"Is the second Hwang Sung-bin coming?" Taiwan's winning team's triple + multi-hit explosion! "Second Army's Big Island" is preparing for emergency

Jang Doo-sung (26, Lotte Giants), a "base specialist" who made a lot of progress last year, reported consecutive hits against the Taiwanese professional baseball champions last year.

Lotte won 7-6 against the Zhongxin Brothers in a 2025 spring camp practice game held at the Tainan Asia-Pacific International Baseball Center in Taiwan on the 18th.메이저놀이터

The two teams continued to display fierce competition throughout the game. As Jungshin scored one run apiece to Lotte starter Park Jin in the first and second innings, Lotte brought the game to square one with Jeon Jun-woo's two-run timely hit in the bottom of the second inning. Lotte, which allowed one run in the top of the third inning, then tied the game 3-3 again with Hwang Sung-bin's timely hit to right field in the bottom of the fifth inning.

After the two teams exchanged two runs apiece in the seventh inning of the offense, Lotte allowed closer Kim Won-joong to give up a run in the top of the ninth inning to lead 5-6. However, Lotte ended the game with a win by tying Choi Hang's timely hit and the opponent's error to score two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning.

With Lotte's batters evenly on base, the only player in the team who had multiple hits was Jang Doo-sung. He contributed to tying the game at 5-5 by exploding a triple that separates left and center in the bottom of the seventh inning. In addition, he had an infield hit at the bottom of the ninth inning to create a chance for the first and third base, and even scored the finishing run. He had two hits, one RBI, and one run from two times at bat on the day.

Jungshin is a strong team that won the Taiwan Series last year by beating the Lions four wins and one loss. Against this backdrop, Jang displayed strong batting performance and brightened his outlook for this season.

Jang Doo-sung is a bit of a stranger if not for Lotte fans. After graduating from Incheon Talent Middle School and Dongsan High School, he joined Lotte in the second round of the 10th round and 93rd overall pick in the 2018 rookie draft. After completing his early military service, he was able to play in the first team only in 2021.

Jang, who played in 192 games for the first team during four seasons until last year, only played 121 at-bats. This is because he played mostly as a pinch runner or as a big player. Last year, he played in 71 games, the most by an individual player, but had a batting average of only 0.156 with five hits in 32 at-bats. His overall batting average is still less than 20 percent (0.183).

However, Jang's real strength lies in his feet. During his six seasons in the Futures League, he stole the bases 97 times in total. In 2021, he stole 37 steals in 70 games and 30 steals in 68 games in 2023, making him a top runner in the second division. Unlike his reputation, he stole only 10 times for three seasons from 2021 in the first division, but last year, he succeeded 14 times in 17 attempts, showing a high success rate of 82.4 percent.

Jang Doo-sung, who met with Star News last year, said, "The two coaches, Ko Young-min and Yoo Jae-shin, trusted me and I trusted them, so it came to me better." He also succeeded in stealing a series of bases against foreign pitchers he had never seen before in the 2024 Ulsan-KBO Fall League, and he said, "I saw the pitching, and when I saw the quick motion (slide step), I thought, 'Oh, I can just go there. I can afford it.'", his sense of running increased to the point where he said, "I can afford it."

Jang lost precious time last season due to a hamstring injury. "I was out for six to seven weeks due to injury, and I was impatient in the first team as well," he confessed. After overcoming this, he said, "My goal for this season is to make a lot of good batting even if the results don't come out as we practiced in the batting, and to increase the success rate while being bold on the base."

Lotte's similar type of player already achieved success last year. It is Hwang Seong-bin (28). He failed to make good use of his fast feet, but he had 51 steals and 83.6 percent success rate in the 2024 season. On top of that, he also achieved his first 100 hits in his career at bat, and posted a batting average of .300 (0.320), although he failed to meet the required number of hits. For Lotte, the best scenario is that Jang Doo-sung also grows like Hwang.

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