LOS ANGELES — Since he was known as as much as the massive leagues about two weeks in the past, Hyeseong Kim has been fairly the affect participant for the Dodgers.
From Wednesday’s victory over the A’s by Friday evening’s 6-2 loss to the Angels at Dodger Stadium, Kim reached base in 9 straight plate appearances, racking up seven hits — together with his first Main League homer — and two walks. He scored 5 runs in that span.
Based on the Elias Sports activities Bureau, Kim’s streak tied Corey Seager (2015) for essentially the most consecutive plate appearances reaching base by a Dodgers rookie because the workforce moved to L.A. in 1958. Kim’s streak got here to an finish when he grounded out to first base within the eighth.
The Dodgers’ offense had been on a roll earlier than being quieted by Angels starter Jack Kochanowicz within the Freeway Sequence opener, a surge in manufacturing that supervisor Dave Roberts had attributed to the underside of the order.
Probably the most telling statistics about how the underside of the order was performing early on: Leadoff hitter Shohei Ohtani had taken solely seven plate appearances with runners in scoring place by the Dodgers’ first 17 video games.
In a good smaller pattern, Kim has been transformative in that regard. Ohtani has 29 RBIs this season, and the Dodger he is pushed in essentially the most — apart from himself — is Kim (5 runs). As destiny would have it, Kim’s on-base streak ended simply earlier than Ohtani left the yard towards his former workforce for his MLB-leading sixteenth homer.
