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KIA Tigers infielder Kim Do-young (20) continues his all-time challenge beyond the legend of KBO League legend Lee Seung-yeop. If he achieves it, he is making strides toward the difficult goal of achieving the youngest home run king in history and the first 40-homer club in Korea.

A great record breaker was born at the same time as the 2024 KBO League's best hit product. The history of KBO League hitters is being rewritten several times this season. The main character is Kim Do-young, a third-year high school graduate infielder of KIA. 토토사이트 추천

Kim Do-young, born in 2003, graduated from Gwangju Daesung Elementary School, Gwangju Dongseong Middle School, and Gwangju Dongseong High School. He was a unique character even when he was expected to become the "second Lee Jong-beom" from the moment he joined Kia in 2022 after receiving the first nomination. And this year, he has been summoning several legends by meeting their expectations perfectly.

In a home game against SSG Landers of the 2024 KBO League held at KIA Champions Field in Gwangju on Sunday, Kim hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning, marking his 33rd homer for this season. It was a homerun that summoned Lee Seung-yeop (current manager of Doosan Bears), who is considered the best slugger in Korean baseball.

In 1997, the third season of his professional career, Lee hit his 32nd home run at the age of 21 years and one month. This was both a new record for most home runs in his third year as a high school graduate and a new record for the youngest. And Kim hit 33 home runs at the age of 20 years, 10 months and 26 days, beating Lee's record for most home runs this season.

It is not easy to find cases in which a batter under the age of 20 hits more than 30 home runs while leading the home run race in the league. For nearly 27 years since Lee Seung-yeop, it has been hard to find cases before Kim Do-young. In 1997, Lee recorded a batting average of 0.329/32 home runs/114 RBIs in 126 games, ranking first in all categories of home runs, RBIs and most hits (2nd in batting average). It was in the season when the legend of the Lion King was born, and Kim Do-young is also signaling the beginning of this season's legend.

In fact, Kim had one hit (one homer) and two RBIs in the final three times at bat on Sunday. Notably, his score for this season has increased to 119, which is Kia's highest score in a single season, surpassing Roger Bernadina's 118 scored in the 2017 season. In such a short period of time, Kim has become a new history for Kia.

Kim Do-young was already extraordinary from the beginning. In 2022, the first year of his joining the team, he only posted a batting average of 0.237/three homers/19 RBIs/13 steals in 103 games, going through trial and error. Despite being sidelined for an extended period of time due to injury last year, however, he gradually began to display his potential by posting a batting average of 0.303/7 homers/66 runs/55 RBIs/25 steals in 84 games.

In addition, the team has been busy starting from the beginning of this season. Kim Do-young became the first player in the KBO league to hit 10 homers and 10 steals per month in April, raising expectations for the Monster season. This is a record that neither Lee Jong-beom, the former LG coach who is considered the best player in the history of the team, nor Eric Thames, the former NC Dinosaurs who stole 40 homers and 40 steals in the KBO League have achieved.

Afterwards, the steep rise slightly declined, but achieving the milestone was not a problem. He hit 20 home runs this season against "Korean Monster" Ryu Hyun-jin on June 23, and already achieved 20 home runs and 20 steals before the end of the first half.

Kim Do-young was the fifth to join the 20-home run-20 steal club in the first half, following Park Jae-hong in 1996, Lee Byung-kyu in 2000, and Thames in 2015. In addition, Kim Do-young became the youngest player to record a 20-20 club (at 20 years, 8 months and 21 days) after Kim Jae-hyun, current head of SSG (18 years, 11 months and 5 days) in 1994.