Baseball is just a ball game, and Kim Ji Chan is missing... Injured Jeon Min-jae If it weren't for the leading heater, what would it have been like, a change of heart that awakened a small giant
May 01, 2025
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Kim Ji Chan and Kim Sung Yoon. Club officials hint that `Kim Sung-yoon is a little big.'
Great players who are giving hope to short baseball dreamers. He is called a "little giant" and goes around the ground by maximizing his strengths.
This season, he was greatly increasing his team's offense through his joint performance.
But it's unfortunate. Kim Ji-chan was excluded from the first-team entry ahead of the match against Incheon SSG Landers on the 30th of last month due to his hamstring.
Kim Ji-chan started as the first center fielder against Incheon SSG on the 29th, but was replaced by Kim Heon-gon immediately after hitting a ground ball in the first inning. A Samsung official explained that he was replaced because he felt uncomfortable with his left hamstring during the first inning. Second hamstring pain this season. Kim Ji-chan was on the 10-day injured list due to left hamstring pain on the 10th. He returned on the 20th, but his injury was relieved again in 10 days.
Kim Ji-chan continued to play in 18 games this season, hitting .354 with a on-base percentage of .432 and stealing seven times.
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Kim Sung-yoon, who started as the second center fielder at Incheon SSG Landers on the 30th, hit a superior solo home run that almost became the winning home run through Cho Byung-hyun's fastball in the 10th inning of extra time when the score was 4-4. After two outs in the top of the 11th inning of extra time, he completed his second four-hit game this season by making a chance to the end with a left-handed hit. Kim Sung-yoon, who recorded a batting average of 393 for the season, brought down Lotte Cinderella Jeon Min-jae, who was out due to a dune injury, ranked first in the batting average and became a leading heater.
He has a batting average of 488 (20 hits in 41 times at bat) in the last 10 games, approaching 500. Two four-hit games and two home runs of the season have all come from the last 10 games.
an all-weather striker who can't do anything. He makes infield hits from time to time with his fast feet. As many as 10 out of 35 hits were infield hits, ranking first in this category. It's not just feet that are fast. Ten hits are long balls such as home runs, doubles, and triples. He has a slugging percentage of 0.573. He ranks among the top five hitters in slugging percentage along with outstanding big guns such as Darz Wisdom, Austin, and Park Dong-won.
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Kim Sung-yoon, who seemed to break the egg with a batting average of 0.3214 in 101 games in 2023. However, in the aftermath of the injury, including knee ligament damage during the game in May last year, he was in trouble again, hitting a batting average of 0.243 in 32 games.
A vicious hard worker who comes out and trains earlier than others. The solution to opening the eyes was to clear the mind. Song Eun-beom's words "Play baseball with a positive smile" changed Kim Sung-yoon's mind. I decided to try my best but not to dwell too much on the results. I made up my mind to enjoy myself on the ground. He has enough room to hum his cheering song at the batter's box.
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On his helmet, Kim Seong-yoon wrote Admiral Yi Sun-shin's 'If you want to live, you will die, if you want to die, you will live.'" 'Lightly and lightly' is also written. I can guess how you feel about the game.
a great realization. He is also practicing sharing with his juniors. "(Kim) Young-woong often tells him to approach baseball differently." Kim Sung-yoon said "Baseball is simply 'Playing ball' We talked about setting up our minds so that we could enjoy the moment we played baseball." Thanks to Kim Sung-yoon's advice, Kim Young-woong expressed his gratitude after escaping from the slump.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
