San Francisco beat the San Diego Padres 3-2 in the 2024 MLB regular season at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on the 8th (Korea time). Lee Jung-hoo, who played as San Francisco’s first hitter-center fielder, scored one hit and one run in four times at bat, and Kim Ha-sung, who played as San Diego’s fifth hitter-striker, scored one hit and one RBI in four times at bat.
Lee, whose batting average for this season plunged to .200 (7 hits in 35 times at bat) by recording just one walk during 12 at-bats in the previous three games, reported a hit in four games at his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning. In the face of Matt Waldron, the “knuckle bowler” who started San Diego, Lee hit a 92.6 mph fastball for the fifth pitch at the count of 2-2, leading to a critical hit that separates the gap. When Jorge Soler’s double hit the third batter, Lee advanced to third base but failed to enter the home ground due to an unsuccessful follow-up hit.
When his younger brother Lee Jung-hoo reported the hit first, his brother Kim Ha-sung responded. After hitting a fly ball to left in the first inning and a grounder to shortstop in the fourth inning, Kim Ha-sung reported a hit and an RBI in his third at-bat in the sixth inning. With runners on the first and third bases with one out in the top of the sixth inning, Kim Ha-sung missed San Francisco starter Logan Webb’s second pitch changeup mistake, and hit a timely hit to the left field. Kim Ha-sung’s timely hit gave San Diego a two-run lead.
Since then, however, Kim has made two errors that serve as the cause for his defeat. After catching a head-on hit by Lee Jung-hoo, the first batter in the bottom of the sixth inning, Kim made an absurd mistake by throwing high pitches that the first baseman could not catch. Afterwards, San Francisco created a grand slam chance with Ramonte Wade Jr. and Michael Confoto’s walk, and recovered one point with Matt Chapman’s grounder to shortstop. Kim’s error led to the score.
The error in the eighth inning was even more fatal. Jake Cronenworth, the first baseman who caught the ball that Confoto hit with one out and runners at the first and third bases, stepped on the base and threw it to the second base to attempt a double play. Kim Ha-sung, who came in to cover the second base, caught the ball while holding the throw and tagging runner Soler, and the third baseman stepped home during the period, tying the game 2-2. Kim appealed to the referee by saying, “The runner interfered with the defense.” However, it was not accepted, and eventually, he made two mistakes in one game for the first time since his big league debut.
With two outs and a runner on the third base, San Francisco turned the game around with Chapman’s timely hit. Having recorded two wins and two losses against San Diego in the previous four consecutive games, San Francisco took the winning series with two wins and one loss in the opening three consecutive games at home.
Meanwhile, Lee Jung-hoo, who reported a hit for the first time in a long time, slightly raised his batting average for the season to 0.205 (8 hits in 39 times at bat). Kim Ha-sung, whose batting average was almost broken in both sides, also saw his batting average rise slightly to 0.205 (9 hits in 44 times at bat) for the se
BY: 토토사이트
