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| Ha-seong Kim. © AFP=News1 |
Kim Ha-seong, 26, missed the chance to take a turn, and could not present the victory to the San Diego Padres.
On the 6th (Korean time), Kim Ha-sung made a three-stroke no-hit and one strikeout in the MLB home game against the San Francisco Giants at Petco Park in San Diego, California, USA. Kim Ha-sung’s batting average fell from 0.333 to 0.222.
San Diego was beaten by San Francisco with three homers on the same day and lost 2-3. Darin Ruff, who played for the Samsung Lions from 2017 to 2019, went out to San Francisco’s fifth hitter left field and hit a home run in the beginning of the second.
San Diego, which won the opening three consecutive wins, has since lost its momentum with a second straight victory. The ride was 1 match against the Los Angeles Dodgers (4 wins 1 loss), the leader of the National League’s western division.
Kim Ha-seong, who was excluded from the starting lineup for two consecutive games, got a chance to play due to the injury of Fernando Tatis Jr. in the beginning of the fourth inning.
Tatis Jr. complained of severe left shoulder pain after striking out in the second at-bat after one shot at the end of the third inning. It was difficult to continue playing, so he left the ground with the support of the trainer.
“Tatis Jr. has been replaced with a subluxation of the left shoulder,” San Diego said. “We are going to undergo a close examination tomorrow.” Subluxation refers to a state in which a part of the joint surface facing the ball head and the joint maintains contact but is incomplete.
It was the longest playing time after the Arizona Diamondbacks on the 4th, when Kim Ha-sung was the only starting player. In the games on the 2nd and 5th, only one at bat was digested with a pinch, and the game on the 3rd was missed.
But the grades weren’t good. He stood at the plate with runners, but they all ended up hitting.
Ha-sung Kim picked a ball from the first base of the 5th inning, behind by 1-2, and hit Anthony Desclapany’s 94 mile sinker, but was out with a floating ball at shortstop.
The second at-bat was disappointing.
At the end of the sixth inning, San Diego tied 2-2 with Propa Jurickson’s triple and Victor Karatini’s sacrifice, and the game turned to the starting point, creating a chance to reverse with a consecutive hit by Craig Stammen and Jake Cronenworth.
Ha-seong Kim, who stood at the plate, calmly watched the two balls against Caleb Baraga. He then hit Baraga’s 92 mph fastball, but the result was a first baseman flyout. Losing a chance to play, San Diego immediately allowed a home run to pinch-hit Mike Yastrmsky in the beginning of the 7th.
After one death at the end of the ninth inning, Kim Ha-sung was given a third chance of hitting. Ha-Sung Kim struggled with Jake McGee’s 94-96 mile fastball. He swung a bat at McGee’s 95-mile fastball in a 1-ball, 2-strike, but retreated with a missed swing strikeout.