The Hanwha Eagles’ fall baseball season may have ended, but Hanwha Group Chairman Kim Seung-yeon’s love for the game hasn’t. This year, he visited a baseball stadium for the ninth time to cheer on the team.
Hanwha sold out all seats (12,000) for its home game against the SSG Landers of the 2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon, South Korea, at 3:11 p.m. on Nov. 28. It was the 46th home game of the season to sell out, surpassing the previous record of 36 set by Samsung in 1995. 46 out of 70 home games were sold out for a 65.7% sellout rate. With a total attendance of 792,204 fans and an average attendance of 11,317 fans, the seat occupancy rate reached 94.7%.
Chairman Kim Seung-yeon also took part in the final baseball outing of the season. “Chairman Kim Seung-yeon will visit Hanwha Life Eagles Park for the last time this season. Despite being eliminated from the postseason, he came to thank the fans for their unwavering love for the Eagles throughout the regular season and to support the players and coaching staff who never gave up on winning until the end.”
Kim has consistently traveled to Daejeon to cheer on the Hanwha players from the beginning to the end of the season. He is known as the “Victory Fairy” by fans because of his high winning percentage every time he visits the ballpark.
Kim’s first visit to the ballpark this season was on March 29 against KT in Daejeon’s home opener.
At the time, Lim Jong-chan’s walk-off double in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Hanwha a 3-2 victory and sparked a five-game winning streak.
On May 10, Hanwha went to the Kiwoom Heroes game with 500 employees to cheer up the team, which was on a three-game losing streak. Jonathan Peraza hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Hanwha a 5-4 victory and end the three-game losing streak.
On June 7, he came to the ballpark to support newly appointed coach Kim Kyung-moon against the NC Dinos, and a week later, he had three more clairvoyances in June, against the SSG Landers on June 14 and the Doosan Bears on June 27. 카지노사이트 They lost the NC and SSG games, but the Doosan game marked the resurgence of the winning fairy thanks to Noh Si-hwan’s five-hit blast, including a home run.
The first game of the second half was against the LG Twins on July 12, and Hanwha won again thanks to Moon Dong-joo’s seven-inning no-hitter. Then, on July 9 against Daejeon Kiwoom, the team won 7-5 thanks to Hwang Young-mook’s game-winning hit in the seventh inning.
Although Hanwha lost to KT on March 31 and SSG on the same day, the team’s nine-game record at the time of Kim’s visit was 5-4 with a .556 winning percentage. This is much higher than their season winning percentage (.468).
After the game,
Kim came down to the field and shook hands with all the players, including head coach Kim Kyung-moon, to encourage them. He responded to the cheers of the home crowd with a hand kiss and a smile.
Chairman Kim is not only encouraging the team, but also providing practical support. On June 27, he presented the latest mobile smart TVs to each player to help them improve their performance. It is expected that he will continue to support the baseball team in the era of the new baseball stadium Baseball Dream Park (tentative name) next year.