LG Twins’ Moon Bo-kyung (24) is making a soft landing as the fourth batter.
As the fourth batter through Sunday, Moon had a batting average of 0.308 (51 hits in 143 times at bat), six homers and 34 RBIs. His slugging percentage is 0.552. He is second to none as the fourth batter. He garnered more RBIs with a higher slugging percentage than when he played as the fifth batter (batting percentage of 0.323, seven homers, 26 RBIs and 0.513 slugging percentage) of this season.
Moon Bo-kyung, who started this year mostly in the fifth and sixth batting order as last year, started as the fourth hitter due to the team’s situation. As Kim Hyun-soo, who was the third hitter, failed to find his pace, the LG coaching staff deployed Austin Dean as the third hitter and Moon as the fourth hitter since early July to maximize scoring ability. “We had a plan to use Moon as the fourth hitter from next year, but we decided to move it up a little bit. We have high expectations that Moon will be the same style as Choi Hyung-woo (KIA Tigers) thanks to his power and accuracy,” LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said at the time.
While it would be burdensome to sit in the fourth position as a troubleshooter, Moon is coping well. When he needs to score a point, he makes a long hit of more than a double to increase his team’s scoring capacity to the maximum. Whenever there is talk of the fourth batter, he always answers, “I am not too conscious of the batting order,” which is an expression of his commitment not to be swayed psychologically. Perhaps because of this, he is constantly sending out long balls. In the bottom of the seventh inning against the KT Wiz in Jamsil on Wednesday, he also garnered a three-run arch with a 4-1 lead. It was his 16th homer of this season.
Austin’s move to the third batter’s box is also successful. As the third batter, Austin has scored more RBIs and is racing toward the top of the RBIs. As the gap between him and the runner-up is quite large, he is highly likely to become the first LG batter to become the top scorer.
LG is not as powerful as last year’s when it won the combined championship. This is where the coaching staff is concerned. However, Moon Bo-kyung’s transformation into the fourth batter has been a huge success. 메이저사이트
