‘Later team batting average 0.281’ NC, will you go to the fifth round with firepower? Weak mound still ‘homework’ (SS intensive analysis)

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(Sports Seoul | Reporter Kim Min -kyu) NC continues the hope of fall baseball with a bat. In the second half, he aims to enter the 5th round with a team batting average of 0.281 and second place in the league. But anxious mounds are still a homework to be solved.

NC scored 16-12 in the KIA match held at Changwon NC Park on the 10th. Park Gun -woo’s reversal Grand Slam and Matt Davidson’s three -run home runs and three hits were broken. NC, who won seventh with two consecutive wins, saved the embers of the ‘fifth place’ leap.

In the second half, the NC line is hot. Davidson, who returned from the injury, struck 0.357 and five home runs and 9 RBIs in eight returns. Park Gun -woo also struck 0.429 and two home runs and eight RBIs in August, raising the batting average to 0.286.

The progress of ‘young blood’ is also welcome. At the center is ‘3 金 (Kim Ju -won, Kim Hyung -jun, Kim Hwi -ji)’. In the second half of the year, Kim Joo -won has a batting average of 0.413 and two home runs and 12 RBIs, and Kim Hyung -jun (batting 0.340, two home runs and 10 RBIs) and Kim Hwi -ji (three home runs and 10 RBIs) have helped their attack. In addition, Lee Won -joon and Lee Woo -sung are also strengthening.

The problem is the mound. The average ERA is 5.09, and the average ERA is 4.38. In particular, the average ERA in the second half is 8.13, the lowest in the league. Foreign One -to -Punch Riley Thompson and Logan Allen are shaken, and native Ace Shin Min -hyuk also has an average ERA of 5.03.

At the same time, the bullpen in the second half of the bullpen was holding an average ERA of 3.61 (3rd in the league), but it accumulated enough fatigue. It can collapse at any time. Starting stability is urgent. The firepower of the batting can lead to limitations.

Lee Ho -jun said, “I was able to go over the flow of mass runs at the beginning of the game, but I was able to reverse the atmosphere with Park Gun -woo’s full -run home run. I thanked the players who did their best throughout the week even in the hot weather.”

Hot blowing leads NC to the fifth -final race, but an unstable starting mound is still holding ankle. In the rest of the season, how long ‘fire baseball’ can cover the pitcher’s anxiety, it is expected to be a fall baseball success. kmg@sportsseoul.com