NC Dinos’ fans have never really had to deal with losing. It’s not that they haven’t lost a lot of games – they’ve made it to the postseason four times, but never won – but they’re the only team in the KBO that has never had a bad year or floundered at the bottom of the table.
The Dinos’ postseason streak has been impressive for such a young team. The baseball club has only been in the KBO for five years, and yet 2013, the team’s debut season, was the only year that it didn’t make it to the final stages.
When they fell out of the top five on April 20, the fans weren’t that worried. They know that the Dinos were a strong team – a trip into the bottom five was always going to be temporary. But the Dinos didn’t bounce back like fans expected. One month later, on May 20, the Dinos fell to last place and have stayed there ever since.
The Dinos are not doing so well
At the start of the season, it looked like it was business as usual at Masan Baseball Stadium in Changwon, South Gyeongsang. The Dinos spent the first month vying for first place with the Doosan Bears and the SK Wyverns. A downward spiral in the middle of April developed into a disastrous month in May. As of 6 p.m. Thursday the Changwon-based team have only won six out of 24 games in May, and are now a full five games behind the Samsung Lions in ninth place, and 16.5 games behind the Bears in first place.
The Dinos have struggled with injuries for the last month, but the problem seems to run deeper than that. Statistically, their starters have played significantly worse this season, and the spate of injuries that hit the team in May have only compounded the problem.
