Ahead of the Kiwoom match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 14th, Kim said, "What is the point of introducing the game for the first time in the world? There are a lot of complaints in the field. I can't believe it," adding, "I don't know what the criteria is. It doesn't make sense that different stadiums have different strike zones."토토사이트

In the fifth inning with no outs and runners on first base, Kiwoom starter Kim Sun-ki threw a slider on the third pitch to Lotte's Jeon Joon-woo and was ruled as a strike. Kim's judgment is that it fell to the bottom of the strike zone. Then, Kim approached the umpires and asked them about the result of the decision. Later, when Kim returned to the dugout, Kiwoom manager Hong Won-ki came out. It was possible to ask the umpire about the result of the decision.

"I asked if the ball really came into the strike zone. How different would the pitch be?" he complained.

"A wild decision should not interfere with our performance. When we talked about the strike zone with referees in the past, they said, "This side is close, the other side is far." There was nothing absurd. "Batters are sensitive about judgment. I don't understand leaving the judgment to the robot," he said.  

ABS was introduced in Korea for the first time among professional leagues. The standard for strike zones is that both sides of home plate are enlarged by 2 centimeters. The height ratio of players at the top and bottom is 56.35 percent at the top and 27.64 percent at the bottom.

Kim criticized the idea of letting the robot make decisions in order to eliminate disputes over the decision. "I was told that robot referees were allowed to speak less, but now the controversy seems to have grown because of robot referees," Kim said. "We should not let absurd things interfere with our performance."