‘There is such a moon’… KIA Kim Do-young hits 10 home runs and 10 stolen bases per month for the first time in professional baseball history[볼매운동:볼수록 매력있는 운동이야기]

2024-04-27 03:26:08

Kim Do-young’s ‘Thread’ post that shook the social media ecosystem beyond professional baseball last summer. As this phrase became a hot topic as a ‘meme’ here and there, Kim Do-young, who said, “I’m thinking a lot about becoming famous for baseball rather than things like this,” achieved 10 home runs and 10 stolen bases per month for the first time in professional baseball history on the 25th. Doyoung Kim thread capture

Kim Do-young (21, KIA), born in 2003, rewrote 42 years of professional baseball history.

Kim Do-young appeared as the leadoff hitter in the top of the 5th inning in the game against Kiwoom held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 25th and hit his 10th home run of the season with a distance of 130 meters on the first pitch. Kim Do-young, who had already achieved 11 stolen bases until the previous day, achieved 10 home runs and 10 stolen bases in the month of April alone with this home run. Hitting 10 home runs and 10 stolen bases in one month is a record that no one has ever achieved in professional baseball since its inception in 1982.

Kim Do-young, who has already achieved 10 home runs and 11 stolen bases after playing 27 games, is on pace to mathematically reach 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases if he plays 144 games in a season. The highest record of simultaneous home runs and stolen bases in a professional baseball season is 47 home runs and 40 stolen bases by Eric Thames (38, NC at the time) in 2015. Thames won the regular season Most Valuable Player (MVP) this year.

KIA Kim Do-young came out as the leadoff hitter in the top of the 5th inning in the game against Kiwoom held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 25th and hit his 10th home run of the season. Kim Do-young, who has already completed 11 stolen bases, achieved 10 home runs and 10 stolen bases in one month for the first time in professional baseball history with this home run. News 1

Home runs, which require strength, and stolen bases, which require speed, are considered qualities that must be chosen as ‘choice 1’ for many baseball players. Aside from Thames, the last domestic player to hit 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases was Park Jae-hong (51) in 2000. No one achieved 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases, which have lower hurdles than this, last season, and only one LG player Oh Ji-hwan (34) achieved them in the most recent 2022 season.

However, Kim Do-young, who is evaluated as having physical talent that combines speed and power, has no intention of giving up either. Kim Do-young said, “I want to break the record of ‘10 home runs and 10 stolen bases’ for the first month in professional baseball,” adding, “I’m the type of person who enjoys attention.”

On this day, KIA achieved a 13-2 victory over Kiwoom thanks to Yang Hyun-jong’s excellent pitching, allowing 2 runs in 7 innings, and the batting line that gave up 16 hits. On this day, KIA had a ‘triple victory’ not only with Kim Do-young’s great record, but also with starting pitcher Yang Hyun-jong’s 170th win and the team’s 20th win of the season. In history, teams with 20 wins won the regular season championship in 62.9% of cases (22 out of 35 times). Among them, 48.6% (17 out of 35) won the Korean Series.

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2024-04-27 03:26:08