At the most important time at the end of the season, Doosan is losing its strength. It has been in the fourth place for more than a month, and now even its position is in jeopardy. Even the batting lineup is in a slump amid the mound cracks.토토사이트
Doosan is a team that stands out for its central batting lineup. There are many strikeouts, but it has made up for its weaknesses with the power of home runs. Until the 3rd, Yang Seok-hwan hit 29 home runs and Kim Jae-hwan hit 25 home runs. Kang Seung-ho and Yang Eui-ji also helped the team’s firepower by hitting 16 and 15 home runs, respectively.
Doosan rarely hits such long balls. It has eight homers in a team in recent 10 games, the third since its debut in the same period. Amid strong batting and pitching winds that continued through the end of the season, Samsung more than doubled to 18 homers. The three teams of KT, Lotte, and NC also hit 16 homers each. Home runs, which are their strength, have disappeared, and contact, which was not very good originally, has gotten worse. The team’s batting average of 0.209 in 10 games is the lowest during the same period. It has 88 strikeouts, the largest number after Lotte (98).
The Doosan Bears’ bat remained silent at the match against Hanwha in Daejeon on Sunday. Even against Moon Dong-ju, who had hit long balls whenever they met before the game, he failed to yield a clue to hit the ball. Moon only had four hits and one run through the sixth inning when he was on the mound. He only had one hit during three innings against the Hanwha bullpen, which started in the seventh inning. Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop said before the game that he should consider going out even if he gets hit, worrying about slumping batting lineup, but he only got on base seven times including hits and walks.
Bad hitters such as Yang Eui-ji, Yang Seok-hwan, and Huh Kyung-min are in a slump. Jared Young, a foreign hitter who has been playing a vital role for Doosan’s batting lineup by swinging hard hits since joining the team, is not the same as before. He has hit three home runs in the last 10 games, but only has a batting average of 0.216 and an on-base percentage of 0.326.
With the loss, Doosan lost four games in a row. While the rival teams of KT and Hanwha have posted seven wins and three losses and six wins and four losses, respectively, in their recent 10 games, they ended up with only three wins and seven losses. They have been tied to the fourth place for 34 days since April 1. The gap with top teams has become so far apart that it is not easy to catch up, and the teams that are hitting from below are rather worrisome. They are only 0.5 games behind fifth-ranked KT and 2.5 games behind sixth-ranked Hanwha.
Doosan had never experienced a rainy season this season. It played 130 games, the most among the 10 teams, through Sunday. Due to the scandal over substitute prescription for sleeping pills from Oh Jae-won, the team’s main players had physical burden due to lack of players who can be used as backup players. Still, many of the main fielders were in their mid-30s, which must have put more pressure on them. It is hard to say that it has something to do with the recent slump in hitting.
With the loss against Hanwha, Doosan lost its “magic number” to the semifinals. As of Thursday, Doosan had 14 more games to play with, including 64 wins, 2 draws and 64 losses in 130 games, while sixth-ranked Hanwha had 21 more games to play with, including, 58 wins, 2 draws and 63 losses in 123 games. It is an extreme assumption, but even if Doosan wins all the remaining games, if Hanwha wins all the remaining games, it will fall behind in the winning rate.