Now, Lotte plays strategic baseball and running baseball. It is no longer a loosely structured team. Baseball, which can run and run, focus more on strategies and give variations, has begun to take root.
Lotte won 8-1 against Hanwha in Sajik on the 26th. Lotte ran Pajuk’s 5-game winning streak and tied for 3rd place with Doosan with 11 wins and 8 losses.
In the meantime, Lotte baseball was a line and thick baseball. It was represented by long-hit baseball. If the batting was not active, the scoring route itself was not smooth. Due to the composition of the team, there were not many players who could perform operations and were quick on their feet. It wasn’t easy to score a squeeze following the so-called tactical baseball. This type of baseball has become the team color of the Lotte batting line.
However, Lotte started reforming gradually. I tried to include players with good athletic ability in the lineup. I tried to give opportunities to players who are quick and quick and have high baseball intelligence. While selecting new players and looking for trade targets, these standards were always set. As the atmosphere changed, the team color gradually began to change. Unlike his resume, coach Larry Sutton, who was a home run king in the KBO league, focused on baseball, tactical baseball, and running baseball, which emphasized his athletic ability.
That’s how the 5-game winning streak is. When the bench intervened and had to carry out a strategy without missing the opponent’s mistakes, he clearly intervened and moved the players. In the game on the 26th, the bench clearly intervened in the first half of the offense and defense, and led the team to victory. In this process, Jeon Jun-woo, the 37-year-old oldest, is also participating.
In the 3rd inning when the score was tied 1-1, Lotte got on base with a walk after a run. However, as Rex struck out, he became 2 out and 1 base. A situation in which the probability of scoring is extremely low. At this time, the bench and base coach Kim Pyung-ho started working to make one point. Ko Seung-min succeeded in stealing second base and created a scoring situation, and Jeon Jun-woo hit a timely hit in the middle left to take a 2-1 lead. Lotte led the atmosphere in the beginning with the strategy.
After that, the operation continued. After one out in the 6th inning, An Chi-Hong created an opportunity by hitting a lucky triple. And Noh Jin-hyeok, who was at bat, disturbed the opposing defense by attempting a squeeze bunt strategy. In the end, he squeezed a 3-1 running score with a grounder from first base.
The 7th episode, which put a wedge in the game, is also the same. Ahn Kwon-soo took a send-off bunt posture at first base without a hit, then suddenly changed to a slash, leading to a chance for a safe first and second base. Hwang Seong-bin, the follow-up, went back and forth between bunt and slash, but withdrew with a ground ball to the second baseman, but created a chance for 1st and 3rd base. And he overcame numerous checks from lefty Kim Beom-soo on the Hanwha mound and succeeded in stealing second base, completing the second and third base opportunities. In the end, as Jack Rex’s two RBIs hit the right time, it became the key point for Lotte’s 5th consecutive win.
The strategy and the appearance of running baseball are completely different from Lotte Baseball in the past. As the composition of the team has changed, the aspects of the players who can perform bench operations have clearly changed. Lotte’s team color has definitely changed to the extent that Jeon Jun-woo, the oldest player, can join in the running baseball. Jeon Jun-woo, who is like a living witness of Lotte, said, “I try to run a lot myself.” It seems,” he explained.
Ahn Kwon-su, Hwang Seong-bin, Ko Seung-min, Park Seung-wook, Lee Hak-joo, and Yoon Dong-hee are players who can play baseball with certainty while playing in the first team. Here, the original ‘5-tool player’ Jeon Jun-woo is also the best, but he is burning his fighting spirit. Even when he is a runner on first base, he is active in running base play to the extent that he attempts to tag up second base from time to time. He said, “It’s the original play. I’m thinking a lot about stealing this year. I think I’ll do a lot of tactical baseball like this.” 스포츠토토
Lotte Baseball has changed. Even veteran coaches such as Kim Pyeong-ho and Jeon Jun-ho, who can play baseball like Sutton and the club’s philosophy, are in sync. Lotte Baseball’s tediousness is definitely different from before.