A 'great reversal' → A huge explosion of four home runs in four games, is it real

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Patrick Wisdom (35), who played as a foreign hitter for the KIA Tigers last season, hit four home runs in just four minor league games. In other words, he hit one home run per game.

Wisdom started as the fifth designated hitter in the 2026 minor league home game against El Paso Chihuahua at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Washington on the 1st (Korea time), and played 2 hits in 3 at-bats (one home run), one RBI, one run and one walk.

Wisdom is playing for the Tacoma Rainiers, a minor league triple-A club under the Seattle Mariners, without being listed on the major league opening roster.

In the bottom of the second inning, Wisdom got on base with a left-handed hit, but failed to score due to a failure of a follow-up hit. Wisdom stepped down with a fly ball to center field in the bottom of the fifth inning. His home run came in the bottom of the sixth inning when his team was trailing 2-6. In the absence of a runner with two outs, he hit a slider that entered the lowest zone in the fifth pitch with a ball count of 2-2 against Logan Gilaspi and connected it with a solo shot in left-center. The distance is 440 feet (about 134 meters). The batting speed is 111.2 miles (about 179 km/h). The angle of launch was 25 degrees.

It was Wisdom's fourth home run in the minor leagues this season. Wisdom completed the third base game with a walk in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Wisdom had two hits, one home run, two RBIs, and two walks in three at-bats against the Arizona Diamondbacks' Triple-A club, the Reno Ashes, on the 28th of last month. He was silent on the 29th with no hits in four at-bats, but he made a multi-home run against Lee Know on the 30th. He made two hits in four at-bats (two home runs) with four RBIs and one walk. And in the game, he hit home runs in two consecutive games, showing off his strength of "four home runs in four games."

After the game, Wisdom played in four games and recorded a batting average of 0.429 (6 hits in 14 at-bats) with four home runs, eight RBIs, five runs, four walks, an on-base percentage of 0.556, a slugging percentage of 1.286 and an on-base percentage of 1.417 (on-base percentage + slugging percentage). He struck out only once.

Meanwhile, Wisdom made his major league debut in 2018 after being drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals with the 52nd overall pick in the first round in the 2012 rookie draft. In his first year, he played in 32 games and posted a batting average of 0.260 (13 hits in 50 at-bats), four homers, 10 RBIs, and an OPS of 0.882. Since then, he has played 106 games in the 2021 season with the Texas Rangers and the Chicago Cubs, batting .231 (78 for 338) with 28 homers and 61 RBIs with an OPS of .823.

In the 2022 season, he played in 134 games, the most in his career, and marked a batting average of 0.207 (97 hits in 469 at-bats) with 25 home runs and 66 RBIs with an OPS of 0.724. Since then, he has played 97 games in the 2023 season and 75 games in the 2024 season, and has been notified of his release by the Chicago Cubs prior to the 2025 season. The team that reached out to him is the KIA Tigers. He entered Gwangju by signing a contract with Wisdom for a total of $1 million, including a down payment of $200,000 and an annual salary of $800,000.

As a result, Wisdom played in 119 games last season and posted a batting average of 0.236 (100 hits in 424 at-bats), 35 homers and doubles, one triple, 85 RBIs and 73 runs, three steals (failed), a ball with 52 walks and four bodies, 142 strikeouts, a slugging percentage of 0.535, an on-base percentage of 0.321, and an OPS of 0.856. He still had a big shot instinct, but some said he was weak in chances. His batting average also fell short of expectations. He was the lowest batting average among 43 players who met the regulation. In the end, KIA notified Wisdom of the breakup after the end of the 2025 season, and recruited Harold Castro as a new foreign hitter.

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