Sometimes, injury replacement, walk → steal → back pain, Kim Ha-sung's glass body image hardensTB 38 Chicago W

Jul 22, 2025

Sometimes, injury replacement, walk → steal → back pain, Kim Ha-sung's glass body image hardensTB 38 Chicago W
Tampa Bay Rays Kim Ha-sung is successfully stealing second base after walking on base in the bottom of the second inning in a home game against the Chicago White Sox on the 22nd (Korea time). AP Yonhap News



Sometimes, injury replacement, walk → steal → back pain, Kim Ha-sung's glass body image hardensTB 38 Chicago W
Kim Ha-sung throws to first base when defending in the top of the second inning. AFP Yonhap News
If you do this, you'll be branded as a "glass body".

Tampa Bay Rays' Kim Ha-sung was replaced due to back pain during the game.

Kim Ha-sung started as the sixth shortstop in a home game against the Chicago White Sox at Steinbrenner Field on the 22nd (Korea time) and then stepped down to the bench ahead of the fourth inning.




Kim Ha-sung, who entered the batter's box as a leadoff hitter in the bottom of the second inning, trailing 0-3, succeeded in stealing second base after getting on base with a walk. At ball count 3B1S, White Sox right-hander Sean Burke's 86.5-mile slider on the fifth pitch fell out, just watching and walking out.

Then, as soon as Christopher Morell struck out swinging, Kim Ha-sung, who ran to second base, was comfortably safe.

Sometimes, injury replacement, walk → steal → back pain, Kim Ha-sung's glass body image hardensTB 38 Chicago W
Kim Ha-sung is succeeding in stealing second base in the second inning. AFP Yonhap News
Just before that, Kim Ha-sung made an active move, sliding back to first base in response to Burke's surprise check When Morel struck out swinging on the third pitch, he took advantage of it to run to second base. Kim Ha-sung, who had headfirst sliding, showed no abnormal symptoms.




After the inning ended without further advancing, Kim Ha-sung threw the leadoff Lewis Robert Jr. out of the second base and threw it back to first base when Coulson Montgomery grounded out to first base with one out and runners on first and third in defense in the top of the third inning, but the batter was safe. The throw was somewhat inaccurate, so the double play was not completed.

Then, ahead of the defense in the top of the fourth inning, trailing 0-6, Tampa Bay excluded Kim Ha-sung and used Jose Caballero as shortstop. Racebaseball, which was in charge of the local broadcast, announced that `Tampa Bay club replaced Kim Ha-sung with stiff symptoms in his lower back.'

Kim Ha-sung, who joined Tampa Bay after a month-long minor league rehabilitation game on the 5th, has been showing frequent replacements and irregular appearances with injuries to his shoulder, hamstring and calf. On this day, back pain occurred.




Since returning, Kim Ha-sung has a batting average of 0.226 (7 hits in 31 at-bats), one home run, three RBIs, three runs, four walks, four steals, and an OPS of 0.669 in 10 games.

Tampa Bay lost 3-8, losing two in a row after two consecutive wins in the second half.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.