Next season... Will Victor be different from Seo Geon-chang
Next season... Will Victor be different from Seo Geon-chang
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Victor Reyes (31, Lotte Giants), the record holder of the most hits (202) in a single season in the KBO League, woke up.
Reyes started the away game against the Hanwha Eagles in the 2025 KBO League held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd and recorded 3 hits and 1 RBI in 4 at-bats. In the top of the 2nd inning, he had a clean hit against Cody Ponce in his first at-bat, and in the 6th inning, when the score was tied 2-2, he hit a left-handed double that went straight to the scoring position in the absence of a runner with one out. When the troubleshooter did not come out in this situation, he hit a double to the left-center against Hanwha setup man Park Sang-won in the 8th inning, when the score was tied 2-2, and Lotte took the lead. Lotte added one run in the top of the 9th inning, and closer Kim Won-joong won the game by keeping a two-run lead. Lotte, which has been undefeated in four consecutive games (3 wins, 1 draw) since the KT Wiz match on the 29th of last month, rose to the 5th place with 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses.
Reyes had 202 hits in all games (144 games) in 2024. In 2014, he broke the previous KBO league record of most hits (201) in a single season. He is a foreign hitter with a batting average of 0.352 for this season. Lotte re-signed him and gave him $1.25 million.
However, the team has cooled down Reyes' hitting sense in the early days of this season. After having two hits in the opening game against the LG Twins on March 22, he had only four hits in eight games. He had a batting average of 0.167 in nine games he played through Sunday.바카라
Seo Geon-chang, who has exceeded 200 hits for the first time in the history of the KBO League, left for a long time in nine games the following year (2025 season) due to a ruptured posterior cruciate ligament of his right knee. Even after returning, he had difficulty adapting for a while by modifying his batting posture. Various factors, such as an in-depth analysis of the opponent toward the player who set the milestone, the player's own desire to show better performance, and his attitude toward higher expectations, can lead to negative results.
Reyes, who is in such a situation, hit a timely hit that proved Lotte's back-to-back spirit. It was also meaningful to play three-hit games for the first time this season. When he, who is the fourth batter, presses the opponent's battery, the third and fifth batters in front and back can also enjoy the "umbrella effect." Last season, it was achieved.
It is also important that Reyes played a part in the process of Lotte, which had only two wins, one draw and five losses until last week, winning two consecutive games in Daejeon and rising. Lotte woke up a number of hitters who had been sluggish until last week, with Yoon Dong-hee crossing the 8m fence on the right side of Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon and the so-called Monster Wall in the match on the 2nd. There was a bad news that Son Ho-young, the main third baseman, left due to a side injury, but some players showed potential like Lee Ho-joon, a second-year infielder.
Lotte will move to its home ground in Busan to face the Doosan Bears. Doosan is also on the rise, winning two consecutive games against the Kiwoom Heroes. Attention is focusing on the team that will advance further between the two.