I avoided Monster Wall! The first home run is a bases-loaded walk…The first home run of the new stadium was born with a 153km fastball

Mar 06, 2025

Kwon Kwang-min at bat against the Australian national team at the first spring camp in Melbourne, Australia. Photo courtesy = Hanwha Eagles

The first home run at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon.

Hanwha Eagles played a practice game at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 6th.

Hanwha Life Ballpark opened on the 5th. The first official game is an exhibition game against the Samsung Lions on the 17th. The home opener of the regular season is a game against the KIA Tigers on the 28th.

Hanwha's team, which returned from spring camp on the 4th, began adapting to the new stadium on the 6th. Training was conducted in the morning, and in the afternoon, the first team and the Futures team were divided into practice games.

It's unofficial, but a home run came out from the first game.

Kwon Kwang-min, who took the batter's box with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning with a 5-3 lead, hit a 153km fastball formed in the lower part of the strike zone thrown by Won Jong-hyuk with the first pitch. The hit became a home run over the left fence of the Monster Wall, which is 8 meters high.

Hanwha Life Ballpark has an asymmetric structure, 95 meters away from the right pole and 99 meters away from the left pole. To compensate for the short distance to the right, an 8-meter-high monster wall was installed to make it difficult to hit a home run to the right.

photo courtesy of Hanwha Eagles

Kwon Kwang-min, who signed with the Chicago Cubs after graduating from Jangchung High School and challenged the major league stage, was named as a rookie draft target in 2022 and was nominated by Hanwha in the second fifth round (41st overall).

He played in 32 games in his first year as a professional and had a batting average of .225 and finished the season with a batting average of .151 and two home runs in 66 games in 2023.

Last year, he played in 45 games for Futures and had a batting average of 213 home runs and nine steals, while he was called up to the first team in September and hit 271 four home runs in 19 games.

He was an outfielder and will take the first base this year. You can also register for a position and play an infielder.

After completing the final real-life inspection on the day, Hanwha will play its first exhibition game against the Doosan Bears at Cheongju Stadium on the 8th after practice on the 7th.