Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants hits a single that scored a run against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, Tuesday (local time). AFP-Yonhap
Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants collected two hits and drove in a run to take the upper hand over his Los Angeles Dodgers countryman Kim Hye-seong.
Lee, who batted sixth and started in right field, went 2-for-3 with an RBI to help the Giants edge out the Dodgers 3-1 at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Tuesday (local time).
Lee has shaken off a sluggish start and has raised his batting average from .185 on April 12 to .259 following Tuesday's game. He has seven multihit games for the season, three of which have come in his last five games.
Kim, who started at shortstop and batted seventh, had a hit in his lone at-bat and drew a bases-loaded walk for the Dodgers' only run of the game. Kim, who began the season in Triple-A and was called up on April 5, is batting .333 in 13 games. But the shortstop also committed an error in the first inning that led to all three of the Giants' runs in the first inning.
This was the first meeting of the season between the only two Korean players in Major League Baseball (MLB) at the moment.
On that fateful play in the opening frame, Kim snagged a hard grounder hit by Willy Adames, but from the outfield grass, Kim airmailed his throw into the first base dugout to allow Adames to take second base.
The Giants then loaded the bases with a single and a walk. After a hit and a sacrifice fly put the Giants up 2-0, Lee lined a single to right field to extend the Giants' lead to 3-0.
Kim singled in the second inning and then worked an eight-pitch walk against Landen Roupp with the bases loaded in the fourth inning to cut the deficit to 3-1.
Lee was thrown out at home in the bottom sixth, trying to score from first on a single by Heliot Ramos. Lee was replaced by Jerar Encarnacion in the right field to begin the top eighth.
Source: Korea Times News
