There is no 'one' Hanwha batter in the 'weekly batting average top 25'... NC and Lotte will meet in 1st and 2nd place in May
There is no 'one' Hanwha batter in the 'weekly batting average top 25'... NC and Lotte will meet in 1st and 2nd place in May
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Hanwha Eagles, whose upward trend has been dampened by 1 win and 5 losses after a historic 12 consecutive wins, faced its first crisis.메이저놀이터
Hanwha had a dreamlike 16 days from the match against KT Wiz in Daejeon on the 26th of last month to the match against Gocheok Kiwoom Heroes on the 11th. With full spectators with them, regardless of home and away, Hanwha has won 12 consecutive games in 33 years and 10,041 days since the Samsung Lions match on May 12, 1992 and the Ssangbangwool Raiders match on May 23, 1992.
However, the team started to falter as it lost 3-4 in overtime at the game against the Doosan Bears in Daejeon on Wednesday. Excluding ace Cody Ponce, the starting lineup that I trusted has also started to have difficulty starting quality games (more than six innings as starters and less than three earned runs). The team dropped out of the top spot due to loss on Wednesday, and tied the Lotte Giants for second place last weekend through a losing series against SSG Landers.
With Ponce, Ryan Weiss, Ryu Hyun-jin, Moon Dong-ju, and Um Sang-baek, the starters, who are considered to have the strongest five starters this season, suffered a lot of back-to-back wins last week with an ERA of 4.97 (7th in the league). Um Sang-baek was eventually removed from the first-team entry and had time to reorganize, and Weiss and Ryu Hyun-jin, who believed, also failed to fill six innings.
Poor batting is one of the reasons the team's upward trajectory has been dampened. Hardly a burst of batters put more pressure on the mound. During the winning streak, Hanwha tended to take the first point and somehow secure a small number of runs thanks to stable pitching by starting pitchers and strong pitching by relief pitchers.
However, Hanwha's batting average was seventh (0.239), ninth in homers (three), and ninth in on-base plus slugging percentage (0.616) in OPS last week, suffering severe pain. A case in point was that last week's weekly batting top 25 and no Hanwha batter was found. Hanwha and Kiwoom are the only two teams that have not made a single name in the top 25. Usually, there is one or two players in a small sample of six games, but only Moon Hyun-bin with a batting average of 0.280 (7 hits in 25 times at bat) and Hwang Young-mook with a batting average of 0.278 (5 hits in 18 times at bat) were listed respectively as 28th and 29th in the KBO.
With Hanwha's batting cycle hitting a low point, it is worrisome that the two teams that will meet this week are showing strong batting performance. The Hanwha Eagles will play three consecutive games of the NC Dinos on weekdays for Ulsan. In May, NC has the No. 1 winning percentage (10 wins, one draw and four losses, 0.714) due to overwhelming team batting performance. The team's ERA in May was 3.07, similar to that of Hanwha with a 2.98 ERA, while the team's batting average was first (0.277) and OPS (0.807).
Lotte is facing an even more serious situation after returning to Daejeon on the weekend. Lotte, whose team ranks second in batting average of 0.274 in May, has been especially strong in scoring position, ranking second in the league. If it is firepower, it scored 21 points in three consecutive games against the Samsung Lions, who are competing for the first and second place in the league, and successfully swept the game, sparking excitement.
As such, the importance of the first game has become even higher. Fortunately, Hanwha has the upper hand in the starting pitcher matchup. "160km fireballer" Moon Dong-ju will take the lead. Moon Dong-ju marked 4 wins and 2 losses with a 3.32 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 40 ⅔ innings in eight games this year. He has slowed down by allowing 5 runs in 11 innings in the last two games, but still few pitchers are that good.
Hanwha's batting lineup is aiming to turn the mood around against Mok Ji-hoon (21), the "Meet Boy" who recently won two consecutive starts. Mok Ji-hoon, who is in his third year since debut, has recorded two wins and one loss with a 5.66 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 20 ⅔ innings in five games, but he has become a leading player in NC's upward trend by winning two games with one run in five innings in each of the last two games.