Another injury, another hamstring... Coach Lee Bum-ho couldn't laugh even if he won "Kim Do-young's injury"
Another injury, another hamstring... Coach Lee Bum-ho couldn't laugh even if he won "Kim Do-young's injury"
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Coach Lee Bum-ho could not laugh even after winning the victory that ended the losing streak. This is because "MVP" Kim Do-young faced bad news again with a hamstring injury.
KIA defeated the Kiwoom Heroes of the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League 7-5 at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field on Sunday. Starter Adam Oler failed to secure victory but managed to post quality start pitching by allowing two runs and seven strikeouts in six innings. Choi Hyung-woo (3 hits, one home run, two RBIs in four times at bat) and Hwang Dae-in (2 hits and two RBIs in four times at bat) were active players in the batting lineup, resulting in three runs scored in the fifth inning and four runs in the seventh inning.
The eighth-ranked Kia Tigers (25 wins and 26 losses and a winning percentage of 0.490), which ended its two-game losing streak, is one step closer to its winning percentage of 500. The gap has narrowed to 0.5 games with the sixth-ranked SSG Landers (25 wins, 2 draws and 25 losses) and the NC Dinos (23 wins, 3 draws and 23 losses).
However, Kia couldn't be happier. Kim Do-young, the core player of the team, is injured. Kim took the batter's box with two outs and a third base in the bottom of the fifth inning when Kia was losing 0-2, and hit a timely RBI single off Kiwoom starter Ha Young-min.
In the subsequent at-bat of Choi Hyung-woo, with two outs and runners on the first base, Kim attempted to steal the second base to create a chance to score. Kim successfully stole the bases for the third time of this season, and sent an autograph to the bench by touching the back of his right thigh. In the end, he was replaced by Kim Gyu-seong.
Immediately after the injury, KIA said, "Kim Do-young was replaced due to pain in his right thigh, and he will move to a club-designated hospital for an MRI examination." The club later said, "The MRI examination revealed damage to his right hamstring," and added, "We will conduct additional cross-examination on the 28th." 바카라사이트
It is a bolt out of the blue for KIA. Kim was already out of the lineup just one hour after the opening game of this season due to his left hamstring injury. While Kim was away, Kia's batters struggled as they failed to display strong performance last year.
Kim Do-young, who returned to the first team on April 25 after a one-month hiatus, showed off his presence with a batting average of 0.330 with seven home runs, 26 RBIs and three steals with an OPS of 1.008 in 27 games. In particular, he boasted his peak hitting sense with four consecutive home runs since the game against KT Wiz on the 22nd. However, once again, he was hamstrung by his hamstring injury, which forced him to leave the gap. Fortunately, the injury was on the right side, not the left side that was injured last time.
KIA, whose main players, including Na Sung-bum, Kim Sun-bin and Patrick Wisdom, were injured due to injuries, suffered "super backup" Park Jung-woo's hamstring on the 25th, and even Kim Do-young collapsed. KIA, which has not shown the prowess of the "defending champion" at the beginning of the season and remains at the bottom, has deepened its troubles due to the batters' line injuries.