Five billion won FA silence is over! Ponce's KBO debut was also successful...Hanwha wins its first exhibition game with SSG

Mar 10, 2025

An exhibition game between SSG Landers and Hanwha Eagles at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. Hanwha Shim Woo-joon is catching his breath. Incheon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.10/

An exhibition game between SSG Landers and Hanwha Eagles at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. Hanwha Ponce is talking with head coach Kim Kyung-moon after taking the mound. Incheon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.10/

Hanwha Eagles won their first exhibition game.

Hanwha won the exhibition game against SSG Landers 3-1 at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. Hanwha won its first exhibition game. SSG is one win and two losses.

On this day, Hanwha formed the starting lineup in the order of Lee Jin-young (left-winger), Choi In-ho (designated hitter), Esteban Floral (middle fielder), Noh Si-hwan (third baseman), Chae Eun-sung (first baseman), An Chi-hong (second baseman), Lim Jong-chan (right fielder), Choi Jae-hoon (possessed) and Shim Woo-jun (striker).

For SSG, Jihoon Choi (center fielder), Jung Joon-jae (second baseman), Choi Jung (third baseman), Guillermo Herredia (left fielder), Han Yu-sum (right fielder), Park Sung-han (striker), Ko Myung-joon (first baseman), Lee Ji-young (captor), and Park Ji-hwan (designated hitter) started.

Hanwha got the first run. After one out in the top of the third inning, consecutive doubles by Choi In-ho and Floral took a 1-0 lead.

An exhibition game between SSG Landers and Hanwha Eagles at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. Hanwha Shim Woo-joon is taking a hit. Incheon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.10/

An extra point followed in the top of the third inning. Lim Jong-chan doubled while leadoff hitter An Chi-hong went out with a hit ball. With runners on second and third bases with no outs, SSG lowered its starter Song Young-jin and raised Kim Geon-woo. Hanwha's Choi Jae-hoon stepped down with a fly ball to right field, but Shim Woo-joon's two-run timely hit widened the score to 3-0. Shim Woo-joon, who became an FA after the end of last season and moved from KT Wiz to Hanwha, also broke his silence for two consecutive games.

SSG broke its silence in the bottom of the sixth inning. Two outs later, Herredia hit a hit, and a wild pitch came out to second base. In the end, Han Yu-sum's timely hit in front of right field narrowed the gap to 1-3.

An exhibition game between SSG Landers and Hanwha Eagles at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 10th. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Hanwha starter Ponce is smiling as he comes down from the mound with one out. Incheon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.10/

From then on, it was up to the pitcher. While new foreign pitcher Ponce pitched four scoreless innings, Jung Woo-ju (⅓ scoreless innings), Kwon Min-gyu (one scoreless inning), Kim Do-bin (one scoreless ⅓ inning), Kim Bum-soo (⅓ scoreless innings), Park Bu-sung (one scoreless inning), Park Sang-won (one scoreless inning) and Joo Hyun-sang (one scoreless inning) came up one after another to keep the mound.

In SSG, Song Young-jin (3 runs in 3 innings), Kim Gun-woo (3 scoreless innings), Choi Hyun-seok (1 scoreless inning), Han Doo-sol (1 scoreless inning), and Park Si-hoo (1 scoreless inning) took the mound in turn.

SSG created chances for first and second base with Shin Bum-soo's walk and Park Ji-hwan's at-bat after two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, but failed to score.

The two teams will face off for the second time in the same place on the 11th.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.

Five billion won FA silence is over! Ponce's KBO debut was also successful...Hanwha wins its first exhibition game with SSG

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