Chapter 728 – Episode 715. Watch Out for That Guy! (2)
-Ji Maeng-ho explodes with consecutive home runs! Yankees 8th straight win!
… Ji Maeng-ho hit a two-run home run in the finals and then hit a grand slam at the plate, giving the team victory…
┗ㅇㅅㅁㅎㅅ
┗ And consecutive batting ㄷㄷ
-Ji Maeng-ho’s performance is currently causing a stir locally. Stat
8 games, 19 hits in 36 at-bats, 6 doubles, 1 triple, 7 home runs, 4 walks, 4 stolen bases, 16 runs, 20 RBIs.
Batting average: 0.528
On-base percentage: 0.548
Slugging percentage: 1.333
OPS: 1.881
┗This guy came in because he was always causing trouble, and he was really causing trouble haha
┗But the walks are a bit low. Didn’t the fierce defender hit 200 walks in Korea?
┗┗In Korea, all the pitchers avoided it, but they didn’t avoid it in the majors, so it looks like they don’t have to walk.
┗ㅋㅋ If it gets analyzed anyway, you’re just a bastard who will get robbed.
┗┗ㅈㄹ ㄴㄴ
┗┗ Is just an asshole, but his grades are definitely dropping. Major pitchers just give Maeng Ho-shin the ball he likes?
┗┗Then maintaining this grade is even stranger. How do you maintain 50%?
┗┗ㄹㅇㅍㅌ LOL
┗Jumo, please give me a bowl of soup!!!
┗┗Jumo bitch, spread your legs haha
-Yankees 9 consecutive wins! Ji Maeng-ho is silent!
… The Yankees won 11:3 against Toronto… Meanwhile, Ji Maeng-ho failed to record his 8th home run of the season, recording 2 hits in 5 at-bats, 1 RBI, and 2 stolen bases. … In an interview that day, Ji Maeng-ho said, “Yesterday, I felt good at hitting, so I swung hard, but it’s disappointing that it didn’t hit a home run.” …
┗I watched it because it said it was silent, but it got 2 hits in 5 at-bats ㅅㅂ
┗LOL There is a batter who has 2 hits in 5 at-bats, but his batting average is low? Pushyungpashyung
┗Bombing of the fiercely protective United States!!!
-Can we really win this time?
┗I’m still excited about the 9th game
┗What is local public opinion?
┗Ji Maeng-ho is just a god haha
┗┗I always prayed for this guy to come back when he was running around, and it seems to have worked haha
┗┗ㅅㄲ? Is Meng Tiger your friend?
┗┗It’s 55M and I need to get this sorted haha
*
“Uh? Ji? Ji, right? Ji! Please give me an autograph! Do you live here by any chance?”
“Yes. What. Where can I do it for you?”
“Please do this with the clothes here first.”
“Yes.”
New York returned from a trip to Detroit and Toronto. I must have been very active so far, so much so that even people I met in the elevator asked me for my autograph.
‘Well, I’ve now hit 7 home runs in 9 games, so it’s worth noting that I’m recognized.’
Honestly, my grades these days have been better than in Korea. The reason is the lack of analysis. Is the speed at which I adapt to the major leagues much faster than the speed at which the major league clubs analyze me and the pitchers accept it?
To be honest, I was curious why they only gave me pitches that I liked, so I asked Cole on the way back, and he told me that pitchers are like that and that I should enjoy the moment.
It would be nice to maintain these results until the end of the season, but as Cole said, it seemed difficult for me to continue these results forever.
If there was an analysis, or rather the analysis had already been done, so if the pitchers accepted the analysis, there would probably be fewer pitchers competing head-on with me, and it was only natural that it would become difficult for me to swing the bat actively.
“Thank you!”
“Yes. Good luck.”
After sending her away because she wasn’t very pretty, I went into her house and felt the warmth of people along with the smell of food.
“Are you here?”
“Why are you so late? “You thought I was going to die waiting for you.”
And one of the main characters of that warmth was Hyuna. Hyuna arrived in New York yesterday. Hyuna looked even prettier because it had been a while since we last saw each other. Of course, she couldn’t have cooked, so the person cooking in the kitchen now must have been Jia, who came to New York to pick up Hyuna.
“How did you get here?”
“Jia guided me through everything.”
“But did you win the final?”
“… “Shut up.”
Looking at the reaction, it looks like they lost again in the finals. Anyway, I have to help him.
“Did you make a good deal?”
“I’ve set up everything, but now I have to meet and sign a contract.”
For your information, Hyuna decided to pursue her career as a player in New York, where I am located. According to my brief search, the women’s volleyball team in New York is the strongest team in the league, having won the championship last year and the year before, so I was quite curious whether Hyuna’s dark energy would continue in the United States. 〈 Br〉
“Is your brother here?”
“Yes, Jia. “It was a lot of trouble to bring Hyuna.”
“No, Hyuna, it seems like it was your first time in New York, so you made a fuss the whole way. Her brother should have seen that…”
“Hey! Why say that?! “Do you really want to die?”
Wouldn’t it be nice to see Jia and Hyuna fighting? As I remembered Korea for the first time in a long time, I immediately grabbed Hyuna’s buttocks.
“Ugh?!”
“You wouldn’t have held on for long either. Let’s play one game first and then eat.”
*
“It’s a batting lineup that makes me cry even when I look at it again.”
Seattle Mariners’ ace, Bryce Miller, looked at the New York Yankees’ batting lineup again after completing the power analysis and laughed. Even though he’s only played nine games, there were four hitters with OPS above 1, and five others with OPS above 0.8.
Considering that the hitter currently recording the highest OPS among the team’s hitters is 0.969, the Yankees’ hitters were currently recording an absurd performance.
‘Well, I guess that means we’re on a 9-game winning streak.’
And the feeling I had was that I was jealous of the Yankees pitchers. With hitters like these, he could easily achieve 20 wins… For a moment, I felt annoyed at having to deal with such batters.
In particular, the more I thought about where the Yankees’ No. 1 to 3 hitters had gathered, the more absurd it became.
Judge, the second hitter, had a batting average of .300 with 4 home runs and an OPS of 1.075, and Soto, the third hitter, had a batting average of .400 with 4 home runs and an OPS of 1.372. But what was even more absurd was the performance of Ji Maeng-ho, the number one hitter.
Ji Maeng-ho’s performance over 9 games was a batting average of .408, 7 home runs, and an absurd OPS of 1.741.
It was completely understandable that Judge and Soto were achieving such results. There have only been 9 games played, and Judge and Soto are recognized as the best hitters in the major leagues and can aim for MVP at any time.
But I couldn’t understand Ji Maeng-ho’s performance. Even though it is a small sample, a batsman from the East can record such results…
‘Isn’t it normal for Asians to not perform better than the league they play in?’
Miller’s thoughts naturally turned to Seiya, the team’s Asian hitter who was acquired in a trade this season.
Seiya’s performance this season is .205, 9, and 0 home runs. His on-base percentage was .400, so he wasn’t a nuisance to the team, but compared to the Asians on the opposing team, his performance was miserable.
But in Miller’s opinion, it wasn’t Seiya’s fault. It was natural for Asians who came to the major leagues to achieve such results.
It was strange for a guy to achieve such ridiculous results.
Of course, that doesn’t mean Ji Maeng-ho is scary or anything like that. Judge, who was last year’s MVP and is still in good form this season, and Soto, who seemed to have prepared properly for this season after being shocked by last year’s poor performance, were scary, but Ji Maeng-ho was just amazed that an Asian player achieved such results.
Because he had a four-seamer that hit 100 mph on average and 95-96 mph on average.
‘I guess he achieved these results while dealing with pitchers with low velocity.’
Usually, the thing that hitters who used to play in Japan or Korea have the most trouble with when they come to the major leagues is their ability to deal with fastballs. Just like my teammate Seiya.
It was clear that there were not many pitchers playing in Japan or Korea who could throw 100 mph like him, and it was natural that hitters who had been playing in those leagues for a long time were weak against fastballs.
‘There is no record of hitting a fastball over 95 mph to hit a home run. It was all a curveball. I don’t think this guy would mind if I cooked him a fastball…’
The balls that Ji Maeng-ho has hit home runs with so far are slow fastballs and breaking balls. It was highly unlikely that he would hit a home run with his fastball traveling over 100 mph. Moreover, Ji Maeng-ho’s swing trajectory is an upper swing from the bottom up. He had such a hitting form that he was inevitably weak against high fastballs.
But is that high fastball the 100 mph fastball you throw? The possibility of being beaten by Ji Maeng-ho was close to zero.
But the problem is the batters behind them. Judge and Soto were people to watch out for, but Hall, a left-handed hitter with 5 home runs, was also one to watch out for.
‘First, Ji Maeng-ho cooks with a fastball, and the problem is Judge Soto and the hole…’
In this way, Miller concentrated on analyzing other batters while thinking about dealing with Ji Maeng-ho with a fastball,
[The New York Yankees, who are on a 9-game winning streak, and the Seattle Mariners, who have 5 wins and 4 losses, will face off here at Yankee Stadium.]
The game has come to a close.
[… Brady Singer prevents a crisis with 1 out and 1st and 3rd bases! The game turns to the Yankees’ offense in the bottom of the first inning.]
[… The Mariners’ starting pitcher is Bryce Miller, who has recorded 10 wins for three consecutive years. And the first batter to step up to the plate to face Miller is Maeng-Ho, Ji, who has been showing great performance recently. His season record is .408, 8 ERA, 7 home runs, and 21 RBI.]
‘Well, no matter how long it flies, you probably haven’t seen a ball as fast as mine.’
Miller, who came to the mound in the bottom of the first inning with the score at 0:0, chose a high fastball from the beginning, just as he had thought before the game.
“Ball.”
But you can see the results.
‘Yes, you are confident in being a leader, right? Or maybe I didn’t even dare to touch the ball.’
And once again, I chose a high fastball,
“Ball.”
The ball was called again this time.
‘Fuck! The referee today was determined not to catch high balls. Yes, it’s not just once or twice that the Yankees were pushed.’
I was a little annoyed because it wasn’t a strange pitch even if it was called a strike, but I knew that if I got angry at every single call like that, I wouldn’t be eligible to be a starting pitcher, so I changed my strategy a little and chose a slider.
‘After a high fastball, if it’s a slider that goes outside, you can’t swing the bat.’
This time, the third ball I threw with the intention of inducing a missed swing.
“Ball.”
However, this time, Ji Maeng-ho held back the bat and the count quickly reached three balls.
‘Fuck! Can you bear this? No, it’s not that I endured it, it’s that I couldn’t even dare to swing the bat. Yes, you can’t help but be scared when you see a ball like this.’
Miller consoled himself and chose a fastball for his fourth pitch.
“Base on balls.”
But is it because too much force is used due to the three-ball? Miller’s ball was close to his body and the ball was declared once again.
‘You coward. If you just stand there like that, you won’t last long in the big leagues.’
As Miller watched Meng Hao walk away without batting even once, he thought he was a coward,
‘Ugh, I’m already so scared that I just throw the ball. Tsk. I thought the Major League would be a little different… If this continues, I will have no choice but to run.’
Ji Maeng-ho also saw Miller giving up a straight walk and thought he was a coward and was preparing to start his legs.