lg regained its second place with all of its Doubleheader with SK.
The lg Twins, led by Ryu Joong-il, won 2-1 in the first leg and 4-3 in the second leg at Doubleheader Home Kyonggi against the 2020 Shinhan Bank SOL KBOUEFA Champions League SK Wyverns at Seoul Jamsil-dong Baseball park on the 11th. lg, which made the burden of Doubleheader due to rain delay the previous day, jumped to second place with the Doosan Bears, which lost 5-7 to NC Dynos on the day.
Doubleheader Kyonggi, who has to play two Kyonggi in Haru, is very important in Game 1 because the flow of Game 1 often connects to Game 2. SK coach Yeom Kyung-yeop put forward Foreign Pitcher Ricardo Pinto in the first game, but lg coach Ryu Joong-il put forward the starter Pitcher, which was predicted the day before, in the first game of Doubleheader. And Rookie Lee Min-ho, who was on the mission of 'Doubleheader steamer suppression', performed a perfect mission given to him with a run-scoring run of seven innings, six Hits, seven strikeouts and one run.
Pitcher of choice instead of Park Joo-hong who could be Park Yong-taik's successor
Park Yong-taik, lg's leading Hitter who has Hit .300 for the 10th consecutive year of the 2018 season and has achieved 150 Hit for the seventh consecutive year, signed a third FA contract with lg for two years and 2.5 billion won after the season. Park Yong-taik, who has been guaranteed an annual salary of 800 million won by the 42-year-old season in Korea, said, "I want to win the Korea Series during the remaining FA contract." And this year, it finally became the last year of Park Yong-taik's FA contract.
Regardless of whether lg wins, Park Yong-taik is likely to end his active career at the end of this season. Park Yong-taik is still showing off his solidity to record a batting average of .300 this season, but it is somewhat different from the Hotajun who played well and ran well in his prime, as the score of one homerun steals tells. For lg, it is best to achieve the Korea Series title this year and Park Yong-taik is praised by his juniors and fans and finish his active life.
The problem is that there is no candidate for a young Hitter to succeed Park Yong-taik in lg. Of course, lg has a lot of outfielders who boast outstanding Hits such as Kim Hyun-soo, Che Eun Seong, Ariel Linwoong and Lee Hyung-jong. However, Che Eun Seong, the youngest of these, is 31 years old (born February 1990), so he is old enough to be a long-term alternative to Park Yong-taik. On the other hand, prospects such as Hong Chang-ki and Lee Jae-won were not able to get a chance to build up their performance in Group 1 because they were overwhelmed by the big players.
So the player lg fans have been paying attention to since 2018 was Park Joo-hong (Kium Heroes), a big outfielder of Baro Jang Chung-go. Park Joo-hong, who was considered as a "5-tool player" prospect who has a great Hit, accurate Hitting, and excellent pioneering since his second year, was a prospect who said that lg fans should be selected as the first nominee in the 2020 season draft. Park Joo-hong said that Lee Byung-gyu and Park Yong-taik could grow into lg's signboard Hitter.
But the idea of lg was a little different from the fans. lg did not know Park Joo-hong's reputation and potential, but lg was more interested in Park Joo-hong than his right-hander Lee Min-ho with a good physical condition of 189cm 93kg. Lee Min-ho struck out nine consecutive Hits after the start of Kyonggi at the Kyonggi with UEFA Champions League Seoul High School weekend in April, when he struck out in a high school baseball weekend. In the end, Lee Min-ho was selected as lg's first-place player in the 2020 draft, defeating Park Joo-hong.
Lee Min-ho was not included in the Netherlands spring camp and prepared for the season by making himself in Ariel Lin. As Lee Min-ho is still open to growth, it was lg's judgment that it is better to get systematic management in parallel with physical tests and weight training at Ariel Lin Champions Park than to do full-scale technical training with seniors in the Netherlands. And Lee Min-ho, who made his first appearance in Korea in March, was awarded a passing score with an excellent performance and emerged as a candidate for selection.
Lee Min-ho, who played professional debut in four consecutive innings in the opening three-game series against Doosan, went down to the second group for two weeks before playing a selection debut against the Samsung Lions on May 21. Lee Min-ho allowed four walks in 5.1 innings but made his first professional debut win with a scoreless pitch that allowed only one Pi Hit. Lee Min-ho was first beaten in a return match with the Samsung Lions ten days later, but continued his outstanding pitching with two runs in seven innings and seven strikeouts.
Lee Min-ho, who has been in charge of Ryu Joong-il and has maintained a 10-day starting interval, has also played more than expected in SK on the 11th, when he was the third starter. Lee Min-ho tied the SK line with a single run with six Hits, seven strikeouts and 112 pitches in seven innings, despite the burden of Kyonggi being postponed by rain the day before and the next day in Kyonggi. Lee Min-ho's season Earned run average, which has only three earned runs in 23.1 innings this season, is just 1.16.
A Year Ago in Winter lg's Bullpen Pitcher Jung Woo-young was selected as Rookie, but the case of high school graduate starter Pitcher being a pure Rookie should go back to Ryu Hyun-jin (Toronto Blue Jays) in 2006. If you narrow down the scope of high school graduates' right-hander selection, you should summon Kim Soo-kyung of Hyundai Unicorns in 1998. Lee Min-ho, who is surprised by his seniors with a remarkable growth every time he goes on the mound, is now one of the strongest Rookie candidates with his high school rival, Mini standard (kt Wiz).
SK's 7-inning 6-Hit 7K 1-run victory over SK on the 11th, lg Doubleheader sweep