An 8-year-old child who grew up admiring BK Kim Byung-hyun 44 is challenging the World Series stage for the first time in 22 years wearing the same Arizona Diamondbacks uniform after a long time. 토토사이트 The main character is Arizona right-handed underhander Ryan Thompson, 31.

Arizona won a thrilling 6-5 come-from-behind victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the 2023 Major League Postseason National League Championship Series NLCS at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, on the 21st.

With both teams predicting bullpen day, the blue-eyed pitcher, who took the mound as Arizona's sixth pitcher, somehow blocked the Philadelphia lineup by allowing two hits, two walks, three strikeouts and one run in two innings with a familiar pitching form. The movement as if he was kicking after pitching was like looking at Kim Byung-hyun in the past, which was no coincidence.

John Morosi of the U.S. media MLB Network said on his SNS before Game 4 of the NLCS, Thompson said that former Arizona closer Kim Byung-hyun inspired him to throw as a sidearm.

A native of Oregon on the west coast of the United States, Thompson was a fan of Arizona as a child. At that time, Arizona was one of the best teams to reach the postseason in its second year and win the World Series in its fourth year, and Thompson naturally fell in love with it. Numerous stars were lined up, including Randy Johnson-Kurt Schilling one-two punch, Steve Finley, the epitome of the Hotajun tribe, and Luis Gonzalez, who had 57 home runs and 142 RBIs. However, it was the rattlesnake's special finisher Kim Byung-hyun that caught Thompson's attention.

Kim Byung-hyun was a rising star who broke through the minor league in three months as soon as he joined Arizona in 1999, called up to the Major League, and took the finishing position from the following year. In 2001, when Arizona won the World Series with its unique pitching form, despite being an underhand player, he was active with 5 wins, 6 losses, 19 saves and a 2.94 ERA in 78 games. In 2002, he recorded a career high season with eight wins, three losses and 36 saves in 72 games and a 2.04 ERA.

He started walking down the road as an underhand pitcher while imitating Kim Byung-hyun's pitching form, and perhaps that's why Thompson's pitching form has traces of Kim Byung-hyun. Campbell, an alma mater who interviewed Thompson during the Tampa Bay Rays, said, Those who see Thompson's pitches can immediately notice his unusual pitching form. Thompson was a big Arizona fan as a child and liked submarine closer Kim Byung-hyun, who won the 2001 World Series. I mimicked Kim Byung-hyun's pitching mechanism to give more movement to the ball when I played wipple ball in the yard with my friends, he said.

Thompson's underhand pitching form was not welcome. But high school coaches also noticed that Thompson showed the most stable form when he followed Kim Byung-hyun. Although he did not receive attention in high school, he led the NCAA National University Sports Association tournament and won in two years at Campbell University with 16 wins, 3 losses and 27 saves and a 1.12 ERA in 70 games. For that achievement, he was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 23rd round of the 2014 Rookie Draft.

The career has not been smooth. He failed to stand out for four years in the Houston Minor League, and to make matters worse in 2018, he underwent elbow ligament conjugation surgery Tommy John Surgery. Since then, he has headed to Tampa Bay through the Rule 5 draft and enjoyed the luck of making his major league debut in 2020 and taking the World Series stage.

He played with a 1.93 ERA in nine games in his first postseason, but failed to win the World Series behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. After playing as a bullpen for Tampa Bay for two seasons, he was released with a 6.11 ERA in 18 games this season.

The release was rather a blessing in disguise for Thompson. Arizona, his childhood favorite, took Thompson to a minor contract in August, and he succeeded in making a comeback here with a 0.69 ERA in 13 games and nine strikeouts in 13 innings.

Arizona advanced to the postseason in the second place in the National League West with 84 wins and 78 losses in the regular season and third place in the wild card. Since then, he has been showing no rough moves. After lightly defeating the Milwaukee Brewers, the winner of the National League Central, with two wins and no losses in the wild card series, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the winner of the Western Division, defeated them with three consecutive wins in the division series, reaching the championship series for the first time in 16 years since 2007.

He is also aiming to advance to the World Series for the second time since 2001 by tying the series record with two consecutive come-from-behind wins after two losses in the Philadelphia Phillies and the Championship Series. Thompson also has a 3.38 ERA in six postseason games, contributing to that move. Baseball fans are paying attention to whether the young boy, who watched Arizona's first championship, will be able to reach the top of the World Series on his own this time.