2024-05-03 01:54:50
The Lotte Giants beat the LG Twins 9-2 on the 18th of last month to break their 8-game losing streak. Afterwards, there was an atmosphere of rebound.
They escaped from the bottom with 2 wins and 1 draw against the KT Wiz, and in the 2-game series against SSG Landers, they fell victim to Choi Jeong’s new record for most home runs in the league, but posted 1 win and 1 loss.
In these six games, Lotte recorded a batting average of 0.319, boasting the hottest batting line among the 10 teams. The starting lineup also showed stability with Park Se-woong at the center and achieved harmony in two-hitting.
However, Lotte fell into the swamp of 5 consecutive losses again. They suffered a clean sweep in the ‘Nakdong River Derby’ against NC Dinos from April 26th to 28th, and later bowed their heads in succession against Kiwoom Heroes, who had fallen to 7 consecutive losses.
Lotte is once again showing itself as a ‘team that doesn’t work.’ During the five-game losing streak, the mound was shaken with an ERA (5.57) in the 5-point range, and the batting line, which lacked cohesion, scored only 13 runs.
The off-beat timing was also very severe. In games where the pitchers pitched well, the batters were silent and ended up scoring no runs. When the batting line exploded and a fierce battle unfolded, the mound collapsed.
In the game against Kiwoom on the 1st, which resulted in a 3-6 comeback loss, starting pitcher Park Se-woong pitched 6 scoreless innings, including overcoming the crisis of bases loaded with no outs, but the bullpen in the 7th inning struggled and gave up 5 runs. The batting line also failed to hit a decisive hit, recording 9 extra bases despite hitting 10 hits.
Lotte promised a complete transformation by changing both general manager and coach at the end of last year, but is having its worst season.
Since the opening, they have achieved only 8 wins (1 draw, 22 losses) in 31 games, and are the only one among the 10 clubs to record single-digit wins. In addition, since 2015, when the team became a 10-team system, this was the only season in which Lotte failed to achieve 10 wins within 30 games.
Although they have only played 31 games, they have already experienced 8 straight losses, 5 straight losses, and 4 straight losses. On the other hand, his longest winning streak was three straight wins.
Lotte, which slipped to the bottom of the rankings again amidst total difficulties, was 2.5 games behind KT in 9th place. Lotte’s current situation is daunting, let alone escaping from the bottom, even reaching the 10th win mark.
The slowest 10-win pace in the 10-team system was KT’s 49 games (10 wins and 39 losses), which participated in the KBO League as a new club in 2015. The Samsung Lions (10 wins, 2 draws, 29 losses) in 2017 and the Hanwha Eagles (10 wins, 31 losses) in 2020 played 41 games, the Hanwha (10 wins, 28 losses) played 38 games in 2016, and the NC (10 wins, 25 losses) in 2022. This is followed by 35 games.
These five teams failed to advance to the postseason that season. KT in 2015 and Hanwha in 2020 were unable to overcome their early slump and ended the season in last place.
The outlook for Lotte’s season, which is off to a poor start just like the teams mentioned above, does not look promising.
(Seoul = News 1)
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2024-05-03 01:54:50