Kim Ha-sung (28, San Diego Padres) was silent without a hit amid the bad luck of being ruled a strike.
Kim Ha-sung started the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) Oakland Athletics home game at Petco Park in San Diego, California, on the 13th (Korea time) and had no hits in four times at bat.
Kim Ha-sung’s batting average for the season fell from 0.226 to 0.222 (53 hits in 239 times at bat). 토토사이트 추천
In the first at-bat in the second inning, Kim Ha-sung hit a changeup by Hogan Harris, the opponent’s left-handed starter, and hit a fly ball to left field.
In the fourth inning, a fast ball of 153 kilometers per hour rolled in front of the shortstop.
In the third at-bat, a disappointing decision came out.
At the end of the seventh inning, Kim Ha-sung watched right-handed bullpen Danny Jimenez’s fifth pitch outside fastball with a ball count of 3-ball-1 strike before moving toward first base, convinced that it was a “ballnet.”
However, the referee declared a ‘strike’.
Kim Ha-sung, who stood at the plate again, hit a fastball, but turned to a ground ball to the second base.
Kim Ha-sung, who appeared as a leadoff hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning when the score was 4-4, hit Oakland closer Mason Miller’s 164km/h fastball to make a 167km/h hit, but the ball flew straight to the second base.
Kim Ha-sung struggled, but San Diego won a walk-off victory for the second day in a row.
San Diego, which was dragged 2-4, brought the game to square one with Donovan Solano’s two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth inning, and Jackson Merrill hit a walk-off home run over the right wall to win 5-4.
San Diego, which won the game with Kyle Higashioka’s solo shot in the bottom of the ninth inning the previous day, won the game again and swept the three consecutive games against Oakland.