'Shock effect disappeared' Spend billions of won and replacement cards will disappear, falling to 7th place
Jul 28, 2024
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The Doosan Bears are in a crisis. Doosan, which has been competing for second place until recently after overcoming the crisis in the early stages of the opening, is currently in a close fourth place.
Missed two important games. Doosan started the weekend's away series against SSG Landers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon by giving up two games first. In the game on the 26th, the first day of the series, he failed to attack opposing starting pitcher Drew Anderson and gave up only one run, and the pitchers lost 1-6 as they failed to overcome an important crisis. In the game on the 27th, I also felt a pain in the back. Doosan blocked starter Choi Won-joon well in six innings with one run, but the bullpen collapsed after that. After Kim Kang-ryul and Lee Byung-hun, who came up in the seventh inning, sent out the runners, Hong Gun-hee sent in the responsible runners for a timely come-from-behind hit, and suffered a 3-4 upset loss.
Doosan, which recorded 51 wins, two draws and 49 losses as of the 27th, is being chased by teams tied for fifth place. KT Wiz-SSG-NC Dinos are tied for fifth place with a winning percentage of 50 percent, pressing Doosan, which is in fourth place, by one game. The mid-range fight is getting worse, so once you slip, there is a risk that any team will fall to seventh place. If you ride a winning streak, you can see up to third place at once, but if you fall behind here, you can lose your grip, so there is a competition for suffocation.
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Kwak Bin and Choi Won-joon are holding out, but their thirst for a strong starting pitcher is still not completely resolved. In particular, even the young bullpen, who endured well in the first half of the year, has clearly lost strength since Choi Ji-gang's injury, so the mound is worried.
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The deadline for the replacement was approaching anyway, so there is no meaning in exhaustion itself, but even the moving of the coaching staff and the drastic replacement of foreign players. Doosan is struggling to bring back the team's atmosphere somehow by mobilizing all available shock therapy.
Hope is still alive. The fierce ranking fight means that Doosan also has a chance to fight as much as possible. If Brandon returns soon after the contract period with Shirakawa ends, and Balazovic also settles down a little more in the KBO League, the bullpen overload will be reduced, and the batting lineup, centered on veterans in their 30s, will also ease the burden of offense and defense. It is time for coach Lee Seung-yeop's strong baseball to gain strength once again.
youll@sportschosun.com
