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| The pledge not to throw a bat on a bad ball collapsed again. Puig, who struck out in his first at-bat in the second inning, entered the dugout and looked at the ABS tablet PC and recalled his failure. Photo = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com |
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The batting average for the season remains at 0.204, and the batting average in April fell to 0.145.
This is the current status of Kiwoom's foreign hitter Yasiel Puig. There is no choice but to shake inside and outside. However, Hong Won-ki said, `We are not yet in the stage to discuss success or failure with the decision to go with two foreign hitters. Puig is trying to fix the problem by communicating with the batting coach. I think we're heading in a good direction."
Puig immediately repaid the expectations of the head coach who believed in him, who was criticized. Puig started in a home game against the Doosan Bears at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 22nd and fired a cool two-run shot, helping the team win.
My first at-bat was disappointing.
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| Puig | who strikes out with three consecutive swings and misses at his first at-bat
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Puig said in an interview after the game that `I have swung and missed a lot due to bad balls. Today, I came forward with the idea of `playing only the ball that comes into the zone', but the pledge collapsed from the first at-bat. He was struck out on three pitches by swinging heavily on a first-pitch fastball attached to the body's borderline, a fork ball falling to the ground, and a fork ball that deviated greatly outside.
The first at-bat that he was embarrassed to see as well. Puig couldn't raise his head at all. He had no choice but to head to the dugout, blaming himself.
Puig, who took off his helmet, immediately headed to where the ABS tablet PC was placed. I could see acrimoniously how much the bat was wasted on 'bad ball'. Will the second at-bat be different?
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| Puig looks sideways at catcher Meath after enduring his third pitch high ball. |
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Puig took the batter's box for the second time in the bottom of the third inning with two outs and a runner on first base. Puig, who let go of a full first-pitch curve in the outside strike zone, put up with the two bad balls that came in afterwards. The bat was fixed and only the eyes were turned on the two balls outside the strike zone.
Let's put up with it, the opportunity has come. He swung the bat powerfully without missing a real pitch entering the top of the strike zone in the fourth pitch.
Puig looking at the ball flying towards the left fence. With restrained movements, he held the bat with both hands and waited until the moment the home run was confirmed.
Puig threw the bat humbly. I kept my promise to myself that I wouldn't put the bat on the 'bad ball'.
Puig's yellow sushi head, which took off his helmet, shone. Colleagues were also enthusiastic about Puig's cool home run for the first time in a long time.
Puig, wearing a home run hat and passing through the high-five tunnel, hugged the team staff fiercely. The staff unintentionally kissed the wild horse on the cheek. Anyway, it couldn't help but be a good scene to watch.
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| Puig is serious |
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Puig thanked his fans for supporting him in an interview with Su-hoon after the game. Coach Hong Won-ki expressed his faith in Puig, who is working hard, saying, `Unlike 2022, Puig is very serious now.'
Puig was also sluggish in the first half of 2022, but he played a big part in the second half and the postseason. Let's see if Puig, who is more mature than three years ago, can succeed in rebounding again this time.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
