"This year is no different." Three mistakes + foils + wild pitches, "self-destruction"... "Lost by 10 points in the opening game." Lotte, where is the effect of the camp to strengthen defense
"This year is no different." Three mistakes + foils + wild pitches, "self-destruction"... "Lost by 10 points in the opening game." Lotte, where is the effect of the camp to strengthen defense
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Lotte Giants have shown everything they can show from the opening game of the 2025 season. It disappointed fans by playing a "total crisis" game, not a positive one.
Lotte suffered a crushing defeat against the LG Twins 2-12 at the opening game of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on Sunday. It was the biggest loss of the five games held on the day.메이저사이트
Charlie Barnes, the starting pitcher, collapsed by allowing eight hits (one homer) and three outs (two walks), striking out two, and allowing seven runs during three innings. The collapse of the "Ace" was painful, but the biggest problem was that the time bomb, which was chronic instability in defense, exploded from the first game. On the day, Lotte Giants recorded three errors, and threw wild pitches.
In the bottom of the first inning, Barnes had two consecutive doubles by Kim Hyun-soo and Austin Dean, and gave up the score first. Then, Moon allowed a two-run shot, making the score 0-3. Barnes, who had a hit to the left by Oh Ji-hwan, allowed Song Chan-ui to strike out, but Yoo Kang-nam, who was trying to steal the bases, committed a throwing error and rushed to the third base with two outs. Barnes handled Park Dong-won with a fly ball to the right field to end the first inning with difficulty.
Barnes, who faced a crisis with one out and runners on the second and third bases in the third inning due to Moon Bo-kyung's left-handed hit, Oh Ji-hwan's bunt hit, and Song Chan-ui's sacrifice bunt, loaded the bases with walks. He allowed Park Hae-min to strike out after a full count match, but gave up a walk to Koo Bon-hyuk, making the score 4-0. Barnes, who caught the 1-2 advantage against Hong Chang-ki, dedicated one run as the slider he threw outside the fourth pitch became a wild pitch that missed the mark. After being shaken up, Barnes finally gave up a two-run double to Hong Chang-ki and completely collapsed with seven runs.
In the top of the fourth inning, Lotte had a bases-loaded chance with Victor Reyes' double and Yoon Dong-hee and Jeon Jun-woo's walk after one out. Son Ho-young, who was sluggish with a batting average of 0.091 in the exhibition game, broke LG starter Yoni Chirinos' scoreless streak with a two-run timely hit, and Yoo Kang-nam continued his one-out bases-loaded chance with a hit. However, the gap did not narrow as Park Seung-wook struck out after three pitches and Hwang Sung-bin threw a catcher's foul fly ball after one pitch.
Lotte lost the chance to catch up and gave up on its own. In the bottom of the fourth inning, with one out, first baseman Na Seung-yeop failed to catch a grounder when Moon Bo-kyung grounded out, and allowed him to get on base due to an error. In Oh Ji-hwan's at-bat, catcher Yoo Kang-nam's foil was shown, causing a crisis of scoring rights with one out and runners on the second base. In the end, the two mistakes resulted in lost points. With Song Chan's double, second baseman Moon Bo-kyung leisurely made home runs.
Lotte's defense was shaky again in the bottom of the fifth inning. With runners on the first and second bases with one out, Song Jae-young induced Kim Hyun-soo to ground out to the second base. The course was designed to be a double play. However, while Ko Seung-min was tossing the ball, he threw the ball so high that he couldn't catch it even if Park jumped, and while the runner on the second base made it to the home ground. The score was 2-9, which was effectively a tilting moment.
Lotte was shaken by four hits and three runs, including a home run given by Kim Sang-soo, who took the mound in the eighth inning, to Oh Ji-hwan, widening the gap to 10 points. In the last attack in the bottom of the ninth inning, Son Ho-young tried to save a ray of hope with an infield hit, but Information Geun poured cold water with a double play of a grounder to shortstop. The last batter, Han Tae-yang, also grounded out to shortstop, and Lotte suffered a humiliating loss by 10 points in the opening game.
Lotte, which ranked second (123) in team errors after the KIA Tigers (146) last year, played the closing camp after the end of the 2024 season under the name of "defense reinforcement camp."
The effect of intensive defense training has yet to emerge. Lotte made nine mistakes in eight exhibition games, revealing its anxiety. In the end, chronic defense problems resulted in poor performance of "self-destruction" from the opening game.