The top and bottom liners are generally strong lineups. No matter how strong the top line is, if the bottom line does not play a minimum role, the power is halved. Opponent pitchers also find it easier to manage the game. It is possible to choose to deal with the burdensome hitter as carefully as possible and to see the game after that. NC gave up another winning series in Suwon KT's three-game series on the 11th and 13th. It is a three-straight losing series against KT following the previous two three-game losing streak. With a 7-3 victory on the 11th, they broke the chain of six consecutive losses against KT, but lost the next two games 3-4 and 0-4.
The content was not good beyond the results of the game. On the 12th against KT Koh Young-pyo, he hit 13 hits in 7 innings, but only scored 3 runs. He had chances to load the bases safely in the 3rd and 5th innings and 2 times, but failed to score a single point. On the 13th, Gyeonggi Province was frustrated. There were only 7 walks on base until the 7th inning due to the search for a ball that was excluded from KT selection, but no timely hit came out. It took a lot of chances in the lower batting line 6-9. For two days on the 12th and 13th, NC scored 4 hits in 22 at-bats. He went 4-for-10 1–5 times, but went 0-for-12 6–9. On the other hand, for KT, on the 12th, the 9th batter assigned team scored 3 RBIs, and on the 13th, the 7th batter Oh Yoon-seok scored the first final RBI.
Third baseman Seo Ho-cheol, who had a high batting average of 0.301 and found a way out in the lower batting line, has a large vacancy. On the 5th, Seo Ho-cheol injured his finger during the base run against Kiwoom and lost power. NC coach Kang In-kwon tried to fill the void left by Seo Ho-cheol with Do Tae-hoon and Choi Bo-seong, but neither of them fell short of expectations. 안전놀이터 Choi Bo-seong, who exposed his defensive anxiety, couldn’t play at all in KT’s 3-game series, and on the 14th, he was eventually dropped from the first team entry. Do Tae-hoon is in an extreme slump with 1 hit in 22 at-bats from the beginning of August until the 14th. He started as a third baseman throughout the KT 3-game series, but only scored 1 hit in 9 at-bats. On the 12th, in his first chance to safely load the bases against Ko Young-pyo, the double hit with the grounder in front of the pitcher for the first pitch was particularly painful.
After Seo Ho-cheol was removed, NC's 'polarization of the batting line' is great. In six games on the 6th to 13th, NC batters 1 to 5 recorded 39 hits in 122 at-bats and a batting average of 0.320. Batters 6 through 9 are 12-for-80 with a batting average of 0.150. During the same period, the overall league record was 0.276 batting average for batting 1-5 and 0.259 batting average for batting 6-9. Excluding NC, if only the remaining 9 teams are counted, there is virtually no difference at 0.271 for times 1 to 5 and 0.270 for times 6 to 9. There is no home run hitter like Noh Si-hwan or Choi Jeong in NC. It is a team that solves the game with consecutive hits, not 'one shot'. If the bottom batting order is sluggish, it is a structure that makes the game even more frustrating compared to other teams.
Seo Ho-cheol received a 3-week rehabilitation treatment for a ligament injury in his left little finger. NC announced that Seo Ho-cheol started training on the 15th.