Kim Myung-sung (Korean: 김명성; born April 8, 1988) is a South Koreanpitcher. He bats and throwsright-handed. Kim was selected fifth overall by theLotte Giants in the 2011KBO Draft.

Kim was born inSeoul, and completed his mediocre high school career at Jangchung High School inSeoul, where his main position was aninfielder. Kim went undrafted in the 2007 KBO Draft, and enrolled atChung-Ang University to continue his baseball career.

Kim began his collegiate career as athird baseman in2007, but the freshman infielder, who had a weak bat but a strong arm, converted from a position player to a pitcher.

Kim broke out in the2009 season with a 5–2 record and a 2.71 ERA, appearing in 16 games as a starting pitcher. In July, he was called up to theSouth Korean national baseball team for the2009 Asian Baseball Championship held inSapporo,Japan. In the championship, Kim made only one appearance for the team, tossing 0.1 innings of relief againstTeam Japan.

Kim had another strong season in2010, posting a record of 6–0 and an ERA of 1.72 and allowing only one home run in 68 innings pitched. In July 2010, Kim was called up to play for Korea in the Korea-USA Baseball Championship Series. He started in Game 2 of the series and hurled 5.1 innings of two-run ball with 5 strikeouts againstTeam USA. On September 6, Kim was selected as the only amateur player of the final 24 members for the2010 Asian Games inGuangzhou,China.^[1] Kim tossed 2.1 shutout innings in South Korea's 17-0 win overPakistan in the group round of thebaseball tournament at the Asian Games, allowing only one hit and racking up three strikeouts.

Year	Venue	Competition	Team	Individual Note
2009	Japan	Asian Baseball Championship		0-0; 0.00 ERA (1 G, 0.1 IP, 0 ER)
2010	United States	South Korea vsUSA Baseball Championship	0W-5L	0-1; 3.00 ERA (2 G, 6.0 IP, 2 ER, 5 K)
2010	China	Asian Games		1-0; 0.00 ERA (1 G, 2.1 IP, 0 ER, 3 K)

• Korea Baseball Organization career statistics atKoreabaseball.com(in Korean)

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