'Turtle Back Clap' Kim Do-young's palm, batting coach is banned from special hitting and night training in the end
'Turtle Back Clap' Kim Do-young's palm, batting coach is banned from special hitting and night training in the end
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Kim Do-young (22) of the Kia Tigers has recently been banned from special hitting training. At the Kia Spring camp in Irvine, California, the U.S., Kim was warned not to take extra special hitting or night hitting exercises other than regular hitting drills. Because of her palm condition.
Within days of the start of the camp, KIA batting coach Hong Se-wan saw Kim Do-young's severely injured palms. Most batters' palms are not normal. When swinging countless times while holding the bat, not only do his palms get calluses, but they can also cause bleeding. However, Kim's palms were torn and cracked much more seriously than those of other batters he has often seen.
Kim, the MVP of last year's regular season, spent a busy winter attending all award ceremonies related to baseball even after participating in the Premier 12 after the Korean Series as a winner. He could not fit his personal routine after taking a few days off, getting fit and going into technical training after completing his schedule at the end of the season. Kim returned to Gwangju in mid-December when he completed his schedule for the event in Seoul, and took just one day off to start exercising. He hardly had time to rest, but he apparently suffered a deep scar in his palm as he increased the amount of practice he practiced much later than before.
"I told him not to hit the extra-base hit because how long he had been practicing, and it was torn and cracked much more than usual," KIA batting coach Hong Se-wan said. "However, his pace is very good now. He has made it well. If you keep hitting your palm like that, it may fester later and you may not be able to hold the bat at all. Then you have to take a few days off, but if it hurts, you may lose good balance, so I told him not to hit it."
However, taking a rest is not Kim Do-young. After all, Coach Hong instructed her not to take extra time and night batting training sessions. "I am not allowing her to take extra time except for basic batting training sessions. I am always checking on her not to do this much because she might lose her pace," Hong said.
"Take a rest in December. Take a slow preparation in January as well," KIA manager Lee Bum-ho said after the end of the last season. During the championship season for Kia, Kim played full-time for the first time since its debut, setting various records including 30 homers and 30 steals, and pouring a lot of energy into the team. Kim told her to take a good rest since she started exercising in mid-December, and she came to the spring camp with her pace elevated to the point where even the batting coach saw her.
People are asking him to take his time in the camp as well. Kim was the latest to start preparation even during the last season when he showed explosive power. After undergoing surgery for a finger injury while participating in the Asian Baseball Championship after the 2023 season, Kim started batting training at the end of the first camp in Australia. After conducting batting training in earnest at the second camp in Japan, where other players are participating in practice games, he started practicing in exhibition games and started the regular season. Kia is asking him not to overdo it now because he hit the ball well enough.
Kim Do-young, who has shown his natural talent in baseball three years after his debut, is also a great player of endeavor. He is greedy when it comes to baseball. "Look at his knees. I run and slide when I go out even though I am so tired of it," KIA manager Lee Bum-ho once said during the last season. He has shown his grit to endure pain even when it bleeds for baseball, and he can't hide it even in the U.S. spring camp, which Kim left after becoming the best in the KBO league. 먹튀검증