“Thank you, Flexen.
Kim Ha-seong of the San Diego Padres of the American Major League Baseball (MLB) added another hit the hard way. He met a pitcher with whom he has formed a ‘nemesis’ relationship since his days in Korea and hit a hit in the United States.
On the 8th (KST), Kim Ha-seong started at shortstop for the Padres’ home game against the Seattle Mariners at Petco Park in San Diego, California, USA.토토사이트
On the day, San Diego was playing well, but Kim was not. San Diego scored in four consecutive innings, from the second to the fifth, to take a commanding 8-0 lead after five innings.
However, Kim did not contribute to the team’s scoring at all. He struck out three times in the fifth inning.
In the bottom of the inning, with his team leading 1-0, Kim faced Kirby with runners on first and second and struck out swinging. In the bottom of the third inning, with the score 4-0 and Kim feeling more comfortable, he struck out Kirby again with runners on second and third.
The fifth inning was even better, with a 5-0 lead and Kim coming to the plate after Cronenwirth singled and Carpenter walked. A wild pitch from pitcher Bresch followed. With runners on second and third, Chungeum had a chance to score. However, Kim struck out again on a 2B2S play, killing his own chances.
At least he could smile for once. Kim came up to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning with his team leading 8-0. Coincidentally, Chris Flexen was on the mound for Seattle. Flexen is a former Doosan Bears pitcher who spent the 2020 season in a Doosan Bears uniform before being traded to Seattle and becoming part of the KBO’s reverse export myth. More recently, he’s been pitching out of the bullpen due to lack of competition, and that’s where he ran into Kim Ha-seong, a former opponent from South Korea.
In the 2020 season, Kim had a strong showing against Flexen for the Kiwoom Heroes, going 2-for-3 with a double, home run, and two RBIs. On this day, he took a first-pitch pitch from Flexen and turned it into a single to break up a three-strikeout streak.
Kim advanced to third on the next batter’s single and a wild pitch by Flexen, and scored the hard way on a grounder by Fernando Tatis Jr.
Meanwhile, Kim, who was retired on an infield grounder in his final at-bat in the eighth inning, finished the game 1-for-5. His season batting average dropped from 2-for-4 to 2-for-6. San Diego held on to the early lead to win the game 10-3.