Go straight to MVP! Lee Jung-hoo hit two home runs and four RBIs! Babe-Mickey-Reggie Jackson! The local area was shocked too
Go straight to MVP! Lee Jung-hoo hit two home runs and four RBIs! Babe-Mickey-Reggie Jackson! The local area was shocked too
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Lee Jung-hoo (26, San Francisco Giants) is on his way to the MVP, exploding his first multi-homer game since his Major League debut.
Lee is now heading straight for the most valuable player in the league. In an away game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York on Monday (Korea time), Lee started as the third center fielder, and displayed stellar performance in multi-homer games, including a three-run homer that turned the game around, and a solo homer that chased after, and led his team to a 5-4 victory.
Lee Jung-hoo's batting average for the season, which swept three home runs in the series against the Yankees alone, rose to 0.352 (19 hits in 54 times at bat), and his OPS, which combines on-base percentage (0.426) and slugging percentage (0.704), soared to 1.130.
Of the 19 hits that Lee Jung-hoo has hit in the past 14 games, 12 are long balls, or far more than half of them. While recording eight doubles, one triple and three home runs, he drew seven walks and struck out eight. He has also recorded three stolen bases, showing perfect defense.
Lee also showed perfect performance in Sunday's game. On the day, Lee started off as the only left-handed batter in the San Francisco lineup against veteran left-hander Carlos Rodon of the Yankees. Rodon had a competitive career against left-handed pitchers, but only Lee Jung-hoo was in constant trust.
And Lee lived up to the expectations at the top of the fourth inning when his team was losing 0-3. Standing at the batter's box with one out, Lee calmly picked out the ball and engaged in a 3B-2S full count game. Then, when 85.5 miles (137.6 kilometers) of slider was concentrated in the middle at the sixth pitch, he scooped it up to draw a large solo arch over the right-center fence.
The home run flew so fast that the speed of the home run flew 103.2 miles (166 kilometers), and the flying angle was 29 degrees, and the flying distance amounted to 406 feet, or 123.7 meters. Anyone could sense that the home run flew at ideal speed and trajectory, and Lee Jung-hoo immediately grabbed his helmet and ran around the ground after checking the batting briefly.
NBC Area broadcasters, who were in charge of San Francisco's official broadcast, later watched Lee Jung-hoo's home run swing on replay, exclaiming, "Beautiful Swing!"
In the sixth inning, he completed his first multi-home run since his Major League debut with a three-run arch that turned the game around. After facing Rodon once again with one out and runners on the first and second bases, Lee hit the ball again this time to hit a three-run arch over the right-center fence when the 131.5-km curve on the fifth pitch entered the highest course in the strike zone. It was the first scene in which Rodon, who is serving as the ace for the Yankees this season, allowed a left-handed batter in his Major League career.
It was the moment when his first multi-homer game was completed. At the same time, it was the scene where Rodon allowed multi-homer game to left-handed hitters for the first time in his career. Lee Jung-hoo, who hit a dramatic single that turned the game from 1-3 to 4-3, raised his fist and returned to the dugout to receive tremendous hospitality from his teammates, and did not hide his joy.
In the meantime, NBC Area broadcasters expressed shock and admiration, saying, "LIKE Babe (Ruth), Like Mickey (Mantle), Reggie Jackson Lee Jung-hoo," expressing Lee Jung-hoo's home run situation.
The evaluation that it is like Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, or Reggie Jackson is simply a description of Lee Jung-hoo as the perfect player.
As many Korean baseball fans know, Babe Ruth is considered the symbol of Slugger, the best home run hitter in Major League history. He played before and after the era of live ball, and also played as a runner-up, bringing the era of home runs to the Major League. Like a player who symbolizes sluggers, Lee Jung-hoo shows the perfect home run hitter who overwhelms opposing pitchers.
Mickey Mantle, a legendary Yankees star, is also considered the best switch hitter in history and one of the best center field players of all time. While playing for 18 seasons in the New York Yankees alone, he left a legendary career, winning seven World Series titles, 20 All-Star selections, three league MVPs, four home run kings, and a triple crown that dominated home run-rate and RBI in 1956. It was a compliment that Lee Jung-hoo was showing the same image as Mantle, a batter and center fielder with excellent long-distance hitting and accurate hitting ability.
The comparison between Reggie Jackson and Lee Jung-hoo is also highly praised. Reggie Jackson, dubbed "Mr. Oktober," is a legendary five-tool player from the Hall of Fame with 2,584 hits, 563 home runs, 228 steals, 1,551 runs and 1,702 RBIs during his 21 seasons in the Major League. Because he was a batter with a lot of strikeouts, he was a San Francisco broadcaster who showed technical and powerful batting power and long-shot power despite his slightly different style from Lee Jung-hoo, but not large physique.
Now, Lee is on his way to becoming the MVP of the league. All different batting indicators are at the top of the league. With an OPS of 1.130, he is the second-largest overall in the Major League after Aaron Judge of the New York Times and the first in the National League.
Lee Jung-hoo's batting average of 0.352 is also fifth in the entire Major League and second in the National League 메이저놀이터. His slugging percentage of 0.704 is the No. 1 record in the National League, and his on-base percentage of 0.426 is seventh in the National League. His eight doubles are also No. 1 in the league. Although his cumulative records of scoring and RBI are still in the mid-double-digit range of the league, he can quickly catch up with the current pace.
Lee Jung-hoo is currently in the spotlight as a five-tool player who attracts the most attention in the early major league schedule as he has shown perfect base running ability, including three stolen bases. It's still too early to say, but it seems clear that Lee Jung-hoo is wearing the face of MVP at this moment.