Will the controversial check swing be included in the video review next year.
Coaches of the 10 teams gathered opinions at a supervisor’s meeting at the All Star game and asked KBO to expand its reading of the BPO. It is expected that KBO will make the decision after discussions with its executive committee in the off-season.
If the check swing is included in the video reading, a clear standard should be set. Check swing is not clearly specified in baseball regulations. In general, people tend to judge whether the end of the bat has turned or not. If the check swing is included in the video reading, a situation where the judgment is ambiguous depending on the angle of the camera may occur.
Regarding the check swing at Jamsil Stadium on Friday, KT coach Lee Kang-chul said, “I don’t appeal because the referee doesn’t even listen. Yesterday, I saw the swing (by gesture) here, but I heard it didn’t. I did it, and I did it.”
“Hong Chang-ki made a check swing on the two-two, and gave another two points there. (Third base dugout) When I saw it here, I came out, and the coaches and players all looked over there (third base referee),” he said.
It was in the bottom of the seventh inning of the game on Sunday. KT recovered one run at the top of the seventh inning to make the score 1-4. After Hong Chang-ki was singled off a check swing with one out at the bottom of the seventh inning, LG got on base by hitting a double as a priority. Shin Min-jae’s timely RBI and Moon Bo-kyung’s RBI double hit with two outs, and took the lead with a 6-1 run.
As a criterion for judging a check swing, Lee suggested “whether the bat and the ball intersect.” “From my point of view, regardless of whether the bat rotates or not, I think he is a doctor who tries to hit the ball whether it comes out or not if the bat stops after the ball comes out. I think we can judge the swing by that,” Lee said. “Swinging before the ball comes may not be a swing because we did it before the ball came, but sometimes the ball passes when we try to stop it. That was the intention to swing. So, I think that is the wisest thing to do, not the angle but the intersection of the bat and the ball.”
“Even if the angle of the bat comes out, the ball hasn’t even come yet, and if that’s a swing, I don’t think it makes sense,” coach Lee said. “(On the other hand), the ball passed and the bat came out, but if the end of the bat didn’t come out, it’s not a swing. There are cases where the ball hits the bat even if the end doesn’t come out (even if it stops). Sometimes it hits like that, but if the ball stops after it passes, it should be considered a swing even if it doesn’t hit the bat,” he said. 먹튀검증
Manager Lee continued, “When reviewing the video, you only have to look at the intersection point (of the bat and the ball). I’m talking about the angle now, but I don’t think that angle is meaningful. I have to see if there is any intention to hit it or not. What I felt while pitching as a pitcher is that I clearly see an intersection when I throw it. If you have an intention to hit the Major League, don’t you always call it a swing? Regardless of the angle, you can think about whether the ball intersects or not, and whether the bat was taken out before the ball passed or after the ball passed.”
If the check swing is considered as suggested by coach Lee Kang-chul, most of them will be judged as swingers and misses. “How many batters are over 340,000 now? Even if a sweeper is thrown at 150 kilometers away, it can hit 340,000 to 500 percent,” Lee said.
