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| KBO League match between Samsung and KIA at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 23rd. KIA Kim Do-young hit a come-from-behind two-run homer in the eighth inning. Daegu=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.23/ |
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30 home runs for 2 consecutive years, I thought it was impossible...
KIA Tigers' Kim Do-young emerged as the best star in the KBO League last year with unexpected and unbelievable performances.
He has a batting average of 347, 38 homers, 109 RBIs, 143 runs and 40 steals in 141 games. Even if KIA did not win the championship, it was overwhelmingly worth the MVP, but since the team won the championship thanks to Kim Do-young, it became the "Kim Do-young's Year" that swept all the awards.
Even ahead of this season, there were only rosy prospects. KIA was evaluated to be the 'absolute first place' due to the upgraded power of Kim Do-young. In addition, Kim Do-young will try to join the 40-home run-40 steal club, the only homework she failed to solve last year, and there were many predictions that it could be achieved.
But what's wrong with this. I hurt my hamstring in the opening game. It took more than a month of treatment and rehabilitation. It can't be said to be because of Kim Do-young, but KIA failed to show the appearance of 'Never 1st place' from the beginning and crashed. Obviously, Kim Do-young's injury could not have been affected.
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| The opening match between NC and KIA at Gwangju KIA Champions Field on the 22nd, KIA Kim Do-young is complaining of leg pain while hitting a hit and going to first base in the bottom of the third inning. Kim Do-young has been replaced by Yoon Do-hyun. Gwangju = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.03.22/ |
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He came back healthy, but KIA is still struggling. As of the 26th, it is in eighth place. Of course, there are only two games against the fourth-place KT Wiz, so you can turn the tide at any time, but there have been a lot of differences with top teams, and the recent performance and two-stroke balance shows that the future prospects are not very bright. In a bad atmosphere, injuries are occurring one after another. He won the first game of the three consecutive games against the Samsung Lions on an important weekend, lost two games, and dedicated the winning series. The final game collapsed in the ninth inning when Diaz allowed a shock walk-off home run.
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| KBO League match between Samsung and KIA at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 25th. KIA Kim Do-young hit a first solo home run against Samsung's Won Tae-in in the top of the first inning. Kim Do-young, who is being congratulated by his teammates in the dugout. Daegu=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.25/ |
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Still, Kim Do-young gives hope. Starting with the KT Wiz match on the 22nd, he hit home runs in four consecutive games until the three consecutive Samsung games. Since I went to Daegu, where home runs are good, I can say I hit a home run, but anyone who has seen Kim Do-young's home run will not be able to say that. They were all balls that would be passed to Jamsil, not Daegu. This means that he worked well and created a powerful hit. There was no home run in four consecutive games last season. For the first time in his career, he will try to hit a home run in five consecutive games against the Kiwoom Heroes on the 27th.
Now that KIA has played 50 games, Kim Do-young has seven home runs. The one-month gap was too big. Compared to last year, the number of home runs is shabby. If calculated arithmetically through a simple proportional expression, up to 20 home runs are possible.
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| The KBO League match between Samsung and KIA at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 24th. KIA Kim Do-young hit a solo home run against Samsung Kim Tae-hoon in the seventh inning. Kim Do-young is running around the ground vigorously. Daegu=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.24/ |
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However, if it's Kim Do-young, it's a different story. What's scary about Kim Do-young is that once he catches fire, he continues to hit it. It would have been difficult to recover the sense of practice if he returned after a long hiatus, but after returning, he played for a month and now has a 100% sense of play. The calculation is a calculation, and if you shoot a home run with a sense of fire, you can be more than 20 and try 30 home runs for two consecutive years. Due to a hamstring injury, he may not be able to steal as actively as he did last year, but he began to steal multiple bases against Samsung on the 24th. For the second consecutive year, a 30-30 club is not an impossible goal at all. Of course, prevention of injury recurrence is the most important.
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| KBO League match between Samsung and KIA at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 24th. KIA Kim Do-young is batting. Daegu=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.24/ |
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
