"Taeyeon, it's really stressful!" A special foreign pitcher shakes his head...A batting average of .429 + crazy contact, strong No. 1 against Hanwha appeared

"Taeyeon, it's really stressful!" A special foreign pitcher shakes his head...A batting average of .429 + crazy contact, strong No. 1 against Hanwha appeared

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Has the Hanwha Eagles finally found a strong first hitter? Ten-year-old outfielder Kim Tae-yeon took the leadoff position in the opening series and hit hard with a batting average of 429 to impress coach Kim Kyung-moon. His performance during the weekend was so intense that foreign ace players mentioned him as the most difficult hitter in Hanwha.스포츠토토

Enmanuel de Heysus, who faced Hanwha as the starter for KT Wiz's opening game on the 22nd, mentioned Kim Tae-yeon without hesitation when asked which player was the most strained among Hanwha hitters.

"The first batter, Kim Tae-yeon, was the hardest hitter," Heissus said. "I made him throw a lot of balls at the first at-bat, and also at the second at-bat. I was really stressed out on the mound because I made a lot of foul pitches."

In fact, Kim started as the first left fielder at the opening game against KT held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on Sunday, and led his team to come from behind to win by posting one hit, one RBI and one out of three pitches. He was seen persistently harassing the pitcher at bat, but he hit a fly ball to the center field at the top of the first inning after a game of eight pitches, and in the top of the third inning, he hit Hayesus' 10th slider at a chance to garner a timely RBI and left field. It was a perfect performance that added to the stress of the opposing ace.

Kim Tae-yeon also played as the first left fielder at the match against Suwon KT on Sunday, and continued his momentum of the opening game by scoring two hits and one run from four times at bat. After catching his breath by hitting a fly ball to the left field in the top of the first inning and striking out in the top of the third inning, he came out as the leadoff hitter at both the top of the sixth and the top of the eighth inning to report left-handed hits. In the top of the sixth inning, he took second base with a walk by Moon Hyun-bin, and then hit a critical hit by Noh Si-hwan to the ground running.

Kim's record in the opening series was .429 with a batting average of 4.29 (three hits in seven at-bats) and a .429 on-base plus slugging percentage.

Having failed to find a definitive first hitter last season, Kim spent a lot of time searching for the first hitter at his spring camps in Australia and Japan. Originally, he was going to leave the first hitter to Shim Woo-joon, who signed a four-year, five-billion-won (approx. However, he concluded that Shim is not fit for the first hitter, and let Kim Tae-yeon, Lee Jin-young, and Lim Jong-chan participate in the audition for the first hitter at the Okinawa camp in Japan. Kim Tae-yeon, who has a .571 on-base percentage in eight exhibition games, captured the hearts of the coach.

Thanks to her performance in the opening series, Kim Tae-yeon is expected to be given a steady chance at No. 1 for the time being. "It's good if the No. 1 hitter goes out and hits, but if you let the pitcher throw a lot of balls (like the opening game), that will also help the team," manager Kim Kyung-moon said. "Now that we are in the regular season, we are trying to make the players feel comfortable with their position and hit rather than changing the batting lineup."

Kim Tae-yeon is a 10-year-old professional outfielder who left the Yatapo and was ranked 59th in the sixth round of the second round of Hanwha in the 2016 Rookie Draft, and secured the leadoff this year thanks to his .436 on-base percentage of .363 career high in 126 games last season. Kim Tae-yeon also drew attention as the main player of the opening first home run at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 17th.