In a game against the Cincinnati Reds in the 2024 Major League Baseball regular season at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio on the 24th (Korea Standard Time), Kim Ha-sung started the game as the eighth batter and shortstop, and recorded one hit, one walk and two steals from three times at bat. San Diego won the game 6-4 after a close game that lasted until the 10th inning of overtime.

Kim Ha-sung was excluded from the starting lineup for the first time this season against Cincinnati on the 23rd. He stopped playing in 51 consecutive games and took a day off, and succeeded in getting on base from his first at-bat. He walked straight against Cincinnati starter Frankie Montas in the top of the second inning with no outs and runners on the second and third bases when San Diego led 2-1. When Kyle Higashioka grounded out to shortstop in a chance to load the bases with no outs, Kim Ha-sung was out at second base.

Kim Ha-sung, who hit his second at-bat as a leadoff hitter in the top of the fourth inning with San Diego leading 4-2, struck out in four pitches by Montas.

Kim Ha-sung, who met Montas again in the top of the sixth inning with one out and one on first base, hit a splitter in the fifth pitch in the ball count of 2-2, hitting a grounder to shortstop, leaving the leading runner out and he survived on first base.

When Higashioka was at bat with two outs and a runner on first base, Kim started at the timing of Montas' second fastball and stole the second base. He stole his 12th base of the season.

With two outs and a runner on the second base, he stole the third base while throwing the cutter at the fourth pitch. The catcher took the timing so perfectly that he couldn't even throw. He stole his 13th stolen base in this season.

With two outs and a runner on third base, Higashioka had a tenacious game to reach as many as nine pitches, but was struck out by rookie strikeouts. Kim Ha-sung's efforts to create a chance with two steals in an inning also faded. San Diego, which missed a chance to run away, allowed a 4-4 tie after De Los Santos took the mound in the bottom of the sixth inning with a two-run shot by Nick Martini from the NC Dinos.

At the last at-bat in the ninth inning, Kim created another run-scoring chance. He hit Cincinnati's bullpen pitcher Alexis Diaz's first pitch slider with one out and no runner at the batter's box, hitting a double that cut through the left-center gap. However, he was out due to the pitcher's check when the next batter, Luis Campusano, was out. With one out and a runner on the second base, the chance turned into a situation where there were no runners on the second base, and Campusano struck out swinging and striking out. For San Diego, Jeremiah Estrada struck out three in the bottom of the ninth inning, bringing the game to extra time.

Luis Arraez's hit and Fernando Tatis Jr. hit an RBI double in the top of the 10th inning to break the balance. Jurickson Profar's intentional walk made it to the base with no outs and the bases loaded, and Jake Cronen Worth's sacrifice fly RBI single made the score 6-4. Closing pitcher Robert Suarez, who took over the mound in the bottom of the 10th inning, faced a crisis with a walk to the first and second bases after striking out the first batter, but he defended his victory by blocking Cincinnati's last attack with two fly balls.

Kim Ha-sung, who added another hit in two games, saw his batting average rise slightly from 0.214 to 0.216 and OPS from 0.696 to 0.704. Kim Ha-sung, who stole the base five times in the last five games, tied for fifth in the National League stolen base category with Shohei Ohtani (LA Dodgers) and Bryson Stat (Philadelphia Phillies) with 13 steals in the season.

BY: 토토사이트