Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants hits a triple against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a Major League Baseball regular-season game at Chase Field in Phoenix on July 2, 2025, in this Associated Press photo. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A day after being held out of the lineup, Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants marked his return with a three-hit effort.
Lee went 3-for-5 with an RBI and scored twice, as the Giants squeezed past the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 at Chase Field in Phoenix on Wednesday (local time). Lee came up a home run shy of a cycle, after recording a triple, a double and then an infield single. He flied out to right field in his final at-bat in the ninth inning.
Lee batted only .143 for June and ended the month on a four-game hitless skid, leading to his benching for the Giants’ first game of July on Tuesday. After his fifth three-hit game of the season Wednesday — first since May 6 — Lee is batting .246/.315/.406 in 83 games.
Batting fifth, Lee came up in the top first against starter Merrill Kelly — Lee’s old foe in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) — with two outs and a runner at first, and the Giants up 1-0. Lee then jumped on a first-pitch fastball and tripled off the right-center field wall to put the Giants up 2-0.
It was Lee’s seventh triple of the season, putting him in a tie for second place in the National League.
(Yonhap)
