'Backup prospects → 3rd baseman → AG gold medal → 4th hitter' icon of development over the past four years. It's a career high again this year
Aug 28, 2024
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LG Moon Bo-kyung is solidifying his position by performing better during the fourth batter period of more than a month. He faithfully played the role of the fourth batter by hitting an RBI single to defeat natural enemy Benjamin.
In the home game against KT Wiz in Jamsil on the 27th, Moon Bo-kyung started as a designated hitter and scored two hits and two RBIs in four at-bats to lead his team to a 6-1 victory.
The key point of the day is to defeat Wes Benjamin, the opponent's starter. Benjamin has played very well against LG with five wins, no losses and an ERA of 1.07 in eight games in two years since last year.
For LG, the odds are high only when Benjamin is defeated early. Fortunately, with the opponent's error on his back in the bottom of the second inning, he scored two points first to lead 2-0 and scored an additional point in the bottom of the third inning. Moon Bo-kyung also joins the team.
Moon Bo-kyung, who was struck out in his first at-bat in the bottom of the second inning, added an RBI with a clean right-center hit in his second at-bat after Austin's three-base hit to lead 3-0 after two outs in the bottom of the third inning. It was a score that allowed LG to relax by leading 4-0.
And at the bottom of the seventh inning, when the score was 4-1, Shin Min-jae's timely hit scored one run, and Moon Bo-kyung added a wedge RBI with a double to the left with two outs and third base.
Moon Bo-kyung, who had only one hit in 10 hits to Benjamin last year, became the best LG hitter against Benjamin this year. This year, he will have a batting average of 444 with four hits in nine at-bats against Benjamin.
Moon Bo-kyung said, `Since last year, the results have not been good against Benjamin. "He's a pitcher with good control and good ball power" "But I didn't think about that in today's game and tried to play the same game. At the batter's box, he tried to hit a fastball coming toward his body rather than a long-distance course ball, and most of all, Molly tried not to miss the ball. As a result, I think I was in good condition and I was lucky, leading to a good result" and satisfied.
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Moon Bo-kyung said, `I'm not particularly conscious of hitting long balls just because I'm the fourth hitter.' `I just try to make a hit that helps the team win.'
Moon Bo-kyung, who graduated from Shinil High School and joined in the second third round in 2019, started playing in the first team in 2021. At first, he started to play as the backup of the main player Kim Min-sung, but before he knew it, he gained the main position and played full-time as the main player for the third base starting in 2022. Last year, he won LG's first gold medal in 29 years with the Asian Games national team around his neck, and this year he stood tall as the fourth batter.
Your grades go up every year. The number of home runs went up one by one from eight in 2021 to nine in 2022 and 10 last year, but this year the number has already reached 15. The number of RBIs also rose from 39 in 2021 to 56 in 2022, and from 72 last year to 76 this year.
The number of hits also started with 64 and recorded 128 and 141, and as of the 27th, the number of hits is 128, which is likely to exceed last year's record. This is a representative success story of LG's development.
Moon Bo-kyung said, "Thank you to the fans who came to cheer for us, and I will repay you with good results until the end"I vowed.
Jamsil = Reporter Kwon In-ha indyk@sportschosun.com
indyk@sportschosun.com
