LG Twins ‘captain’ Kim Hyun-soo will play a key role in the second half of the KBO season. “I just need to do well,” Kim emphasized.
LG finished the first half in second place. They are 3.5 games behind leader Kia. Doosan in third and Samsung in fourth are close behind. LG, which is trying to win the title for the second consecutive year, will be chasing the top spot as injured players return in the second half.
Kim Hyun-soo, who played in the KBO All-Star Game at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on June 6, reflected on the first half: “It was a little difficult for the team and for me. I think the other players on the team did a good job, and I think it was difficult for the team because, like this year, there were times when I did a little better and times when I did not. I’ll try to work on it so that I can get back on track in the second half of the season and do well.”
Kim Hyun-soo changed his batting form from a leg kick to a no-leg kick before the season.
From the start of the season until the end of April, he was 3-for-2, but his batting average dropped to 2-for-6 in May. In the last 10 games of the first half, he was just 1-for-8 (7-for-37). Kim Hyun-soo, who had failed to hit .300 in three straight years, finished the first half 2-for-9.
“I feel like I’m hitting well, but there are a lot of pitches that are going straight at me (defense). I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘what’s wrong with me,’ but there’s only one way to hit it without going straight. The hitting point came in a little bit more than before because I didn’t lift my legs. .
I’m still hitting it accurately, 실시간 바카라사이트 but when I hit it from the inside, it seems like I’m hitting a lot of frontal shots, so I’m thinking that I need to put (the hitting point) a little further in front.”
Kim took over the captain’s armband from Oh in mid-April. There are many things to take care of as a team leader. Did the burden of captaincy affect his personal performance? “It hasn’t affected me. I don’t want to blame my poor baseball performance on the captaincy, because it’s a position that I have to take responsibility for, and I don’t want to blame it on the captaincy. It’s hard, but it’s hard because of separate things from baseball, so I will prepare to do well in baseball.”
You are 3.5 games behind first-place KIA.
When asked how long he thinks it will take to catch up, Kim said, “It’s a long way away. I believe all the players will do well, and I just need to do well,” said Kim.
“Jihwan and Wontae are all plus factors, so it’s not that the original players weren’t good, but I think they filled in really well. I think they filled in the gaps that were so hard, so I think the returning players must have felt sorry for them, but I think they will do well as much as they feel sorry,” he said, adding that he expects the returning players to have a positive effect.