A spectacular run was enough to make him a star.
Kim Do-young has been named the 2024 KBO League Monthly MVP for June. Kim received 6 out of 30 journalists’ votes (20.7%) and 245,598 out of 507,615 fan votes (48.4%) for a total of 34.54 points, topping Kiwoom’s Kim Hye-sung, who received 13 journalists’ votes and 47,854 fan votes for a total of 27.13 points. This is the second time Kim has won the award in the first half of the year after being named the monthly MVP in March and April.
After becoming the KBO League’s first 10-homer, 10-stolen base monthly player in April, Kim recorded his first 20-homer, 20-stolen base game of the season and 57th of his career on June 23 against the Gwangju Hanwha DH. He is the fifth player in history to reach 20-20 in the first half of the season and the fourth player in history to do so, joining Park Jae-hong, Lee Byung-kyu, and Themz.
In 24 games in the month of June,
Kim had 32 hits, eight home runs (second) and 27 runs scored (first), 온라인카지노사이트 while also ranking in the top 10 across the board in hitting metrics, including a 1.149 OPS with a .681 on-base percentage (third) and .468 slugging percentage (fourth) to rank second in the division. He recorded a hit in 19 of his 24 games in June, including three three-hit games and 10 multi-hit games.
This is the first time in nearly two years that Lee has won two monthly MVP awards in the same year, as he was honored in June and September of 2022.
As the June MVP, Kim will receive a trophy with a cash prize of KRW 2 million and a KRW 2 million donation to his alma mater, Gwangju Dongseong Middle School, courtesy of Shinhan Bank.