3 hits in the final game, Lee Jung-hoo, and the season ended without laughing...Team is out for the fourth year in a row
Sep 29, 2025
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Lee Jung-hoo started as the sixth batter and center fielder in the final regular season game against the Colorado Rockies at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California on the 29th (Korea time) and hit hard with three hits and two RBIs in four at-bats.
Lee Jung-hoo had a left-handed hit in his first at-bat with one out in the bottom of the second inning, and his second at-bat was caught on a fly to right field. However, he entered the batter's box for the third time as the leadoff hitter in the bottom of the seventh inning and recorded a hit to the right, and then hit a timely two-run hit in the last at-bat in the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs and runners on the second and third bases. Lee Jung-hoo showed a three-hit batting show in front of home fans in the last game of the regular season.
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Lee Jung-hoo finished his second season with a batting average of 266 (149 hits in 560 at-bats) with eight home runs, 55 RBIs, and 10 steals with an OPS of 0.734 while playing full time. Lee Jung-hoo, who signed with San Francisco through the posting system ahead of the 2024 season, was unlucky to be out of the season due to a shoulder injury while playing 37 games at the beginning of the season. After returning healthy this year after a long rehabilitation, he received a lot of attention as the team's leadoff and key hitter, but there were some ups and downs in hitting.
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However, it is a season that remains regretful in many ways for Lee Jung-hoo. It was difficult to say that the team and the individual performance were coldly satisfactory. In particular, San Francisco, which has weak power, tried to rebound through external recruitment with Lee Jung-hoo as its main focus this year, but this also failed due to a lack of hindsight at the last minute and the plan went wrong.
The team's poor performance came back with an arrow to Lee Jung-hoo. In the U.S., local media criticized Lee Jung-hoo, a high-paid player in the team, several times, and in the match against Colorado on the 27th, when Lee Jung-hoo was confirmed to be eliminated from the postseason, he mistook the outcount during the outfield defense and threw the ball into the stands before the inning ended, and then gave the opponent the automatic right to advance. A more sobering standard is bound to be applied to him, who is on the side of receiving a large salary in the team.
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Meanwhile, Atlanta Braves Kim Ha-sung and LA Dodgers Kim Hye-sung also finished all regular season games. While Atlanta also failed to advance to the postseason, Kim Ha-sung brightened the outlook with a batting average of 262 (22 hits in 84 at-bats) and three homers and 12 RBIs and a stable shortstop defense after moving to Atlanta at the end of August.
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Kim Hye-sung, a Dodgers member, also finished his first big league season well. As his team, the Dodgers, won the National League West, Kim Hye-sung, who experienced a champagne party with teammates for the first time, had a batting average of 280 (45 hits in 161 at-bats), three home runs, 17 RBIs, and 13 steals.
As the Dodgers have the strongest power in the league, Kim Hye-sung, who is not given many opportunities to play, is more likely to experience the Major League postseason before Lee Jung-hoo. Although the final list has not yet been confirmed, it is evaluated that the first season was completed without difficulty by making good use of the big league call-up opportunity compared to the opening in Triple-A.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
