Park Dong-won's bold rush of home...LG is playing baseball again this year
Park Dong-won's bold rush of home...LG is playing baseball again this year
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The LG Twins, who are seeking to regain the top spot for the first time in two years, will show aggressive baserunning this season as well.안전놀이터
LG won 12-2 in the opening match against Lotte in the "2025 KBO League" held at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd.
Chirinos, who started, won their first victory of the season by giving five hits and two runs in six innings, and Moon Bo-kyung and Oh Ji-hwan in the batting lineup helped the team win by tasting home runs.
In the opening game of the day, there was a scene that clearly showed the color of the LG team.
LG led Lotte 11-2 in the bottom of the eighth inning with one out and runners on the first and third bases. Choi Won-young's powerful swing to the batter's box ended up hitting a fly ball to the right field. As the hit ball was rather short, the next batter should come to the batter's box without any specific situation.
However, Park Dong-won, the third baseman, rushed home, and Lotte's defense team, which failed to prepare for this, donated the lost point. The gap was so wide that it was difficult for the Lotte fielders to predict the rush to the home ground.
Park's aggressive baserunning not only helped his team score but also Choi, a batter, as well. His first at-bat in this season was treated as a sacrifice fly rather than a fly ball to the right fielder, which helped him manage his batting average. On top of that, an RBI single was a bonus.
Since Yeom Kyung-yeop took office in 2023, LG has transformed into a team that shows very aggressive base running. Runners are running to go one more base and are active in stealing regardless of the situation.
In baseball, as a player who goes up to the second base is placed in the scoring position immediately, aggressive baserunning has huge impact on team scoring. However, if a player encounters a team with good defense or a runner does not have a good sense of baserunning, this often boomerang. It is widely believed that if a runner plays a baserunning role, it would do more harm than good as it would dampen team mood.
In the 2023 season, LG ranked No. 1 in stolen bases (166). Behind the scenes, however, was the lowest success rate (62.2 percent). It was an inefficient base run given that Kiwoom, which was ranked first in this category, recorded 83.1 percent and all eight other teams recorded 70 percent success rate.
LG also ranked second after Doosan in stolen bases last season, and ranked ninth with a success rate of 68.4 percent. Jurusa is also at the bottom of the list for the second consecutive year. Nevertheless, manager Yeom Kyung-yeop has constantly been demanding "one more base" from his players since taking the helm of LG.
LG is expected to advocate baseball that plays this season as well, as Oh Ji-hwan added one stolen base in the opening game and Park Dong-won's rush to the home. It is expected that the base running play, which has been focused on "inefficiency" for the past two years, will be a point to watch for LG to see if it will produce more efficient results this year, which is in its third year.