Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left

Sep 04, 2025

Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left
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Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left
9회말 1사 만루. When Jang Jin-hyuk hit an infield ground ball, Park Chan-hyung threw home, but the ball fell out and a finishing error came out.
It's the first time to taste the air outside the semifinals since April 10, the beginning of the season. Fans are burning inside.

With only 15 games left in the regular season, the Lotte Giants fell to sixth place. Literally, the fire fell on the top of my foot.

On the day when the frustrating lineup bursts a little, the mound that I believed in this time is shaken. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung has always emphasized that a team that does not have a good batting balance is a strong team even when he was a commentator.




When the flow of pitching and hitting is not right, one side has no choice but to give strength. The mound must somehow protect the victory on the day the hit is well played, or the batting line must explode and win on the day the mound is shaken. But Lotte is not doing well on both sides.

In the match against Suwon KT Wiz on the 3rd, the pitchers they trusted were shaken all at once. Ace Gamboa clearly showed signs of exhaustion, scoring four runs in five ⅓ innings, while Choi Joon-yong and Yoon Sung-bin also gave up two runs each, revealing their shaking appearance. In particular, it is not to mention the poor performance of Choi Jun-yong, a must-win group who was put in early, but it is even more regrettable that Yoon Sung-bin allowed two home runs while carrying the burden of multi-inning. Yoon Sung-bin's greatest strength as a pitcher who can strike out without fear of a home run in a crisis based on his fastball has been diluted.

Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left
Lotte Yoon Sung-bin is coming down. Busan = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.8.28/
The end of the game was Park Chan-hyung's home pitch, but it is hard to blame him. It was an even more painful mistake in that it was a mistake made in a force-out situation without tags as well as the season situation.




However, Park Chan-hyung is a player who originally focused on hitting rather than defending. He is a former independent leaguer and just entered the professional league, so he has weaknesses in basic skills and has shown that he is not discouraged by the clutch in batting, but he is bound to be shaken by pressure in defense.

If there is a problem, Park Chan-hyung was forced to stand on third base in a clutch situation. Last year, Lotte's main third baseman was Son Ho-young. With 18 home runs and 300,000 sophistication, he did not even show weaknesses in defense such as throwing. Lotte's infield seemed to have hardened into Na Seung-yeop, Ko Seung-min, Park Seung-wook and Son Ho-young.

None of these set infields are currently running properly. Na Seung-yeop has been out of first base for a while due to injury and sluggishness, and Ko Seung-min is busy tinkering with first base (244 ⅔ innings), right field (139 ⅓ innings) and left field (10 innings) in addition to second base (414 ⅔ innings). Son Ho-young, who has lost his batting advantage, has already played more second baseman (90 innings) and his use of players is getting more twisted as Han Tae-yang stands out.




Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left
Lotte and Samsung held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 17th. One out and one base in the bottom of the fourth inning. Son Ho-young was forced out after failing to return to first base when hitting Reyes' outfield fly. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.17/
Veteran Kim Min-sung played many innings (345 ⅓ innings) after Son Ho-young as a third baseman in the team, but he is disappointed to use it as a main player. It is Park Chan-hyung who dug into the gap. He has already played 159 ⅓ innings.

However, Park Chan-hyung is also closer to second base resources than third base. In the end, the second base was tangled with the participation of the late Seungmin, Son Ho-young, Han Tae-yang, and Park Chan-hyung, while the third base held out this year by turning without a suitable player. The gap in the third base, which has not been resolved throughout the year, seems to have eventually hampered it at the end of the season. From Park Chan-hyung's point of view, the task remains whether he can shake off this nightmare memory without leaving trauma.

Ending badgu → Falling to 6th place in 147 days How can I blame a 23-year-old hit product...The problem is that the weaknesses that have not been solved until 15G is left
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 2nd. Lotte Park Chan-hyung is defending. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.02/
Due to the nature of the remaining games, most of the remaining 15 games will be a real battle of ace showdowns. Will Lotte, where even Gamboa is shaken, succeed in the fall baseball. Even if he lost 12 consecutive games, he did not cross the psychological Maginot line while keeping a winning rate of 50%, and the fall below the 5th place may have been another Maginot line. The key is for veterans, including head coach Kim Tae-hyung and Jeon Joon-woo and Kim Min-sung, to set the tone.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.