Kia won the match, but is agonizing over the injury of Kim Do-young (21). The two teams also had an emotional battle over the situation of their clash with foreign hitter Jonathan Peraza of the Hanwha Eagles.메이저놀이터
KIA won 4-3 at the match against Hanwha in Gwangju on Saturday after a close game in the 10th inning of extra time. However, Kim Do-young was replaced after hitting a runner during the defense in the top of the eighth inning.
Kim Do-young, who started as a third baseman, caught Jang Jin-hyuk’s ground ball with two outs and runners on first and second bases when the score was 3-3. While getting up by catching a hit that bounced between the third base and the shortstop, he bumped into Hanwha’s second baseman Peraza, who was heading to third base.
The ball bounced in front of the third baseman, and Kim went a little forward to handle the ball. However, while running to third base, Peraza’s main line overlapped with Kim’s position. Peraza could not avoid it and collided.
Kim, who was raising her upper body by catching the ball, bumped her face without seeing Peraza, and her head bent backwards and fell backwards significantly. She fell hard to the ground and couldn’t stand up for a while.
Players from both teams gathered in surprise and stretchers were immediately put on the ground. The audience also shouted Kim Do-young’s name while watching her condition with bated breath. Kim Do-young suffered from a long period of collapse, but was not carried out and stood up and helped to the dugout.
However, he was substituted due to a logarithmic defense in the top of the ninth inning. “He was replaced due to dizziness after hitting his head,” Kia explained. As he fell backwards, his head was bent and his head hit the ground.
Afterwards, the scene in question came out in the top of the 10th inning. After one out, the second batter Peraza struck out three swinging pitches, he suddenly pointed a finger at the KIA dugout and shouted something. Hanwha’s chief coach Yang Seung-kwan took Peraza in, and even KIA manager Lee Bum-ho came out of the dugout and appealed to the referee with an embarrassing look on his face.
At the time Kim Do-young was injured and collapsed, it seems to be a protest against some KIA players’ dissatisfaction with Peraza’s base play as players from both sides gathered to look into their conditions.
In the top of the fifth inning, Kim Do-young caught a grounder to the third base with one out and runners on the first and second bases, tagged second baseman Jang Jin-hyuk, threw to the first base, and ended the inning with a double play. At this time, there was also a dangerous situation where second baseman Jang Jin-hyuk almost hit Kim Do-young, who was defending while running to third base. KIA players complained when the same situation happened to the same player twice.
In fact, there was no movement from the KIA dugout at the top of the 10th inning when Peraza was at bat. However, Peraza, who was displeased with the situation at the time at the top of the 8th inning, seems to have expressed his feelings toward the KIA dugout belatedly.
Kia has no choice but to be sensitive to the risk of injury to its core batter Kim Do-young. On Thursday, Kim was replaced by LG starter Hernandez’s 150-kilometer-per-hour fastball in the match against LG Electronics, raising concerns over his injury. Immediately after going to the hospital, he was diagnosed with a simple bruise, and participated in the match on the same day following the match against Hanwha on the following day. However, he collapsed in a dangerous scene during the match.
Kim returned home with dizziness even after the game. “I think I will have to check the condition after one night because I might have pain in my neck,” a source from Kia’s team said after the game.