It was underground underground… “Losing defeat, losing defeat, losing defeat.” NC, 2nd place → couldn’t avoid “the greatest fall ever” in last place

Neither the opponent’s overall advantage nor the “Cheongju undefeated” was of any use. The NC Dinos failed to break their losing streak and eventually fell to the bottom of the ranking table.

NC lost 2-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Hanwha Eagles in the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Cheongju Baseball Stadium on the 20th.

I thought the ninth place would be at the bottom, but there was an underground. The NC Dinosaurs (49 wins, 2 draws and 62 losses and a winning percentage of 0.441), whose record for consecutive losses has increased to 11 games, fell to 10th place, trailing the Kiwoom Heroes (51 wins, 64 losses and a winning percentage of 0.443), who beat the KT Wiz on the same day. NC, which threatened the No. 1 Kia Tigers by ranking second until May 22, three months ago, fell to the lowest spot in the rankings exactly 90 days.
The game started about 30 minutes later than scheduled due to ground maintenance work. The initial stage was based on the trend of pitching competition. In the top of the second inning, Kwon Hee-dong hit a slider from Hanwha starter Moon Dong-ju, and hit a solo shot at first. Hanwha recovered a point by banking on Hwang Young-mook’s bold home run when Lee Do-yoon grounded out to the first base with one out and runners on the third base in the bottom of the second inning.

The 1-1 balance, which continued until the fourth inning, cracked again with a home run in the top of the fifth inning. With no runners on base with one out, Kim Joo-won rolled up Moon Dong-ju’s curveball and fired a solo shot over the right fence.

In the bottom of the fifth inning when NC`s starting pitcher Eric Jokish took the lead of 2-1, held two outs and allowed Chae to walk after a nine-pitch match. He also sent Hwang Young-mook on infield hits, putting him on the verge of being hit with runners on the first and second bases with two outs. After a tough battle by sending runners on every inning, Yokish already pitched 109 pitches, and NC put Kim Si-hoon to put out the fire.

The NC Dinosaurs laughed at two home runs but cried at two home runs in the second half of the game. With runners on with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Ryu gave Noh a solo home run, tying the game 2-2. 토토사이트

The NC Dinosaurs lost in a tight race against the bullpen. Kim Jae-yeol’s fourth pitch with a ball count of 2 to 1 hit the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning made a forkball to the center, and Peraza did not miss it. Peraza had an inkling of a home run at the moment of hitting the ball, and stared at the ball for a long time. The NC Dinosaurs ended up in a quagmire of losing 11 consecutive games due to a walk-off home run.

Before the game, NC boasted an overwhelming advantage of seven wins, two draws and one loss against Hanwha this season, and eight wins out of eight in Cheongju-gu, but the dark energy of the losing streak destroyed all hope.

In the early days of this season, the NC Dinosaurs closely followed the top-ranked KIA Tigers and engaged in a race for the top spot. Through May 22, when the team played 33 percent of the regular season, it had 27 wins, one draw and 20 losses (winning rate of 0.574) in 48 games, trailing Kia by two games. However, the team went downhill little by little after that, eventually finishing the first half in sixth place.

NC started the second half of the year hoping for the fall baseball season as it was sixth, trailing the fifth-ranked SSG Landers in overall winning percentage. However, NC is experiencing an incredible slump of 9 wins and 21 losses (0.300 win percentage) in the second half.

The bigger problem is that there is no way out. It is unclear when Son Ah-seop and Park Kun-woo, the core players of the batting lineup, who have both been sidelined due to injuries, will return. Kyle Hart, who had been removed from the roster due to colds, was scheduled to return after recovering his sense of play in the Futures League, but the timing of his return has also been delayed due to delayed pitching schedule. If this continues, NC could face humiliating the lowest rank in the regular season again for the first time in six years since 2018.

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