KIA left-handed line destructive power is different from LG...Who will stop Seung-Hyun's return to the left wing?
Oct 21, 2024
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He led in overall batting figures excluding home runs and stolen bases, including team batting average, scoring, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and scoring-right batting average.
Kim Do-young is the representative face that symbolizes the hard line, but what is really scary is the left-handed line.
Power and clutch ability are formidable. Na Sung-beom, Choi Hyung-woo, and Socrates, who can change the direction of the economy at once, are holding out. Choi Won-joon, Han Jun-su and Seo Geon-chang are also tough hitters.
Na Sung-beom, Choi Hyung-woo, and Socrates, who will be placed at the center, are all solvers with more than 20 home runs and around 100 RBIs. He combined for 69 homers and 286 RBIs during the regular season. Choi Won-joon, Han Jun-su, and Seo Geon-chang torment opposing pitchers with a batting average of around 300. In particular, Han Jun-su and Choi Won-jun are burdensome to enter easily with long-shot power.
The Samsung Lions bullpen management concerns start here.
Samsung's bullpen does not have a strong left-hander to overpower the opponent at a critical moment. Lee Sang-min, Choi Chae-heung, and Lee Seung-min are all three players.
Samsung manager Park Jin-man, who played a playoff against the LG Twins, turned left-hander Lee Seung-hyun, who was named the starting pitcher for Game 3, to the bullpen to put out the urgent fire. Fortunately, LG's proud left-handed line failed to use much power in the series due to fatigue after the semi-playoff blood clots.
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Left Seung-hyun, who still threw the strongest ball during the playoffs, returned to the original team as a starter.
Director Park Jin-man said, `The Korean Series is a best-of-seven series, so we need four starters"I will use Won Tae-in Reyes and Lee Seung-hyun and Hwang Dong-jae as starters, he professed."
Even left-handed Seung-hyun was absent from the bullpen in front of the KIA left-handed batting line that can change the flow of the game.
However, it is also burdensome to put right-handers in the must-win group in front of the left-handed batting line.
Lim Chang-min was weak against the KIA lineup with two home runs (0.400) and 14 hits in 40 times at bat. He was particularly weak against Choi Hyung-woo (2 hits in 3 at-bats), Na Sung-bum (2 hits in 3 at-bats, 1 home run) and Socrates (2 hits in 3 at-bats).
Closer Kim Jae-yoon was also ineffective in the left-handed batting line due to Choi Hyung-woo (1 hit and 1 home run in 2 times at bat), Han Jun-su (1 hit and 1 home run in 2 times at bat), Choi Won-joon (3 hits in 5 times at bat) and Na Sung-beom (1 hit in 2 times at bat).
Both pitchers Lim Chang-min and Kim Jae-yoon had higher hit rates for left-handed hitters in the regular season than right-handed hitters.
Lim Chang-min was 0.316, against left-handed hitters and 0.238, against right-handed hitters. Kim Jae-yoon also has a left-handed batter opponent of 0.260 and a right-handed batter opponent of 0.202.
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Lee Sang-min did not look strong against KIA this season with six hits in 19 at-bats (0.316) with two home runs. He has a painful memory for Choi Won-joon (2 hits, 1 home run) and Choi Hyung-woo (1 hit, 1 home run), but he played an effective game against Socrates (four hits, no hits, three hits, and Seo Geon-chang (two hits).
hschung@sportschosun.com
