Lee Jung-hoo, who beat Ohtani's two-run shot, made a triple in the final of the re-game, and the MVP of the historical match 7LAD is a ruin
Jul 12, 2025
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San Francisco Giants' Lee Jung-hoo and LA Dodgers' Kim Hye-sung, two KBO players, faced off for the second time at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California on the 12th (Korea time), and hit three hits side by side, marking the most brilliant `Korean Day' in major league history.
Lee Jung-hoo led the game to an 8-7 victory by swinging three hits and three RBIs from four times at bat, including a come-from-behind final triple. In the MVP vote of the game conducted by MLB.com , he scored the highest by far and was selected as the "Player of the Game". Kim Hye-sung also responded threateningly with three hits, one run and two steals from four times at bat, but the team's defeat faded.
It is the first time that Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hye-sung have faced each other in the Major League since the second game of the season between the two teams at Dodger Stadium on June 15. At that time, Lee Jung-hoo was sluggish with no hits in four at-bats, and Kim Hye-sung hit one hit and one RBI in four at-bats, leading the Dodgers to win 11-5. This time, Lee Jung-hoo and San Francisco succeeded in revenge as if they saw each other.
Lee Jung-hoo, who had his second three hits in July following the Arizona Diamondbacks match on the 3rd, raised his batting average to 0.251 (85 hits in 339 at-bats) and returned to the .255 level for the first time in 16 days since the 27th of last month. In addition, the OPS was raised to 0.720.
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Analysts say that the two players succeeded in rebounding from the game. Lee Jung-hoo had a batting average of 0.355 (11 hits in 31 at-bats) in eight games in July. It's safe to say that I'm fully recovered. Kim Hye-sung shows signs of slump in July He went out as a pinch hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers on the 10th and recorded one hit and one stolen base in one at-bats, and then swung hard again on the day.
First, let's look at Lee Jung-hoo's performance. Lee Jung-hoo, who struck out in his first at-bat in the bottom of the second inning, turned the tide to 3-2 by hitting a superior triple in the second at-bat with one out and runners on first and second bases in the bottom of the fourth inning, trailing 1-2.
With a ball count of 2B2S, he pulled Dodgers starter Dustin May's 96.6-mile fastball into the fifth pitch, hitting his eighth triple of the season over the height of right fielder Teoscar Hernandez, bringing both Rafael Devers and Matt Chapman home.
In the fifth inning, he hit an infield hit on the first base with two outs and a third base lead of 7-2 to bring in Willy Adames, widening the gap to 8-2. Lee Jung-hoo's additional timely hit in the fifth inning was crucial to the victory because the Dodgers scored four points in the top of the sixth inning to chase by two points, and Mookie Betts advanced to third base in the seventh inning by taking advantage of a double to right-center and a mistake by center fielder Lee Jung-hoo, and added a point with Will Smith's critical hit to follow 7-8.
Lee Jung-hoo made a heavy hit in the bottom of the seventh inning with two outs to complete the three-hit game. Kim Hye-sung took the leadoff batter in the top of the third inning and hit a 90.3-mile high cutter on San Francisco ace Logan Webb's first pitch to steal second base, advanced to third base when Tommy Edman grounded out to first base and homered when Shohei Ohtani's superior two-run homer. The Dodgers turned the tide 2-1 with Ohtani's come-from-behind two-run shot.
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Kim Hye-sung added two stolen bases on the same day, leading to success in all 11 attempts to steal this season. Including Triple-A games, he has succeeded in all 24 steal attempts, marking a 100% success rate. Kim Hye-sung hit a left-handed double after two outs in the top of the eighth inning, but Edman stepped down as a mistake and couldn't advance further. After that, the Dodgers failed to catch up and eventually fell to their knees and fell into a swamp of seven consecutive losses. The most consecutive losses since the 11th consecutive defeat in early September 2017.
San Francisco, which played the first game of the last three consecutive games in the first half, marked 52 wins and 43 losses and kept second place in the NL West, narrowing its gap with the leading Dodgers (56 wins and 39 losses) to four games.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
