Professional baseball, which opens on April 1 and plays a total of 720 games with 144 games per team, is fluctuating in the rankings as it enters the middle from the early ‘3 out of 3’ structure.
This week’s professional baseball will be held during the week (13th-15th) Samsung-LG (Jamsil), KIA-Kiwoom (Gocheok), kt-SSG (Incheon), Hanwha-Lotte (Busan), and Doosan-NC (Changwon) matches.
On the weekend (16-18), Doosan-LG (Jamsil), Lotte-SSG (Incheon), Samsung-kt (Suwon), Kiwoom-Hanwha (Daejeon), and NC-KIA (Gwangju) clash.
The protagonists of the ranking change are the ‘Nakdong River rivals’ NC Dinos and Lotte Giants.
In June, the report cards of the two teams are sharply divided.
NC defeated SSG Landers 8-4 on the 11th and moved up to 3rd place with a 5-game winning streak. In addition, for the first time in the season, the leading SSG suffered a sweeping defeat in three consecutive matches.
On the other hand, SSG, LG Twins, and Lotte, which formed the top 3 at the beginning of the season, gave up 3rd place to NC and fell out of the top 3 after 47 days. The ride between the two teams is 0.5 games.
NC has emerged as a team that will threaten SSG and LG Yanggang, drawing a steep upward curve of 8 wins and 1 loss this month despite the injury of left-handed starting pitcher Chang-mo Koo.
It is 2 games behind 2nd place LG, and SSG is also 3.5 games away from pursuit.
Lotte, who stayed at 1 win and 5 losses last week, including losing all three matches against kt wiz, fell to the bottom of the monthly win rate (3 wins and 7 losses) in June.
NC invites the Doosan Bears, who were competing for 4th place this week, to their home in Changwon to fight. Lotte challenges the lowest-ranking Hanwha Eagles to recover their energy in the home room.
NC’s greatest strength is its solid mound.
Lee Jae-hak, who joined the starting lineup in late May, achieved 4 consecutive quality starts (pitching with 3 earned runs or less in 6 or more starting innings) and energized the team by adding 2 wins this month.
The pace of Eric Peddy, who tied the record for 10 wins in the KBO League’s history (12 games), is also unshakable. Three pitchers, including Choi Seong-young, an all-weather pitcher who does not care about starting pitchers and bullpens, earned two wins each in June.
NC runs the 1st place in team ERA (3.19) for the season, and in June, it overwhelms the mounds of 9 clubs with an amazing figure of 2.25. The average ERA of NC Guo Gu-jin in June was 0.76, which is more than 3 points lower than the league average (4.12) during this period.
NC is closely inferior to Doosan with 2 wins and 3 losses and 1 win and 2 losses against its weekend opponent, the KIA Tigers. It’s the right time to make up for the losses suffered by two teams this week on the rise.
Lotte will land in Incheon after 3 consecutive matches with Hanwha, which leads with 4 wins and 1 loss, and will have its third ‘distribution match’ of the season with SSG on the weekend.
In the first match in April, it rained twice, so SSG ended with 1 win, and in the second match in Busan in May, SSG took the lead with 2 wins and 1 loss.
SSG, which is trying to keep the lead, and Lotte, which is trying to rebound and try to re-enter the top 3, are all three consecutive matches that cannot be conceded, so Incheon’s cheering fever is expected to heat up.
2nd place LG will try to regain first place in 6 consecutive home matches against Samsung Lions and Doosan, and Kiwoom Heroes will also attempt to enter the middle ranks with the resurrected Lee Jung-hoo at the fore.
The achievement of the great record also entered the countdown.
KIA veteran hitter Hyung-Woo Choi, with 6 RBIs this week, surpasses Doosan coach Seung-Yeop Lee (1,498 RBIs) and ranks first in RBIs.
Choi Hyung-woo overtook manager Lee Seung-yeop (464) in career doubles last April and increased his record to 476 after rising to first place in this category.메이저놀이터
If Choi Hyung-woo adds 30 bases, he is tied shoulder to shoulder with Yang Jun-hyeok (3,879 bases) for the second place in career most bases.
Hanwha veteran bullpen pitcher Jung Woo-ram, who pitched in 24 games this year, will achieve the feat of appearing in 1,000 games for the first time as a pitcher if he climbs the 24th mound further.