Ha-seong Kim (San Diego Padres) hit a double-digit home run for the second year in a row in the Major League Baseball.메이저토토사이트
Kim Ha-seong played as the first hitter in the away game against the Cincinnati Reds in the 2023 Major League Baseball held at Grade American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on the 3rd (Korean time), hitting a solo home run and leading the team’s batting line.
In the top of the 8th inning, when San Diego was trailing 0-2, Kim Ha-seong, who entered the plate with no runners, hit Cincinnati left-handed starter Andrew Abbott’s first pitch and passed it over the left fence. It was a line drive home run like a clothesline with a distance of 117m, an exit speed of 167km per hour, and a launch angle of 19 degrees.
After breaking the scoreless silence with Kim Ha-sung’s home run, San Diego’s batting line immediately tied the score 2-2 with another hitter, Fernando Tatis Jr., hitting a solo home run.
But San Diego’s hopes were short-lived. San Diego, which hit a two-run home run by Cincinnati’s Tyler Stevenson in the bottom of the eighth inning, lost the game 3-4, only recovering one run with Jake Cronenworth’s timely hit in the last attack in the top of the ninth.
11 home runs in 150 games last year… 10 home runs in 80 games this year
Although San Diego lost, Ha-seong Kim fulfilled his role as the number one batter by going 3 at bats, 1 hit and 1 RBI, and getting 1 walk. He also raised his season batting average to 0.258 (66 hits in 256 at-bats).
With this, Kim Ha-seong, who started his homerun four again after 3 games, recorded his 10th home run of the season, reaching double digits this year following last season (11 home runs).
But this year, you can look higher. Kim Ha-seong, who hit 11 home runs in 150 games last year, hit 10 home runs in 80 games this year. He also stole 13 bases using his quick feet.
If Kim Ha-seong continues his current performance in the second half, he can try to join the ’20 Home Run-20 Steal’ club, a symbol of the Hota Jun tribe.
Choo Shin-soo is the only Korean player to achieve 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in one season in the major leagues. It is a difficult record to the extent that there are only Asian players, Choo Shin-soo and Japan’s Shohei Ohtani (LA Angels).
’20 home runs – 20 stolen bases’ challenge… If successful, it will be the first Asian infielder
If Ha-seong Kim achieves this, he will become the third Asian player. However, if you narrow the scope to an infielder, Kim Ha-seong is the first.
20 homers and 20 stolen bases last year were only nine in the major leagues. If Kim Ha-seong, who is recognized as the best infield defense, achieves 20 homers and 20 stolen bases, he can surely prove his worth in offense.
One of the big reasons to expect Kim Ha-sung’s performance is that his ability to respond to the opposing pitcher’s fast ball is noticeably improving. At the beginning of his advance to the major leagues, he struggled with fast balls, but he is aggressively attacking in his third year.
In the match against the Washington Nationals on the 26th of last month, he hit a fast ball of 156.1 km/h and in the match against the Pittsburgh Pirates on the 30th, he hit a fast ball at 156.6 km/h and hit a home run. In addition, recently, as he has frequently appeared as the number one hitter, the opportunity to enter the plate is increasing.
Attention is focusing on whether Kim Ha-seong, who is leading San Diego on both offense and defense, will achieve his first 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in the major leagues with 10 homers and 7 stolen bases.