Park Byung-ho of the Samsung Lions turned the third participant in South Korean baseball to hit 400 residence runs Wednesday.
Park belted his four-hundredth homer to guide off the underside of the second inning in opposition to the Doosan Bears of their Korea Baseball Group regular-season sport at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu, some 230 kilometers southeast of Seoul.
Park drove a forkball from Bears starter Choi Seung-yong over the right-center subject fence for the milestone. He has now homered in 4 consecutive video games.
Park is third on the all-time residence run record right here. Choi Jeong of the SSG Landers turned the brand new residence run king on April 24 this 12 months along with his 468th residence run and he entered Wednesday’s motion with 491.
Former Lions slugger and present Bears supervisor Lee Seung-yuop is in second place with 467.
Amongst energetic gamers, Choi Hyoung-woo of the Kia Tigers is poised to be the subsequent participant to achieve the 400-homer plateau, as he had 394 earlier than Wednesday.
Park, 38, is a late bloomer who debuted with the LG Twins in 2005 however did not change into an on a regular basis participant till a midseason commerce to the Nexen (at the moment Kiwoom) Heroes in 2011. He was voted the common season MVP in 2012 and 2013, simply the fourth participant in KBO historical past to win back-to-back MVP awards.
Park has received a document six residence run titles, and is the one participant to guide the KBO in homers in 4 consecutive seasons, having completed so from 2012 to 2015.
Park launched 52 homers in 2014 after which had 53 the next 12 months. No different KBO participant has hit 50 or extra homers in consecutive seasons.
After the 2015 season with the Heroes, Park signed with the Minnesota Twins in Main League Baseball. He had 12 residence runs in 62 video games with them in 2016 however spent the whole 2017 season within the minor leagues earlier than rejoining the Heroes for the 2018 season.
Park signed with the KT Wiz as a free agent following the 2021 marketing campaign. Then in Might this 12 months, he demanded a commerce from the Wiz over some variations with the teaching workers over his function. The Wiz granted him his want and shipped him to the Lions.
Park solely had three residence runs in 44 video games for the Wiz earlier than the commerce, and has hit 17 homers in 62 video games for the Lions.
