Good Kang Jung-ho is really the first in LG's history? ...I raised the 4th hitter in the top class that will go down in history
Aug 24, 2025
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LG Twins' No. 4 hitter Moon Bo-kyung is on the verge of the club's first history. For the second consecutive year, he had only one RBI left until his 100 RBIs.
In the history of LG, there has been no batter who has achieved 100 RBIs for two consecutive years. Kim Hyun-soo has achieved 100 RBIs three times in 2018, 2020 and 2022, the most in the club's history, but he has never achieved 100 RBIs in consecutive seasons.
Moon Bo-kyung began his path as the fourth hitter in 2024. He became a built-in hitter in earnest starting this year. He had a batting average of 0.301 (156 hits in 519 at-bats), 22 homers, and 101 RBIs in 144 games last year. He has a batting average of 0.292 (125 hits in 428 at-bats), 24 homers and 99 RBIs in 116 games this season. Home runs have already broken career high records, and RBI is also only a matter of time before achieving career high.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop compared Moon Bo-kyung to Kang Jung-ho (retired). Kang Jung-ho was forced to retire in disgrace after being struck out three times for drunk driving, but his talent was real. He is a shortstop, with a total of 902 KBO games, a batting average of 0.298 (916 hits in 3070 at-bats), 139 home runs, and 545 RBIs. From 2015 to 2019, he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the U.S. Major League Baseball, hitting .254 (233 hits in 917 at-bats), 46 homers, and 144 RBIs in 297 games.
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Moon Bo-kyung started as the fourth batter and third baseman against the Gwangju KIA Tigers on the 23rd and scored one hit and one RBI in four times at bat, helping him win 6-2. It was a fault that he made a ground ball catch error and a throwing error in the second and third innings, respectively, but starter Lim Chan-kyu did not lose a point and overcame the crisis, easing the burden on Moon Bo-kyung.
Moon Bo-kyung will now become the first batter in LG's history to hit 100 RBIs for two consecutive years if one more runner is called in. It can be seen as the first step in establishing itself as the fourth hitter that will remain in LG's history.
Coach Yeom said, `Moon Bo-kyung will now be a player who consistently achieves 100 RBIs. The first virtue of batting fourth is 100 RBIs. Now, he is a Korean player who can consistently hit 100 RBIs as LG's fourth batter. I think I'm going to do more than 110 RBIs this year. He also said, "It's already growing." He did not doubt that the future would shine brighter than the present of Moon Bo-kyung, who was born in 2000.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
