Seoul: Even when his Hanwha Eagles were trailing the Kiwoom Heroes 4-1 midway through their Korea Baseball Organization game Friday night in Seoul, Moon Hyun-bin had the full confidence that his team could come back and win.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Moon had a big hand in making that happen, delivering a go-ahead solo home run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to lift the Eagles to a 7-5 victory at Gocheok Sky Dome. He also had an RBI hit and a sacrifice fly for a three-RBI day.
The win stretched the Eagles' winning streak to 10 games, their longest since 1999-five years before Moon was born. They are sitting pretty atop the standings at 25-13-0 (wins-losses-ties), 1.5 games ahead of the LG Twins.
"I think we all felt in the dugout that we could rally today," Moon said. "Even when we're behind these days, it doesn't feel like we're trailing. There was this feeling among us that we could win this game."
After the Heroes pounded out two solo home runs in the bottom of the first, it was Moon's RBI single in the top third that put the Eagles on the board. Moon then plated the tying run with a sacrifice fly in the top seventh to make it a 4-4 game, before putting the Eagles ahead for good with his solo blast in the ninth.
It was his seventh home run of the season, already a career high by two for the third-year pro. Moon has now gone deep three times in his last four games. Through 36 games this year, Moon is batting .314/.368/.545-all of which would be new career highs if he kept that up.