KIA Tigers’ star Kim Do-young (21) made an unexpected confession. He made the remarks after a practice game against the Lotte Giants in Gwangju on Sunday. While preparing for the Korean Series, he naturally checks the postseason of other teams. He suddenly brought it up while talking about the first playoff game between the Samsung Lions.먹튀검증
Samsung beat the LG Twins 10-4 with home runs by Koo Ja-wook and Kim Young-woong in the first round of the playoffs. “I watched the game, and I thought for sure I didn’t know what would happen to baseball. I just thought Samsung hitters were good,” Kim said.
Samsung’s home stadium, Daegu Samsung Lions Park, is a batter-friendly stadium. Some batters say they can see the ball well in Lapak. For batters, the effect of a green background tree outside the central outfield entering the field of view cannot be ignored. This is because green and blue make people comfortable.
However, this is a case-by-case scenario. Kim said the opposite. “I can’t see the ball well at Lapak. It’s right that the stadium is close (to the outdoor venue), but I can’t see the ball well. We’ve got a few home runs at Lapak, but Abergee will not be good. It’s one of the stadiums where you can’t see the ball well, in my memory.”
Kim has some correct memories. He had 10 hits in 29 at-bats for a 0.345 batting average and three RBIs in seven games at Lapak this season. Despite his high batting average, Kim had a batting average of 0.347 this season. He hit just as much as he had average. Three home runs are not that many. He had four home runs in Daejeon and five in Gocheok. He even has the fewest RBIs among the nine stadiums in Korea. It is fair to remember that he had no ball at Lapak and his performance was also poor.
However, he did not have many homeruns and RBIs, and it is hard to say that he was weak at Lapak. According to Statistics Korea, Kim Do-young’s Lapak OPS for this season is 1.217 after Gocheok Dome with 1.422 and Daejeon with 1.361. Just because Lapak had fewer RBIs, his batting productivity did not decrease.
And since Kim has a batting average of 0.345 is just a normal number, and if most hitters in the league hit 0.345 at a specific stadium, it can be said that he was strong. Paradoxically, it also means that Kim has performed very well this year. If Kim had achieved this kind of performance when the ball was not visible, how much better would he be if the ball was visible? This is why he is the most valuable player in the regular season.
“If you have a good sense of play, you can see the ball well wherever you go. In fact, in the first season (2022), you didn’t see the ball at Champions Field. But this year, I saw some balls here.” Kim played in 70 games in Gwangju this year, posting a batting average of 0.339 with 16 homers and 48 RBIs with an OPS of 1.010.
Players who are not affiliated with Samsung play six to nine times a year at Lapak. The more Kim Do-young plays in Lapak, the less or less the ball is visible. If Samsung comes to the Korean Series, I wonder about Kim Do-young’s performance in Game 3 and 4.