2024-04-15 12:32:38
If SSG Landers’ slugger Choi Jeong (37) hits one more home run, he will be on par with the record for the most home runs in the KBO League held by Doosan coach Seung-yeop Lee, and if he hits two more, he will be in first place and create a new history.
Choi Jeong hit two home runs in the game against KT Wiz held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 14th.
Choi Jeong-eun, who hit her 466th home run in her career, is just one away from Doosan Bears coach Seung-yeop Lee’s record of 467 home runs in the KBO League, the most home runs.
Choi Jeong-eun is recording 8 home runs in 18 games this season. He is hitting at least one home run every two to three games.
SSG will play six games at home this week. From the 16th to the 18th, the No. 1 team, KIA Tigers, and from the 19th to the 21st, the defending champion LG Twins will be brought to Incheon SSG Landers Field.
Landers Field has a left and right fence distance of 95m and a center fence distance of 120m, making it the smallest among the ‘main home stadiums’ of the 10 KBO League teams. This is an environment that makes it easy for Choi Jeong to produce home runs.
Considering Choi Jeong’s recent home run pace and SSG’s schedule this week, there is a high possibility that the player with the most home runs will change by this weekend at the latest.
Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that results may differ from what was predicted. There are also players who struggle with the so-called ‘nine move’ just as they are on the verge of achieving an important record.
Choi Jeong-do also remembers struggling with nine moves in the past.
On August 2, 2006, the second year of his debut, he hit his 9th home run of the season against the Samsung Lions, and seemed to easily reach double-digit home runs for the first time in history, but was unable to add a home run for about a month, and only added a home run against the KIA Tigers on September 3. did.
In 2012 and 2023, it took more than a month to hit 20 home runs after hitting 19 home runs. Choi Jeong himself is most conscious of this.
Choi Jeong-eun believes that the more he cares about records, the worse the results may be, so he plans to hit the ball with the bat as lightly as possible without exerting any effort.
After the KT game on the 14th, Choi Jeong said calmly, “I am thinking about hitting a hit, not a home run, when I bat. The pace is faster than I expected, so I am nervous,” and “I will maintain my current pace with a cool-headed mindset.”
Reporter Kim Won-geun photo provided by SSG club
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2024-04-15 12:32:38