'Hit, hit, hit, and hit again.' Hanwha's Noh Si-hwan, 'first in his career' 4-game consecutive home run barrage... 'Revived home run champion season' 14th home run [Incheon]

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Noh Si-hwan (26, Hanwha Eagles) has fully awakened. He has hit four consecutive home runs over four games, waking up the Hanwha lineup that had been in a downward trend.

On the 26th, Noh Si-hwan, starting at third base and batting fifth in the Hanwha Eagles vs. 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO League home game at Incheon SSG Landers Field, hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 6th inning while his team was leading 2-1.

With two outs and a runner on second base in the bottom of the 6th inning, while Hanwha was leading 2-1, Noh Si-hwan did not miss Thomas Hatch's 149 km/h fastball, which was located in the middle of the plate after a full-count battle. The ball he hit hard flew deep into the center of SSG Landers Field, becoming a two-run home run with a distance of 125 meters.

This is Noh Si-hwan's career-first four-game consecutive home run streak, following his home runs in all three games of the three-game home series against the Doosan Bears that began on the 23rd. He had hit three consecutive home runs four times before, but this is the first time he has hit four consecutive home runs.

With this, he has now hit his 14th home run of the season, placing him within the top 10 in this category. At Hanwha, he is trailing behind Kang Baek-ho (18 home runs) and Peraza (16 home runs).

Noh Si-hwan, who won the batting double crown in 2023 with 31 home runs and 101 RBIs, struggled in 2024 with 24 home runs but rebounded last year with 32 home runs and 101 RBIs.

Ahead of this season, he signed a multi-year contract as a non-FA player, receiving the highest deal in KBO history worth 11 years and 30.7 billion won, but he is having a season that is not 100% satisfying. Until April, he struggled with a batting average in the 100s, and while it seemed he had fully rebounded in May with a .317 batting average, 7 home runs, and 25 RBIs, he showed a downward trend again in June.

However, he hit three consecutive home runs in the three-game home series against the Doosan Bears, going 5-for-13 with 3 walks, 4 RBIs, and 4 runs scored. This performance is even more welcome as Yonatan Peraza, Moon Hyun-bin, Kang Baek-ho, and Heo In-seo, who were hitting well, have recently been struggling.

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