Kim Kyung-moon leads the Korean Baseball Organization’s Hanwha Eagles to Changwon, where they will look for their first win against the NC Dinos.
Hanwha will host the NC Dinos at Changwon NC Park on Sunday. The three-game series was originally scheduled to be played from the 16th to the 18th, but the game on the 16th was rained out.
The series will be highlighted by Kim Kyung-moon’s visit to Changwon.
Kim took over as the first head coach of NC in 2011 when the organization was founded. Under his leadership, the team quickly grew from strength to strength, finishing third in 2014, just two years after entering the first team. By the time he left the team during the 2018 season, he had amassed 384 wins (14 ties and 342 losses) with NC.
Changwon holds a lot of memories for Kim, as he was there with the young NC players who were just getting their feet wet.
Now he faces NC as an ‘enemy field’. After stepping down as NC’s head coach, Kim, who also served as a national team coach, returned to the field with Hanwha on March 2. He has yet to win against NC.
In their first meeting in Daejeon on July 7-9 last month, they went down to their knees with a 1-1 draw and a 2-2 loss. 메이저사이트 It was a three-game series in Daejeon, Kim’s new “home stadium,” and he didn’t win a single game, only seeing his “old team” grow.
The reunion in Changwon was another battle for victory.
Moreover, Hanwha has been an absolute underdog against NC this year, with one win, two draws, and five losses. NC is the only team Hanwha has beaten this year. As Hanwha looks to make a run at the postseason, it will be important for them to end their “natural enemies” to help them in the standings.
Hanwha will start Jamie Barria on the mound today.
Since making his debut in a Hanwha uniform last month as a substitute, Barria is 3-2 with a 3.75 ERA in seven games. Despite making his KBO debut during the season, he has been steady, posting three quality starts (QS) in which he allowed three earned runs or less over six innings.
This will be his first start against the NC.
Starting against Barria will be Daniel Castano. He is 7-5 with a 4.26 ERA in 17 games this year.
In two appearances against Hanwha, he is 1-0 with a 3.46 ERA.