all, and it's actually right to remove it from the entry, but I'm keeping it because it's a logarithmic ratio with the runner"The most unfortunate part is that Jung-won watches a lot of balls and shakes them when he gets on base, so he played well when the opponent's ace came out. It would be nice to come out at a time like this, but that's a shame."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
