Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim continuing to grow into his role in Year 2 in the United States
Instead, Kim watched a 98 mph fastball hit the outside corner. He did not expand his zone when Kyle Finnegan’s next fastball slipped low and away. Kim spit on the splitter that dropped below the zone. After a 2-1 fastball missed high, Finnegan snuck one through the zone, high and tight, but Kim did not swing and walked to first base after home plate umpire Tripp Gibson missed the call.
Mission accomplished, even if the ultimate mission was lost one batter later when Jurickson Profar grounded into a game-ending double play.“I’m never thinking about being the hero,” Kim said through interpreter Leo Bae. “That’s not my game. My goal is to try to have a solid at-bat, to try to help the team win the most. That at-bat that night, the best result was for me to get on base, to get a walk and I was able to get the best result.
“When CJ was here, there were times wasn’t playing against righties; he was just playing against lefties,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “Now he’s getting at-bats against everybody. And you look at the numbers that he put up in Korea, he was an offensive guy, so I think he’s just getting more and more comfortable seeing guys multiple times, getting consistent at-bats and he’s having a nice year for us all the way around.”He won Gold Gloves on defense.
Every so often, Kim pulls the curtains back, as he did while dancing in the dugout with Tatis during a game delay last year or even offering that his “six-pack” is the reason he was able to hop back onto his feet so soon after dashing face-first into the netting to reel in a pop-up in foul territory Sunday.
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