"I've been waiting for this moment"" Hanwha Wang Yancheng's storm sobbing "Why" and his first win in the first division in the seventh year → "The next tear is in the Korean Series."

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"I've been waiting for this moment a lot."

Although he dreamed of becoming a baseball player, it was not easy to reach the professional first team. It's my 7th year as a professional. My family even came from Taiwan to celebrate my first victory in unfamiliar Korean land. Wang Yancheng (25, Hanwha Eagles) couldn't stop crying for a long time.

Wang Yan-cheng started the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League home game against the Kiwoom Heroes at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 29th and threw 95 pitches in five ⅓ innings, allowing four hits, two outs, five strikeouts, and three runs. With the team winning 10-4, Wang Yancheng won his first KBO league debut and his first victory in the professional first team.

Wang Yancheng started as a nurturing player with the Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Japanese professional baseball league (NPB) in 2019, and spent most of his career in the second division. The Asian quarter system, which was newly established since this season, became an opportunity. Hanwha was the first to announce the contract by moving quickly.

Although he signed a small amount of $100,000 a year (about 150 million won) for a professional player, the Korean land was a stage for a new opportunity for Wang Yancheng.

Since the spring camp, he has played well in succession by mixing curves, sliders (sweeper) and folk balls with a fastball of nearly 150 kilometers per hour, and in the exhibition game, he played with an ERA of 2.92 in 12 ⅓ innings in three games, eventually securing a starting rotation.

He used up eight bullpen pitchers with an extended blood fight victory in the 11th inning of the previous day. Wang Yancheng had to play as long an inning as possible. He gave up two runs in the second inning, but he blocked it well from the third to the fifth inning.

As manager Kim Kyung-moon wished, Wang Yan-cheng, who filled the fifth inning and took the mound again in the sixth inning, grabbed one out and shook and handed the ball to Kim Do-bin. The sacrifice fly increased the number of runs to three, but he handled the subsequent hitters well to win the game.

He sprayed the ball mainly on two types of fastballs and sliders with a maximum speed of 148 kilometers per hour, but he properly overpowered Kiwoom hitters with sliders showing off sharp control and sweeper-class trajectories. He overwhelmed Kiwoom hitters in the defense fight, with three of the five strikeouts.

After the game, head coach Kim Kyung-moon praised Wang Yancheng, saying, "He must have been pressured because it was his first starting stage in the league, but he did his part and came down."

After the interview with the Su-hoon player after the game, Wang Yan-cheng found his family visiting the dugout and his tear glands exploded. Even my grandmother, sister, and girlfriend couldn't control their emotions because they had come a long way to see their first win.

When asked about the meaning of tears, Wang Yancheng said, "My family came and I waited a lot for this moment. He said, "I've been in my seventh year as a professional, and it's my first victory in the first team," adding, "I've been crying since I saw my family earlier."

Wang Yancheng, who promised to throw aggressively even before the game, ran the game as planned, although he worked properly with catcher Choi Jae-hoon for the first time. Nevertheless, he said he had 6.5 to 7 points on the pitch on the day, adding, "When I went up to the sixth inning, I think I need to fix the part where I threw a hit ball to the first batter and didn't fill the sixth inning. I will be responsible for more innings in the future," he said.

Wang Yancheng said, "I have a lot of tears originally," but expressed his strong ambition, saying, "The next time I cry will be the Korean Series."

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