On June 3, the Lotte Giants were sitting in third place in the top Korean baseball league, with a 29-18 record putting them just two games behind the first-place SSG Landers. Things were looking up for the franchise that hasn’t won a championship since 1992 and has only been an occasional postseason participant in recent years.
Over the next three weeks, though, much of the hope the Giants gave their famously passionate fan base has evaporated, instead giving way to a familiar sense of despair and resignation ― that maybe this wasn’t going to be the year after all.
Entering the new week of play in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), the Giants are right at the .500 mark at 33-33. They are now nine games 스포츠 back of the Landers, who are still in first place, and only one game up on the Doosan Bears. The Giants have the league’s worst record for June at 6-16.
The NC Dinos took advantage of the Giants’ downfall by climbing to third place this month, though the Dinos themselves have dropped four straight games.
With a little over half of the season left, it may still be too early for Giants fans to abandon hope entirely. But a quick start, followed by weeks and even months of subpar baseball, has been a recurring theme for recent Giants teams.
