Both the team and Kim Ha-seong will have a fight that can gain momentum in the early season.
The San Diego Padres, who finished their four-game away game against the Atlanta Braves with one loss and three consecutive wins, moved to Citi Field in New York to continue their three-game away game against the New York Mets.
The first game starts at 8:10 am (Korean time) on the 11th, and the opposing starting pitcher is Max Scherzer, the best ace of the time. As a result, San Diego is also more interested in fighting back with ace Darvish Euro.
San Diego is tied for the lead in the National League West with 6 wins and 4 losses. If Scherzer is defeated, the uptrend could be steeper.
Scherzer is the number one superstar in this category, receiving an annual salary of $43.33 million (approximately 57.2 billion won) this year. However, the pace at the beginning of the season is not good. In the opening game on March 31, he threw just about with 4 hits and 3 runs in 6 innings against the Miami Marlins, but in the last 5 against the Milwaukee Brewers, he pitched the worst in his life. He gave up 8 hits and 2 walks in 5⅓ innings and gave up 5 runs, but only in the 6th inning he hit a home run with 3 consecutive batters and lost face.
He recorded 1 win and 1 loss in 2 games, an earned run average of 6.35, and a batting average of 0.279.
His fastball average speed decreased by 0.7 mph from 94.0 mph last year to 93.3 mph this year, but the focus should be on the fact that it is still early in the season rather than the pitch itself. It is analyzed that in the first game, he posted a quality start, and in the second game, there were frequent mismatches with the Milwaukee hitters who were aiming for a lot.
That’s why San Diego isn’t as easy to hit as the Milwaukee hitters. He went 6-3 with a 2.88 earned run average against San Diego.
However, Kim Ha-seong has recently been in a booming sense of hitting. After hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the 4th, in the game against Atlanta on the 10th, he swung a hard hit with 2 hits, 3 RBIs and 1 walk in 4 at-bats, including a home run.
In the top of the 2nd inning, he hit the 82 mile slider of opponent starter Dylan Dot with second baseman without a hit and scored an RBI with a double that hit the center fence. It was connected to the left two-run gun. He pulled gently over the fence to his left, like a golf swing. Season 2 home run. His season batting average rose to 0.281.
Kim Ha-seong met Scherzer in just one game. In his first confrontation at Petco Park on August 27, 2021, when Scherzer was with the LA Dodgers, he was tied with no hits in three at-bats and two strikeouts.
In the first at-bat in the bottom of the 3rd inning, when an outside 85.5 mph slider fell to the floor, he struck out with a swing, and in the 5th inning, he struck out with a 96.5 mph fast ball, and in the 8th inning, with a ball count of 1B2S, he retired with a 96.7 mile fastball on the 7th pitch and a shortstop fly. it happened
Scherzer became the winning pitcher with 2 hits and 10 strikeouts in 7⅔ innings. At that time, he was reigning as the strongest ace. Of course, Ha-seong Kim also had more time at bat than he does now because it was his first season in the major leagues. 카지노
It remains to be seen whether Kim Ha-seong will get his first hit against Scherzer, who boasts a ransom value six times higher than his own.