In his first major league postseason game played by Mipro Baseball St. Louis’s Kim Kwang-hyun, he kept his promise to "protect the lead and pass the ball."
However, even after receiving generous scoring support, he did not fill the 5th inning.
Kwang-Hyun Kim started in the first leg of the National League Wild Card Series against San Diego Padres of the 2020 American Professional Baseball (MLB) held at Petco Park, San Diego, California, and gave 5 hits and 2 walks in 3⅔innings and scored 3 runs.
The strikeout caught two.
St. Louis coach Mike Silt made an unprecedented choice to put'Rookie' Kim Gwang-hyun, who posted an average of 1.62 wins and an ERA in the first year of the Major League, in the first match of the 2020 postseason.
However, Kwang-Hyun Kim scored 1st, 2nd and 3rd in a row with a leading batter.
In the first attack, St. Louis won four points, including Paul Goldschmidt’s first two-run gun.
At the end of the first inning, Kim Gwang-hyun started his first MLB postseason by putting his first fastball into the strike zone to his first batter, Fernando Tatis Jr., but allowed him to walk as the zero point of the fastball on his body slightly shakes.
After throwing a change-up to follow-up batter Manny Machado, he was hit by second baseman and gave a hit to the right fielder.
Kim Gwang-hyun, who was driven to the first and third bases without sacrificing, threw a 147 km/h fastball and induces Eric Hosmer to a sacrifice fly for center fielder, swapping out counts and scores.
After catching the first out count, Kim Gwang-hyun found stability.
Kim Kwang-hyun threw a 140km/h slider, his main weapon, to his opponent's fourth hitter, Will Myers, and treated it as a missed swing strikeout.
In Tommy Pam at-bat, after throwing an outside fastball at catcher Yadier Molina's fastball sign, Kim Gwang-hyun, who also laughed, turned Pam to center fielder, ending the first inning.
Kim Gwang-hyun also conceded in the second inning with a sacrifice fly.
Kim Gwang-hyun, who was hit by a triple hitting the top of the central fence while playing a fastball against National League rookie candidate Jake Cronenworth, who appeared as the first batter, gave a sacrifice fly to right fielder Austin Nola.
Afterwards, Kim Gwang-hyun captured Jurickson Propar with a left fielder and Trent Gresham with a shortstop ground ball.
In the third inning, Kim Kwang-hyun was hit left by leading batter Tatis Junior.
After visiting pitching coach Mike Maddox's mound, Kwang-Hyun Kim sighed by killing a horse and a horse.
However, at first base from 2nd, he was hit by Myers and Pam in a row and conceded an additional goal.
Kim Kwang-hyun struck out his surprise at the start of the fourth inning and broke the'first batter on-base' chain.
However, after two deaths, he walked to Grisham and caused a crisis.
In the end, manager Silt climbed to the mound directly at the end of the 4th inning, 6-3, at the end of the 4th inning, and signed Kim Gwang-hyun for a replacement, and Kim Gwang-hyun passed the mound to Ryan Helsley.
The St. Louis hitting line supported 6 points while Kwang-hyun Kim defended the mound.
Kim Gwang-hyun, who received the honor of starting the first match in the postseason in 2020, also had a chance to become a victorious pitcher, but unfortunately, the first victory in the postseason was postponed to the next opportunity.
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