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Pro baseball Kia's rookie player Kim Do-young exploded terribly this month and started to bloom.
The competition for the Rookie of the Year is getting hotter.
This is reporter Bae Jung-hoon.
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Kim Do-young was called the 'second Jong-beom Lee' and was selected as the No. 1 candidate for the Rookie of the Year until he became the batting king of the demonstration game, but after the start of the regular season, he saw the bitter taste of a pro.
He exposed his weakness in the starting line and stayed on the bench in a sluggish 2-1 batting average without a home run until last month.
[Kim Do-young/KIA Rookie Infielder: After 2 strikes, Yoo In-gu seems to have bothered me a bit.]
Do-young Kim was desperate and refined her swing.
He became a completely different player when he was ready for a quick hit and fine-tuning the different leg kicks based on the ball count.
He rose to the core of the team's batting line that Socrates was missing in July, when he hit three homers on a .30-6 in eight games.
Yesterday (12th), the 116m-long home run hit in Jamsil was a devastating blow to announce that 'Baby Tiger' Kim Do-young has woken up.
[Kim Do-young / KIA Rookie Infielder: I think I found my batting form, so 'Let's play while entering confidently' at every bat seems to have led to good results.
Kim Do-young heralds a game change in the Rookie of the Year competition led by SSG's Jeon Eui-san, Samsung's Kim Hyeon-jun, and Hanwha's In-hwan Kim.
(Video editing: Woo-Jeong Woo)