San Diego Padres Kim Ha-sung continued his batting sense with three consecutive hits.
Kim Ha-sung recorded one hit and two strikeouts in five at-bats in an away game against the Baltimore Orioles at Camdenyard Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland on the 28th (Korea time).
The San Diego Padres swept the game 9-4, boasting starting pitcher Michael King’s good pitching and the concentration of its batters, who effectively set off 11 hits. The San Diego Padres display strong performance in the second half of the year. Having grabbed six consecutive wins, the most in this season, San Diego added one win on the previous day and won seven consecutive games, marking 57 wins and 50 losses.
As a result, the team firmly ranked second in the National League West, jumping to the second place in the wild card rankings. As the Atlanta Braves defeated the New York Mets 4-0, Atlanta (55 wins and 48 losses) rose to first place, followed by San Diego (55 wins and 49 losses), and the Mets (55 wins and 49 losses) fell to third place.
Kim Ha-sung hit two hits each against the Washington Nationals and Baltimore on the 26th and 27th, and added a hit on the same day to succeed in three consecutive hits. Kim Ha-sung marked a batting average of 0.229 (81 hits in 354 at-bats), 10 homers, 43 RBIs, 54 runs, 51 walks, 19 steals, 0.327 on-base percentage, 0.367 slugging percentage and 0.694.
However, Kim Ha-sung left a regret as he struck out swinging in both scoring chances.
Kim Ha-sung, who started as the eighth shortstop, struck out swinging in his first at-bat in the top of the second inning when he was 0-0. Kim Ha-sung, who took the batter’s box with one out and runners on the first and third bases, swung his bat to Baltimore right-hander Dean Creamer’s high fastball of 94.3 miles on the fourth pitch with a ball count of 1B2S. The 86.7 mile cutter, which took a bunting position on the first pitch and fell slightly outside, was ruled a strike, leaving a regret.
He hit a fly ball to center field in his second batter’s box as a leadoff hitter in the fourth inning with a 3-0 lead. He strongly hit a splitter that fell 83.5 miles into the middle on the fourth pitch of the ball count 1B2S, but was caught by Cedric Mullins in the center field.
He hit a fly to right field after one out in the sixth inning with a 4-0 lead. With a ball count of 2B2S, he hit a sinker in the middle of 93.2 miles on Creamer’s sixth pitch to right, but headed right for right fielder Anthony Santander.
However, Kim Ha-sung produced a hit with accurate contact heating at the fourth batter’s box in the top of the eighth inning when the game was going to be decided with an 8-2 lead. After being driven into a two-strike by the opponent’s left-hander Cole Irvin, he lightly hit a 76.1 mile curve that fell outside the third pitch with his waist slightly out, leading to a hit that fell in front of center field.
Kim Ha-sung then created a scoring position by tagging up to second base with an offensive base on Kyle Higashiogac’s deep fly to left-center. However, subsequent Luis Arraez stepped down with an outfield fly, and Jake Cronenworth hit a fly ball to shortstop following Jurickson Profar’s intentional four pitches, failing to score.
Kim Ha-sung struck out swinging in the last at-bat with two outs and a third base in the ninth inning with a 9-2 lead.
San Diego took the lead in the top of the second inning when Baltimore shortstop Gunner Henderson and third baseman Ramon Urías missed Higashioka’s high hit while trying to catch each other with two outs and runners on the second and third bases.
San Diego added one run in the third inning with Xander Bogaerts’ left double with one out and runners on the first and third bases, and Higashioka scored and ran 4-0 in the fourth inning, taking advantage of shortstop Henderson’s bad pitch that was attempting a double play when Profar grounded out to second base with one out and runners on the first and second bases.
San Diego added four more runs in the seventh inning with Manny Machado’s three-run homer to the center and Jackson Merrill’s sacrifice fly, making it 8-0 to seal the victory. 스포츠토토
San Diego’s starting pitcher King allowed two hits, two walks, nine strikeouts and two runs in six ⅓ innings, and won nine games (six losses) this season.
