Young Kim Do-young's `I got the hang of it' confidence, there was a clear reason
Aug 13, 2024
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Joining the club '30-30' with only one home run left. Kim Do-young (21, KIA Tigers) regained his confidence.
Kim Do-young has a batting average of 346, 29 homers and 33 steals in 109 games this season. Kim Do-young, whose monthly batting average has consistently exceeded .300 since April, has been batting .258 in nine games in August.
Kim Do-young's batting pace slowed down with 30 home runs and 30 steals in front of him. Even after hitting 29 home runs in Daejeon Hanwha on the 3rd, Kim Do-young expressed his concern by saying, `Homerun that comes out when it's bad.'
Ahead of the Gocheok Kiwoom Heroes match on the 13th, KIA Tigers manager Lee Bum-ho delivered the news of Kim Do-young, who has regained his confidence. Director Lee said that Kim Do-young himself was 'Now he got it'
Kim Do-young warmed up by hitting a hit at his first at-bat on the 13th. Kim Do-young, who took the batter's box with two outs in the top of the first inning when the score was 0-0, scored a hit off Kiwoom starter Kim Yoon-ha. He hit a curve that fell to the lower side of the strike zone and neatly dropped it in front of center field.
Kim Do-young, who failed to produce additional hits in the second at-bat, drew a walk in the fourth at-bat and succeeded in stealing. With a 1-0 lead, he became the leading scorer and homered with a timely hit by subsequent Socrates.
He has consistently hit hits before, but his first at-bat hit on the day was a little more meaningful to Kim Do-young. Kim Do-young said "I tend not to hit the ball at all when the batting cycle drops. Compared to when the batting feeling was good and when it was bad, I modified it because I had a batting form that was bound to not fit the ball."
Kim Do-young continued "In the meantime, when it hit well, I felt like I was holding it from behind and hitting it, but when it was bad, my upper body went forward. I paid attention to that part, but I got a hit"The part I practiced became a hit, so the first hit at-bat is meaningful" he said with a smile.
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There was no home run, but Kim Do-young announced that his 30th home run was imminent with his first at-bat hit.
Meanwhile, if Kim Do-young, who was born on October 2, 2003, adds a home run, he will be the youngest player to hit 30 homers and 30 steals, surpassing Park Jae-hong (22 years, 11 months and 27 days) in 1996.
In the KBO League, there were only a total of eight home runs and 30 steals. After Park Jae-hong did it for the first time in 1996, he achieved it three times by 1998 and 2000, and Lee Jong-beom (1997), Lee Byung-kyu, Hong Hyun-woo, Jay Davis (1999), and Eric Thames (2015). Kim Do-young will reach the 30-30 home run-30 steal mark for the first time in 24 years since Park Jae-hong in 2000.
This season, Kim Do-young is running relentlessly toward the MVP. In April, he recorded 10 home runs-10 steals per month for the first time in the KBO league, and in June, he surpassed his 57th career 20 home runs-20 steals. Park Jae-hong, Lee Byung-kyu and Thames have 20 homers and 20 steals in the first half for the fifth time in history.
With spectacular but steady performances, he was selected as the monthly MVP in March and April, followed by the monthly MVP in June. In addition, he achieved a cycling hit in the match against Gwangju NC on the 23rd of last month. He is the 31st cycling hit in history, but he is the first KBO league to be listed as the record holder of the minimum at-bat (four at-bats) natural cycling hit (hit-double-triple-homer in turn).
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