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A ball that a person can't hit is a strike?
ABS, which was ambitiously introduced by KBO President Hu Jie-yeon last year for the first time among professional leagues around the world. This year, it is in its second season.
The purpose of introducing ABS was clear. Let's eliminate differences between the field and the referee over the decision of strikes and balls. Securing fairness was the most important thing in sports. It was also meaningful to ease the hardships of referees who were pressured to go to a psychiatric clinic.
From this point of view, the introduction of ABS is successful. Now, the coach or player and the referee fight with strike and ball decisions are completely gone. There is no need to protest. If you want to protest, you have to do it to the machine, which can't even understand or understand what you're saying. Fans who don't like to see ugly scenes such as fights with referees welcome ABS. It is very good in this respect as the number of young female fans and family fans is increasing exponentially recently.
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But when you approach the pure baseball side, you hear a little bit of voluminous sound over and over again. The manager of club A said, `It's not a baseball game, it's becoming a darts game", he commented. It may be a strike that everyone acknowledges, but if balls that are placed on four corners of the square are judged to be strikes, the batter can't hit them. However, the pitcher can't even hit the ball 'ultra-precision' for the ball, so luckily entering it will benefit. Like a game of darts. So the leading hitter of Team B feels like he's playing every at-bat after eating a strike. I was mentally shaken a lot for a while," he confessed.
So the manager of club C needs to cut corners in the ABS zone", he pointed out. If you look at the record judged by a real human referee, the strike zone is narrowed down to a long oval. But this is another dilemma. Baseball regulations state that a strike zone is a square. If the human referee's decision is the result of focusing on the standard of 'Ball that the batter can hit' even in the rectangular zone, the current problem is that the machine catches it without mercy if it passes through the strike zone specified by the regulations.
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Two decisions were noticeable in the match between the Samsung Lions and the Kiwoom Heroes in Daegu on the 20th. First, Kiwoom attack in the top of the first inning. Kiwoom scored one run with four consecutive hits and took a full base chance with one out. At the batter's box, Joo Sung-won. With 2S situation, a slider thrown by Furado flowed outwards. a ball visible to the naked eye. Even Kang Min-ho, who caught the ball, expected it to be a ball and tried to prepare for the next play, the referee's strikeout call came out. an absurd look on the face of the Lord. The bottom left end of the zone is over. The ABS system requires the ball to pass through both sides, and if the ball really touches the line, it is a strike. The broadcaster commented, "'Bat struck out on a ball that can't go out.'" Then came the strike decision because it was ABS"He also said. This means that it is a ball that is difficult to admit as a strike by anyone.
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Why was this important. It was the first game of the second half of both teams. Samsung ace Furado was extremely shaken from the start of the first inning. If Joo Sung-won hit a timely hit here, he could have completely brought the atmosphere by substituting Furado early. However, Kiwoom scored only one point in the first inning and led 7-3 but eventually lost 10-15.
Next is Kiwoom Choi Joo-hwan's at-bat in the top of the fourth inning. Choi Joo-hwan hit a timely hit after an unfair decision, and then Stone's home run came out, so it was okay, but it is important that this ball came in harder than Joo Sung-won's previous ball.
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With the ball count of 2B1S, when Furado's body fastball came in, Choi Joo-hwan leaned down to be hit by the ball, and Kang Min-ho threw himself into the reverse pitching and managed to catch the ball, but it was a strike. If you look at the ABS reading screen transmitted by the broadcasting company, it was such a fine ball that it came across the reference line that you really thought, "Oh, you can come in like that." The broadcaster who saw this ball also said, `A strike on the edge is a lucky strike. The pitcher also showed a subtle reaction, saying, "I didn't mean to throw it."
Indeed, KBO league clubs are recently changing their trend of recruiting foreign pitchers. It's because of ABS. Even if the ball control is bad, I prefer fast pitchers. This is because the balls that fly in are often judged to be struck where the batter cannot hit. Gamboa (Lotte), Garabito (Samsung), and Patrick (KT) are all similar types of replacements.
KBO downgraded the zone ahead of this season, saying the zone was set too high overall after its first implementation last year. It cannot be perfect, so it is a will to respond according to the situation. ABS, which has good points but also gives a feeling of breaking through the basics of baseball. What kind of wisdom will the KBO and President Hu Jie-yeon use. The outermost line seems to be able to think of complementary measures such as 「Strike only when more than half of the ball passes through」.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
