The San Francisco Giants won the 2024 Major League New York Mets 5-2 at 10:45 a.m. on the 23rd (Korea time) at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California.
Starting as San Francisco's third center fielder, Lee grounded out to the first base in his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning. He displayed a truly technical batting performance in his second at-bat with no outs in the bottom of the third inning. With a 0-2 ball count, Mets left-hander Jose Quintana's fifth pitch completely missing from the outside, but Lee, who had two consecutive fouls, technically bent his knee, pulled out his body, and hit a hit to the right field, resulting in a clean hit to the right field. Since then, Lee has stepped on the home run until Matt Chapman made a timely hit, and scored a point.
In the third at-bat in the bottom of the fifth inning, Lee Jung-hoo, who was grounded out to first base, got a straight walk in the bottom of the seventh inning with one out and no runner, and finished the game with two bases on one hit, one walk and one run from three times at bat.
Lee Jung-hoo is also the only batter who has struck out in single digits (nine strikeouts) out of 18 MLB rookies who played in more than 50 times at bat until the game on the day. The fact that he has 25 strikeouts (Jax Churio) and is still striking out only nine alone shows how Lee Jung-hoo is a batter who is not easily struck out and is good at making contacts.
Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres had two hits in four at-bats for 26 hits, and Lee added one more hit to 25 hits, briefly falling from joint first place to second place in the most hits by a rookie in the Major League. Still, he is showing good performance among the rookie players in the Major League.
The previous day (22nd), the hit streak ended for 11 consecutive games due to a hitless ball in two at-bats, one walk and one body, but he has played his role as a top-order hitter by making two consecutive on-base hits in the last five games, including two on-base hits.
On the day, San Francisco's batters won the game 5-2 with Nick Ahmed's timely two-run single in the second inning, Matt Chapman's two-run double in the third inning, and Michael Confoto's solo home run in the sixth inning. San Francisco's starting pitcher Keaton Wynn blocked the Mets' batters with one run with a grounding machine, producing seven ground balls without a single fly ball out in six innings.
On the other hand, Mets starter Quintana became a losing pitcher after allowing five runs in five innings. Having won six consecutive games, the loss on the day puts the team on hold due to two consecutive losses.