LG Twins’ Moon Sung-joo “Bok-poong” led a comeback victory with four RBIs in one game. He was teased for being “weak in scoring position” despite having a .300 batting average.바카라사이트
On the 25th, Moon batted second against Lotte in Jamsil and went 2-for-5 with two doubles, four RBIs, and two runs scored. In a three-game weekend series against Lotte, he went 6-for-12 with a home run and five RBIs. She improved to 3-for-5 on the season.
He singled with one out in the first inning and was stranded at second on a grounder to shortstop. Trailing 0-3 in the fifth inning, LG loaded the bases with a single by Heo Do-hwan, a walk by Shin Min-jae, and a single by Hong Chang-ki. Then Moon Sung-joo came to the plate.
Moon hit a grounder to the second baseman, which turned into a force out at second and a double play at first. LG requested a video review on the out/save at first base, and it was overturned from an out to a save. Moon Sung-joo gritted his teeth and sprinted to the plate. It wasn’t a hit, but it was an RBI.
Trailing 1-3 with one out in the seventh, he took a forked ball from Koo Seung-min and hit a triple over the first baseman’s head. He raced to third base and made a head-first sliding catch. After hitting a triple, he roared with an intense ceremony. Kim Hyun-soo followed with an RBI single to tie the game at 3-3.
LG took a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning, scoring a run on an infield single and a fielding error by Lotte’s infielders with runners on first and second. With the bases loaded, Moon Sung-joo hit a two-run single up the middle off Lotte closer Kim Won-joong to make it 6-3.
Moon came through with the decisive hit against Lotte’s set-up man Koo Seung-min and closer Kim Won-joong, respectively.
After the game, Moon said of his seventh-inning triple that tied the game, “I was fouled off a fastball earlier. My timing was late, so I thought I was going to get another fastball, so I prepared with a fastball and a changeup. I was lucky, and I only had to look at the third base coach, Park Yong-geun. Thanks to my coach,” he said.
The wedge hit in the eighth inning was also well-prepared. “Kim Won-joong walked Hong Chang-ki with a pitch that hit him in the body, so I knew he was going to start the count with a fastball,” Moon said. Kim Won-joong’s first-pitch fastball was hit cleanly over the center field fence for a two-run double.
“In the most important situation, Moon Sung-ju scored two more runs and played a crucial role in winning the game,” said Yoon Kyung-yeop after the game.
“I’ve been told a lot that I’m not hitting in the scoring zone, so…” Moon revealed during the interview. She was hurt by the DMs (direct messages) sent by fans. The seniors on the team also teased her.
Before the game, Moon was 16-for-60 (2-for-66, 7 RBI) in scoring position. That’s below his season average of 3-for-1. He went 1-for-2 with the bases loaded and 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position. On the season, he is 3-for-5 (10th in the league) and third in the league in on-base percentage (.406). Bok-dong, who was drafted in the second 10th round (97th overall) of the 2018 rookie draft, has developed into a three-hole hitter.
“I don’t think so,” Moon said, “I think there are a lot of situations where I’m hitting with no outs or runners on base. It’s said that if you have a batting average of 3%, you hit well,” he said. “My brothers in the center field think that they have a high batting average in scoring position because they have a lot of scoring opportunities, and I don’t have a lot of scoring opportunities…. Still, it was true that I was not hitting well, so I think I blew it,” he said.
Moon hit a dramatic two-out, tiebreaking RBI single off Choi Yong-chan in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 1-3 loss to the Changwon NC on April 22. LG won 4-3 in 12 extra innings.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about it (when the fans pointed it out), and I think there was some pressure because I had to keep it in my mind and hit it somehow,” Moon said.