Provided by OSEN | 2024.05.09 17:15
[OSEN=이상학 기자] San Francisco Giants Lee Jeong-hoo (26) produced a long-distance shot. It was a home run shot, but it hit the high fence directly and had to settle for a double.
Jeong-hoo Lee started as the leadoff hitter and center fielder in the 2024 Major League Baseball away game against the Colorado Rockies held at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA on the 9th (Korea time), recording 1 hit, 1 RBI, and 1 run in 5 at-bats, leading San Francisco to 8-0.
Lee Jeong-hoo, who has been on a hitting streak for the past six consecutive games, saw his season batting average from .2644 to .206.2 (38 hits in 145 at-bats). OPS also dropped slightly from .642 to .641.
Lee Jung-hoo attacked Colorado right-handed starting pitcher Peter Lambert with the first pitch in his first at-bat in the first inning, but was caught by a fly ball to shortstop. In the 3rd inning, with 1 out and runners on 1st and 2nd base, he hit a cold long shot. With the ball count at 2-1, he pulled an 88.7 mile per hour (142.7 km) slider that came inside Lambert’s fourth pitch and sent a strike to right.
The batted ball, which flew at 104.6 miles per hour (168.3 km) and a launch angle of 19 degrees, hit the right field wall of Coors Field directly. Distance 368 feet (112.2m). While the batted ball hit the fence and fell to the ground, Lee Jeong-hoo entered second base. Second base runner Elliott Ramos hit a home run, and first base runner Nick Ahmed went to third. A one-run double made the score 4-0.
With his fourth double of the season, he tasted a long hit for the first time in 16 games since the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the 21st of last month (1 home run, 1 double). Meanwhile, all 13 of Lee Jeong-hoo’s hits were singles.
If the batted ball had been a little higher, it could have been a home run. According to Baseball Savant, the ball would be a home run in 21 of the 30 stadiums in the league. In addition to Coors Field, the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park, the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field, the Kansas City Royals’ Kauffman Stadium, the LA Angels’ Angel Stadium, the LA Dodgers’ Dodgers Stadium, the Minnesota Twins’ Target Field, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park, and San Francisco It was a hit that didn’t become a home run in 9 stadiums, including Oracle Park.
Coors Field, located at an altitude of 1,600 meters above sea level, is famous as the most hitter-friendly baseball stadium. It is known that the higher the altitude, the lower the air pressure, which reduces the air resistance to the ball, and the batted ball flies about 10% further than on a flat stadium. Over the past three years, Coors Field’s park factor is the highest at 112.
Even so, it might be a little surprising that Lee Jeong-hoo’s hit ball didn’t become a home run in a stadium like this. The distance to the right field fence at Coors Field is 106.7m, the second longest after the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field (107.6m), and the height of the fence has also increased from 8 feet (2.44m) to 16 feet ( 4.88m) since then. 2016.
The environment became a little unfavorable for left-handed batters, and Lee Jeong-hoo’s batted ball caught the top of the fence, unfortunately failing to hit a home run. In the three consecutive away games against the Boston Red Sox on 1st to 3rd, Lee Jeong-hoo hit a home run ball to right for three consecutive games, but right (116m) and right-center (128m) blocked by the deep structure Fenway Park and the night wind, so all of them fly balls have been caught
This time, I swallowed my regret by narrowly missing a home run at Coors Field. Jeong-hoo Lee has two home runs this season, the last being a solo shot off Jack Gallen in the first inning of the home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Oracle Park on the 21st of last month. There has been no home run in the last 16 consecutive games. /waw@osen.co.kr
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