When you ask hitters about the most difficult hit to make, the answer will usually be “triple.”
He has to go beyond his ability to enter the realm of luck. Making deep balls that poke into corners that outfielders can hardly catch is a basic rule. Various factors, including the shoulders of fielders and their own base running, must be added to prevent such balls from being blocked. There are many cases in which a batter who makes a single hit, a double, or a home run fails to achieve a great cycling hit due to lack of a triple.안전놀이터
However, there was a player who made such a difficult triple not once, but consecutive at-bats.
The main character is the KIA Tigers’ right-handed slugger Byun Woo-hyuk. Byun made a triple in the bottom of the eighth inning with his team leading 5-1 against the Doosan Bears in Gwangju on the 26th, and then made a triple that separates the right-center in his first at-bat against NC in Changwon on the 28th.
Both times, luck followed. In the match against Doosan, it became a triple when right fielder Henry Ramos tried to catch a diving catch but the ball fell backward. In the match against NC, the powerful hit to the right-center field fell on the boundary between the center fence and the right fence, which is the farthest from Changwon NC Park.
As you can see from the title “Uta Goupo,” Byun is a slow-footed hitter. Since joining the Hanwha Eagles in the first round of the 2019 KBO Rookie Draft, he has not stolen a single base so far. His first luck against Doosan on Wednesday was his first triple since his professional debut. The energy that continued to Changwon even led to a run that followed Han Jun-su’s fly ball to right field.
Byun Woo-hyuk’s consecutive three-base hit was the 41st in the KBO league. The most recent consecutive three-base hit was set by Kiwoom Heroes Kim Hye-sung at the match against Hanwha in Gocheok on May 21, 2022.