I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season

Mar 22, 2025

I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is cheering after hitting a two-run shot with one out and second base in the top of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/



I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is cheering after hitting a two-run shot with one out and second base in the top of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/
I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is cheering after hitting a two-run shot with one out and second base in the bottom of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/
The reason why we call home runs the "flower of baseball". This is because it changes the atmosphere of the game.

LG Twins' No. 4 hitter Moon Bo-kyung hit his first shot of the season, which brings the flow of victory in the opening game. Moon Bo-kyung started as the 4th-3rd baseman in the opening match against the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd and hit a two-run shot in his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning.

Moon Bo-kyung, who played against Lotte starter Charlie Barnes with one out and second base leading 1-0 with consecutive doubles by Kim Hyun-soo and Austin, watched a low slider of 131km at the first pitch, but it became a strike, and turned his bat on a low slider of 130km at the second pitch, but it was a foul. unfavorable ball count for 2S.




In the third pitch, Barnes threw a slider again this time. However, the 128km ball became a high pitch in the middle this time, and Moon Bo-kyung hit it without missing it and crossed the right fence. The distance is 128 meters.

It was Moon Bo-kyung's first home run of the season and his first home run of the KBO League 2025 season.

Moon Bo-kyung also hit a home run against Barnes last year. On August 3 last year, he hit a solo shot to the left from Barnes in the fourth inning of the Ulsan game.




I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is taking a hit. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/
I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is cheering after hitting a two-run shot with one out and second base in the bottom of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/
I thought it was a fastball, but it flew 128 meters at 166 kilometers, making it my first homer of the 2025 season. I'm happy to hit my first homer of the season
A game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants at Jamsil Stadium on the 22nd. LG Moon Bo-kyung is cheering after hitting a two-run shot with one out and second base in the bottom of the first inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.22/
Moon Bo-kyung hit a left-handed hit from Barnes in the bottom of the third inning with a 3-0 lead, and scored when Koo Bon-hyuk walked, and in the bottom of the fourth inning, he got on base due to a first baseman error and went to second base on a wild pitch before coming home on Song Chan's double. He led his team to a 12-2 victory with two hits in five at-bats (one home run), two RBIs and three runs scored.

Moon Bo-kyung, who has been the fourth batter since the second half of last year, rather improved his performance and recorded a batting average of 311 runs, 156 hits, 22 home runs and 101 RBIs. He got off to a good start this season as a full-time hitter with a home run.

After the game, Moon Bo-kyung said, `I feel good because I got a home run in my first at-bat. I was slightly expecting it to be my first home run of the season, but I'm happy that it's right, so I feel good about it. "I turned the bat thinking it was a direct ball, but it was a slider. I was a little nervous in the first game and the first at-bat, so I couldn't tell," he said with a smile.




It is a season where we paid more attention to defense than hitting. Moon Bo-kyung trained more on defense than on hitting in the offseason"The goal of this season is to become a more reliable player" he said.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.