Compared to last year, the start is different. Lotte Giants have risen to second place alone amid the performance of the batters.

Lotte won 8-1 in the away game of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League regular season against the Samsung Lions at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 18th.온라인카지노

After being quiet until the third inning, Lotte found vitality from its offense in the top of the fourth inning. After leadoff hitter Ko Seung-min had a hit, Jeon immediately hit a double to score the first run. After two outs, Na Seung-yeop hit a two-run homerun off Samsung starter Lee Seung-hyun's second pitch high slider at right.

Lotte's bat continued to cool down in the next inning. Hwang Sung-bin's double and Ko Seung-min's timely hit came out in the top of the fifth inning with one out and runners on second base, which were made by Jeon Min-jae's hit. Jeon Jun-woo struck out, but Lotte scored four runs in the fifth inning alone as Victor Reyes exploded a two-run shot to left. Lotte scored one more run in the sixth inning with a solo homer by Information-geun.

After starting pitcher Tucker Davidson went down after allowing five scoreless innings on the mound, Lotte's Park Jin-hyung, Park Si-young, Kim Sang-soo, Park Jin-soo and Jung Hyun-soo came up one after another and allowed one run in the remaining four innings. In the end, Lotte kept this lead to the end and won the game.

By winning the match on the day, Lotte will have won four consecutive games since the match against Sajik Kiwoom on the 15th. After winning three games in a row from the match against Sajik NC on the 10th, it lost one game, but continues to add wins again. With 12 wins, 10 losses and one draw (0.545 win rate), Lotte has risen to the second place alone. This is the first time that Lotte has risen since Kim Tae-hyung took the helm last year.

Lotte has demonstrated the power of its mid-range shots in its batting lineup. Lotte ranks seventh with 11 homers, but has the most doubles with 44. Its team batting average also rose to the top with 0.282. Thanks to this, Lotte has been producing runs through strong offense.

In the batting lineup, Jeon Min-jae, a transfer player, is showing a surprising performance of being at the top of the batting lineup, and Yoo Kang-nam, who was out early last year due to injury, is also showing good performance. Ko Seung-min and Jeon Jun-woo, who had been slowing down at the beginning of the season, are also gradually raising their feelings, while veteran Kim Min-sung is also performing like an altoran. On top of that, Reyes, who had not had a long shot, also made a strong hit on the 18th.

It looked so different from last year. Through April of the 2024 season, Lotte started the season at the bottom of the list with eight wins, 21 losses and one draw (winning rate of 0.276). During the period, Lotte ranked ninth with a batting average of 0.262, with no players except for Reyes. However, the figure has improved since mid-April when Hwang Sung-bin and Son Ho-young appeared.

Since May, Lotte has achieved a winning rate of more than 500 percent (0.523) and has successfully rebounded. However, the team failed to recover its winning rate, which it lost from the start, and ended up with no winning rate of 50 percent until the 144th game.

Looking back at the beginning of last season after the end of the 2024 season, Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung (58) said, "I thought it would be difficult from the start of the trial game. I tested the infielders because I thought it would be difficult with them," adding, "The players must have been very busy."

The team got off to a bad start again this year. At the opening two consecutive games against the LG Twins, the team lost by a score of 4-22, and started the game with one win and five losses. Nonetheless, the team's lineup, which had remained silent, started rebounding with the start of April, and native starters such as Park Se-woong, Kim Jin-wook, and Na Kyun-an have been holding out on to the mound, continuing to show good results.