His ball control was not a mistake. A 149-kilometer-per-hour fastball thrown by Hanwha foreign pitcher Weiss almost hit the top line of the strike zone. The recommended course is based on the ABS (automatic ball determination system) that is generous to the high zone to the maximum. Moreover, it was a slightly farther course for right-handed hitters.
However, Kia’s Kim Do-young’s bat reacted as fast as a thunderbolt. The angle of the hit close to the line drive. When the hit left Kim’s bat, it seemed to be on the right-wing line like a double. However, the hit continued and stopped flying only after hitting the stand inside the right pole.
It was in the top of the fifth inning of the match between KIA and Hanwha in Daejeon on last Thursday. While trailing 2-3, Kia continued its lead by 4-3 with Kim Do-young’s superior two-run homer (distance running 110 meters) with one out and runners on second base, then won 7-3, and escaped its fourth consecutive loss.메이저사이트
Since the opening of this season, 1,014 home runs have popped in the KBO League until the 30th. There are familiar combination scenes that come to mind when it comes to home runs. For example, they draw a large parabolic arch by pulling a slider that is pushed into the center and is flat.
Considering this, Kim also has a special way of producing home runs. At a time when his ball count was 2-2, he reacted quickly to a so-called high-fast ball that flew properly, creating a superior “straight-line home run” in the match against Hanwha.
As of the 3rd, Kim Do-young hit 29 home runs and hit six superior home runs (including one right-center). Each of the six superior home runs is infused with Kim Do-young’s own batting style. The superior home run he hit against Lotte in Sajik on June 27 was also made in response to the 149km fastball. He pushed a fastball over the right fence that seemed to be caught in Lotte right-hander Lee Min-seok’s outer borderline. On June 21, his first grand slam in the match against LG in Gwangju also hit a 149km fastball by LG’s foreign left-hander, Ence, and turned it over the right fence.
Prior to that, the right-center home run against KT closer Park Young-hyun in the match against Suwon KT on June 16 was also launched in response to a 149km fastball, making right-hand home runs on fastballs such as 142km fastballs (Kim Min-soo) and 146km fastballs (Kim Jae-yeol), respectively, in the match against Gwangju KT on May 31 and Gwangju NC on May 29.
Kim has repeatedly hit home runs that look similar to his fastballs with high-speed swings. These are scenes that show Kim’s fast response capability, which can be known as “fastball hunter.”
According to Sports2I, an official record company in the KBO League, Kim Do-young ranks fifth in the average hitting speed of 143.3 kilometers this season, and his fastball hitting speed is rising to 146 kilometers. While the batting average of the fastball is shining at 0.405, the batting average of the fastball hits is as high as 0.800. On top of that, there is a 35.7% probability of producing a line drive by hitting a fastball, and the average launch angle is 25.6 degrees, and the range of 25 to 35 degrees where the home run is good.
The fact that Kim is strong in fastballs is already universal data in the KBO League. However, pitchers cannot afford to throw away fastballs. As Kim raises his slider batting average to 0.372, the second half of this season where pitchers gradually decrease.