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What is the limit of Kia’s “genius hitter” Kim Do-young (21)?
Kia took the lead with Kim Do-young’s two-run home run and maintained their lead with two consecutive wins, celebrating the home crowd exceeding one million.
In the home game against SSG held at Kia Champion Stadium in Gwangju on the 28th, Kia won 7-6, leading second-place Samsung by 5.5 games. Their record against SSG is also 6 wins and 8 losses.
Kim Do-young, who continues to break many records this season, excited the home fans with his bat on this day.
After Kia was out in the bottom of the first inning, Socrates took advantage of a pitching error by SSG shortstop Park Seong-han to reach first base. With one out, third batter Kim Do-young pulled out SSG starting pitcher Song Young-jin’s second pitch inside fastball (140 km/h) and flew over the left side wall. The moment the ball hit the bat, the impact was so strong that everyone in the baseball stadium knew it was a home run. It was the 33rd home run of the season.
With this home run, Kim Do-young, who turned 20 years, 10 months and 26 days old on that day, broke the record for the youngest player to hit home runs in a season (32). In 1997, he was beaten by “national batsman” Lee Seung-yeop (current Doosan head coach, 21 years and 1 month old).
Kim Do-young also set a new record for the most runs in the team’s history when the team was leading 5-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning. Kim Do-young, who reached third base with a single after one out, took advantage of the opponent’s pitcher’s crazy pitch and scored an extra run when Choi Hyung-woo hit the ball to the right. Kim Do-young, who scored two runs that day, became the team’s highest scorer in a single season with 119 runs that season, surpassing Roger Bernardina (118 runs) in 2017. Kim Do-young is the only player to score three digits, and he is 27 points ahead of second-place Rojas (KT, 92 runs) and is expected to win the top scorer award.
Kia tied the score at 3-3 with home runs by Ha Jae-hoon and Oh Tae-kun in the top of the 4th inning, but took the lead again with a timely hit by Socrates in the bottom of the 4th inning. In the 5th and 6th innings, Kia scored one more run with timely hits by Choi Won-jun and Choi Hyung-woo, and another run in the 7th inning.
The closing pitcher, Jung Hae-young, who was leading comfortably 7-3, unexpectedly allowed Ha Jae-hoon to hit a 3-run home run, and the score was narrowed to 1 run, but he still managed to hold on to the victory.
On that day, a total of 13,155 spectators entered the Kia Champions League Stadium, bringing the total number of spectators this season to 1,002,150, breaking the one million mark. This is the second time in the club’s history that the number of spectators has exceeded one million, following 2017.
Samsung beat Kiwoom 9-5 in Gocheok, winning three games in a row. Samsung took the lead in the first inning with Park Byung-ho’s three-run homer, and then led 6-2 in the fourth inning with captain Koo Ja-wook’s 23rd two-run homer. In the top of the seventh inning, when the team was leading 7-5, Kim Ji-chan’s 2-RBI triple opened the scoring.
Samsung veteran Oh Seung-hwan, who recently returned to the second team, came on base in the 4th inning and won the game with 1 hit, 2 strikeouts, and no runs, winning his 3rd game (7 losses, 27 losses). Samsung’s lead over LG, which lost to KT in the 3rd inning on the same day, has expanded to 3 games.
After a fierce battle until the 10th inning, KT defeated LG 8-4 and maintained the fifth place. KT scored 4 runs in the top of the 10th inning, tying the score at 4-4, including 4 hits and 2 bases.
Hanwha, which entered the semifinals, defeated Lotte 7-0, and fourth-place Doosan defeated NC 9-1. On that day, 69,559 people flocked to five stadiums across the country, and the cumulative number of spectators exceeded 9 million after 610 games. This is the first time that the number of spectators has exceeded 9 million since the KBO league was launched in 1982.
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