Korean big leaguer Kim Ha-seong (28) failed to prevent the San Diego Padres from losing two games in a row, leaving disappointing results in the operation situation.메이저놀이터
San Diego lost 3-4 in an away game against the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) San Francisco Giants held at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California on the 21st (Korean time). With a 3-1 lead, the bullpen didn’t listen from the 7th inning and eventually lost again.
Kim Ha-seong, who started as the 7th batter and second baseman that day, recorded 1 hit in 4 at-bats, maintaining the season batting average at 0.250 (54 hits in 216 at-bats) as before.
It was in the top of the fourth inning that he got one hit. Kim Ha-seong succeeded in getting on base with a right-handed hit in the 4th inning, the second at-bat. He stepped on third base on a hit by follow-up hitter Trent Grisham, giving him a chance to score.
San Diego hitter Austin Nola. Instead of trusting Nola’s bat, which has been sluggish this season, San Diego came up with a strategy. Kim Ha-seong rushed home, and Nola tried to produce an RBI with a squeeze bunt.
However, the operation did not work out as expected. He failed to land a surprise bunt, and Ha-seong Kim, who had already started, became prey for the San Francisco defense. In the end, he was caught on a run down between third base and home and was out, failing to add a run.
After failing to score points, San Diego collapsed again in a tailgate showdown. Tim Hill hit three consecutive hits and gave up a run first, and Nick Martinez, the only ‘reliable man’ among San Diego’s middle pitchers, took the mound in the 8th inning, but allowed Joc Pederson to tie the score and set the game back to square one.
San Diego, which has a thin bullpen, chose Martinez again in the ninth inning, but it became like a defeat. His season fatigue increased, and in the ninth inning, he failed to block the San Francisco batting line properly and faced a crisis with one company and first and second base. Finisher Josh Hader came to the mound only after the end crisis came, but perhaps it was because he did not prepare properly, and in the end, Hader gave up two walks in a row, and the game ended with San Francisco’s end push victory. San Francisco, which had won the game the previous day with Mike Yastrzemski’s three-run homer in the 10th inning, continued its winning streak by bringing thrilling victories to San Diego for two days in a row.