Last place in Hanwha's shock → 8 consecutive wins and 1st place, the coach was also surprised. I didn't know he would recover so quickly

May 07, 2025

Last place in Hanwha's shock → 8 consecutive wins and 1st place, the coach was also surprised. I didn't know he would recover so quickly
The Samsung-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 6th. Hanwha won 3-1, winning eight consecutive games. The players are giving high fives. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..5.6/



"Actually, I had my luggage at the time, but I didn't expect to recover this quickly."

It happened in just a month. From last place to joint first place. The veteran coach was also surprised.

The scariest team in the KBO League now is by far the Hanwha Eagles. He is threatening the LG Twins with a scary momentum in the early days of the opening period and has maintained almost 80% of the winning rate.




Hanwha won the Daejeon Samsung Lions 3-1 on the 6th and won eight consecutive games. It is already the second eight-game winning streak this season alone. Hanwha, which won its first eight consecutive games of the season from the Kiwoom Heroes in Daejeon on April 13 to the Lotte Giants in Busan on April 23, lost its second consecutive game after its winning streak was cut.

However, it quickly recovered. On April 26, he began building wins with a scary momentum from the match against KT Wiz in Daejeon, and secured at least a winning series to Samsung through KT, LG, KIA.

I even followed my luck. The winning streak has been prolonged and there have been more games to win, but most of them are tight games within one or two points, so bullpen pitchers were somewhat tired. But every time that happened, the weather helped. With the addition of an appropriate rainstorm, he took two breaks last week alone. It has become a divine move that gives players enough time to recover.




Last place in Hanwha's shock → 8 consecutive wins and 1st place, the coach was also surprised. I didn't know he would recover so quickly
Samsung-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 6th. Manager Kim Kyung-moon is watching the game. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..5.6/
Hanwha is tied for the lead with a winning percentage of 0.639 as of the 6th. As LG, which was so scary at the beginning of the opening, faltered, both teams won and lost 36 games side by side, with 23 wins and 13 losses.

All of this happened in just a month. Hanwha fell to the bottom due to a slump in its batting lineup early in the opening period. The team was also ranked 10th until April 9, about a month ago.

However, the central lineup's ability to solve the problem was revived, centering on Noh Si-hwan and Esteban Floral, and after Kim Seo-hyun's closing conversion, key bullpen pitchers including Han Seung-hyuk, Park Sang-won and Jung Woo-joo played their roles, and they began to build wins with a scary momentum. Above all, Hanwha's biggest advantage is by far its starting lineup. Starting with Cody Ponce, who is the strongest foreign pitcher in the league, Ryan Weiss, Ryu Hyun-jin, Um Sang-baek and Moon Dong-ju are so solid that there are few consecutive losses and long winning streaks.




Last place in Hanwha's shock → 8 consecutive wins and 1st place, the coach was also surprised. I didn't know he would recover so quickly
The Samsung-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 6th. Hanwha won 3-1, winning eight consecutive games. The players are giving high fives. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..5.6/
Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon, a veteran among the veterans, also said the crisis at the beginning of the season was not easy. Manager Kim said, `When the season first started, there was a burden"I turned back.

Hanwha, which started the season ambitiously by recruiting Um Sang-baek and Shim Woo-joon along with the opening of the new stadium. Although he was evaluated and expected to be a strong candidate for the fifth round, he remained at the bottom of the list as his pace did not rise as expected in the early days of the opening, and there was a lot of anxiety. It was a painful time when head coach Kim Kyung-moon felt burdened.

But the period did not last long. Director Kim said, `I'm also surprised that I recovered so quickly. It came up faster than expected in April, and players are making results in a difficult game even though they said May's start was important. Thank you very much for that."

Hanwha is aiming to win nine consecutive games for the first time in 20 years since 2005. The most encouraging thing is that they are meeting the conditions of a strong team one by one, which is more important than the record of consecutive wins.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.