Is this your first time seeing a domed stadium? The devil's mouth is wide open...When do you say hello for the first time? There's a lot of tension under the roof of the domed stadium.
Feb 11, 2025
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Lotte moved to Taipei from Tainan, Taiwan, on the 11th and began training to adapt to the stadium.
Taipei Dome is a huge baseball stadium with more than 40,000 visitors. It is the first experience among Lotte players except for some players who have held international competitions here, such as Yoon Dong-hee and Na Seung-yeop.
Lotte's team entered the Taipei Dome with their faces full of expectations. The coaches also had a busy time, talking to the players and checking their condition. There is a lot of tension in the atmosphere of Taipei Dome, which is different from what I thought in Tainan.
Hwang Sung-bin smiled proudly as he looked at the ground, which was well-managed with a huge size. He laughed at the audience by saying, "'Have you never seen the dome before?'
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Coach Kim Tae-hyung's biggest concern is to play the first camp, including two games against Taiwan's WBC (World Baseball Classic) national team, without any injuries. He suffered from frequent injuries to key players last year. As it is the beginning stage of the spring camp preparing for the new season, prevention of injury is the top priority.
Park Se-woong is expected to start in the first round and Kim Jin-wook is expected to start in the second round. It's called a starting lineup, but I'm not going to play many innings.
Still, for Kim Jin-wook, it is a sign that he has established himself as a fourth starter. Kim Jin-wook did not hide his happy feelings when he said "Isn't he likely to start the second round?"
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In addition to Park Se-woong and Kim Jin-wook, key bullpens such as Jung Chul-won, Koo Seung-min, and Kim Won-joong are also preparing to take the mound.
Therefore, foreign pitchers Barnes and Davison and rookie Kim Tae-hyun will be excluded from the series. Choi Jun-yong, Yoo Kang-nam, and Ko Seung-min, who entered the rehabilitation team a week earlier, also decided to remain in Tainan to focus on condition management. It's a shame for Lotte fans who expected Davison's first pitch as a 'new face'.
Taiwan's starting pitcher in the first round is Lu Yong-t'an (Rakuten Monkeys).
Taiwan has yet to join pitchers from U.S. and Japanese clubs who played in the Hangzhou Asian Games and Premier 12, including Lin Yu-min. Instead, five Taiwanese professional baseball (CPBL) pitchers were urgently transfused to prepare for this series. An official from Taiwan explained that `Overseas players are scheduled to join just before the WBC qualifying round.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
