We play different baseballs. The fourth batter, perfect for steel magic baseball. I hit the ball of the first candidate and hit a home run.
Mar 08, 2025
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It is a joke that KT Wiz's Jang Sung-woo often did last year. KT's batting lineup is a little different. Coach Lee Kang-chul's baseball changed little by little, and he began to draw a clear line last year. Rojas was often used as a top hitter. Rojas ranked first in the team's batting average (0.329), hits (188), home runs (32), and RBIs (112) last year. He also ranked first in the team and second overall with an on-base percentage of 0.421.
Usually, you have to hit three or four times with this kind of performance, but manager Lee Kang-chul was the first hitter. It means that you make a lot of good hitters.
This year, he made a more bold batting order. No. 1 Kang Baekho and No. 2 LOHAS. Kang Baek-ho was second in the team after Rojas with a batting average of 289, 159 hits, 26 home runs and 96 RBIs last year.
Placing the two best hitters at No. 1 and No. 2.
Then who hits number 3 and 4.
Rather, coach Lee placed a batter with good contact ability at No. 3 and 4. Heo Kyung-min at No. 3 and Jang Sung-woo at No. 4. Head coach Lee explained that both have good contact skills and know how to play team batting that fits the situation.
On the first day of the exhibition game, this lineup shone.
KT met with the LG Twins at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 8th. It's Saturday, and the weather is clear and not cold, so 13,179 people visited.
LG starter Yoni Chirinos, who was playing well in the bottom of the fourth inning, trailing 0-1, was defeated by the top lineup made by head coach Lee.
Leading No. 2 Rojas opened the scoring with a double to the left, and No. 3 Huh Kyung-min hit a ground ball in front of the second base to make it one out and third. And No. 4 Jang Sung-woo hit Chirinos' 149km high fastball and hit a come-from-behind two-run shot over the left fence. The team quickly turned the tables 2-1. After changing the mood with this shot, KT ended up with a come-from-behind victory of five to one, and got off to a good start.
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The ball that hit the home run was quite a high ball. If you didn't hit it, it was a strange scene that you hit it and made it a home run. Jang Sung-woo said "The foreign pitcher (Chirinos) looked good because he was a ball that ran out of pitching, sliders, and folk balls. Still, I cut my hair, but he kept playing with that ball. But I was thinking about it because there was a data that showed that about 10% of fastballs were thrown only with high balls, so I was able to react"'Lohas hit a double, and Kyung-min hit a ground ball to the second base with a team batting, so I think I even hit a home run with the idea that I should hit an outfield fly to score points.'"
Jang is a strong hitter in scoring position. His batting average in scoring position is 271 (32 hits in 118 at-bats), which is not very good. However, his RBI in scoring position is 61 points, not much different from Kang Baek-ho (64 points). There are two sacrifice hits (bunt) and eight sacrifice flies. This means that he is good at hitting the situation.
He also said the reason for hitting well in the RBI situation was "I'm trying to hit according to the situation. "My juniors ask me a lot, but I always answer that I try to hit the situation." For example, I don't think you should hit a ball thrown by a left-handed pitcher and a ball thrown by a right-handed pitcher with the same hitting technique"As a result, I think I can concentrate more and have more RBIs in situations where there are runners or clutch situations," he said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
