Bears Uta Big Gun Born In 24 Years, Started...the season's first home run explosion

Apr 02, 2025

Bears Uta Big Gun Born In 24 Years, Started...the season's first home run explosion
In the game between Kiwoom and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 2nd, Doosan Yang Seok-hwan hits a first solo home run and shares his joy. Jamsil = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2025.04.02/



Yang Seok-hwan (34) of the Doosan Bears hit his first home run of the season.

Yang Seok-hwan started the game against the Kiwoom Heroes at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 2nd.

Yang Seok-hwan, who took the batter's box as the leadoff batter in the bottom of the second inning when the score was 0-0, hit Kiwoom starter Yoon Hyun's first pitch fastball as it came to the top of the strike zone and crossed the left fence. The distance was 115 meters. The speed of the ball was 157.5 kilometers and the angle of launch was measured at 28 degrees.




Yang Seok-hwan played in 142 games last year and recorded a batting average of 246, 34 home runs, 107 RBIs, and an OPS (long hit rate + on base rate) of 0.804.

It is the 11th record of 30 home runs-100 RBIs in Bears history and the third among the right-handed hitters of Bears history after Shim Jung-soo in 1999 and Kim Dong-joo in 2000.

Bears Uta Big Gun Born In 24 Years, Started...the season's first home run explosion
In the game between Kiwoom and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 2nd, Yang Seok-hwan of Doosan hits the first solo home run in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Jamsil = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2025.04.02/





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.