Hanwha Eagles won KT Wiz by one point for two days and achieved the Winning Series.
Hanwha, led by head coach Kim Kyung-moon, won 4-3 against KT in the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on Sunday. With the victory, Hanwha achieved the winning series along with two consecutive wins and 13 losses overall for the season to move up to third place.카지노사이트
Despite poor balance early in the game, Ponce took charge of the mound until the seventh inning. He allowed three hits, three walks and five strikeouts in seven innings, and recorded seven scoreless innings for five consecutive wins. Han Seung-hyuk then allowed one scoreless inning, followed by Kim Jong-soo (⅓ innings) and Kim Bum-soo (⅓ innings), respectively, after Jeong Woo-ju's ⅓ innings, to secure holds and saves. Lee Jin-young stood out with three hits in the lineup.
Hanwha scored the first run in the bottom of the second inning. The leader Chae Eun-sung got on base with a left-handed double, and even Lee Jin-young made a heavy hit. Lee Jin-young took advantage of the center fielder's mistake in sending the ball to the second base, and runners on the second and third bases with no outs. Chae Eun-sung homered by Lee Do-yoon's sacrifice fly, and Lee Jin-young, who went to the third base, also homered by Choi Jae-hoon's sacrifice fly, and Hanwha took a 2-0 lead.
Ponce settled down throughout the innings, and Oh Won-seok also continued his good pitching, continuing the game without any change in score. Jang Sung-woo got on base with a left-handed hit in the top of the fourth inning, but Hwang Jae-gyun struck out and Moon Sang-cheol hit a double play to end the inning. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Noh Si-hwan and Chae Eun-sung struck out consecutively, and Lee Jin-young hit a double to the right, but failed to score additional points due to Lee Do-yoon's fly ball to the first base.
Even after six innings, Ponce and Oh Won-seok both scored 2-0. Ponce, who had already thrown 93 pitches until the sixth inning, took the mound in the top of the seventh inning as the game got longer. With the help of shortstop Shim Woo-joon's good defense, he handled Hwang Jae-gyun as a straight hit, gave Yoon Joon-hyuk a ground ball to shortstop, and gave Bae three strikeouts. When the bat was thrown to Bae's three-pitch fastball, Ponce roared loudly to wrap up his pitching on the day.
Hanwha, which took advantage of Ponce's strong pitching, scored two more runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and ran away. Oh Won-seok went down and Kim Min-soo's opponent Lee Jin-young hit a left-handed double to complete the three hits on the day, and Lee Won-seok advanced to the third base when Lee Do-yoon's sacrifice bunt faced off. Later, pinch hitter Hwang Young-mook was caught on a ground ball, but Lee Won-seok made it 3-0 by Shim Woo-joon's triple. Shim Woo-joon then came in on An Chi-hong's timely hit to the left, and the score was 4-0.
Hanwha, which opened its scoring, posted a must-win group, Han Seung-hyuk, at the top of the eighth inning. Han, who took the mound in the previous two games, pitched three consecutive games and cleared the inning with three outs. Rookie Jung Woo-joo took the mound in the top of the ninth inning. Jung Woo-joo grounded out Huh Kyung-min to the second base, gave Rojas a double to the right, gave Jang a straight walk, and gave up a run after Hwang Jae-gyun hit a double.
The closing pitcher Kim Seo-hyun was given a break due to consecutive pitching, and the Hanwha bench lowered Jung Woo-ju and raised Kim Jong-soo, but after Kim Min-hyuk's straight hit to the second base, he gave up two more points as he was hit to the right by Bae Jeong-dae. Oh Yoon-seok then sent the ball out to hit the body, and runners on the first and second bases. Here, Hanwha changed the pitcher again to Kim Bum-soo, and Kim Bum-soo drew a grounder to the third base from pinch hitter Jang Joon-won and ended the game as it was.
After the game, head coach Kim Kyung-moon said, "I was able to win because starter Ponce played his role perfectly without losing a point for seven innings," adding, "Even though today's must-win group is off, bullpen pitchers protected the victory, and I want to praise Lee Jin-young for his strong performance in the attack."