'Son of the Wind' Lee Jung-hoo (San Francisco Giants) succeeded in bouncing back against Merrill Kelly (Arizona Diamondbacks), known for the 'KBO reverse export success myth.'
Lee Jung-hoo started as the fifth center fielder in the third game of the four-game road series against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Major League Baseball held at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on the 3rd (Korean time), achieving a multi-hit in his second at-bat.
Lee Jung-hoo, who had been silent with no hits for the last four games, had missed the previous day's game. Was the break beneficial? Lee appeared with two outs and one runner on base leading 1-0 in the top of the first inning, hitting a 92.6 mph (149 km/h) four-seam fastball that was over the plate from Merrill Kelly, a former SK Wyverns player, and smacked it for an RBI triple that struck the center field wall (his seventh of the season). It was a welcome hit that broke his silence of no hits for four consecutive games, a triple with a distance of 387 feet (117 m), resembling a home run.
Lee Jung-hoo did not stop his bat. After the subsequent batter Luis Matos grounded out to third base, the inning ended.
Lee Jung-hoo's bat continued. He emerged as the leadoff batter in the top of the fourth inning, leading 2-0, and seized on the sixth pitch, an 88.5 mph (142 km/h) changeup from Kelly with a ball count of 2B-2S, hitting a double that landed in right-center, his 18th of the season. This marked the moment he achieved a multi-hit for the first time in about a month since the game against the San Diego Padres on the 5th of last month.
After Lee Jung-hoo moved to third base on a flyout by the following batter Matos and a groundout from Patrick Bailey, Tyler Fitzgerald could not make a score either, ending up with a right-field flyout.
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