Eagles manager to use flamethrowing starter out of bullpen again

Hanwha Eagles manager Kim Kyung-moon said Sunday his flamethrowing starter Moon Dong-ju will be available out of the bullpen for the second straight game. Moon announced his arrival in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason in emphatic fashion Saturday afternoon, when he threw two overpowering innings and struck out four in a 9-8 win over the Samsung Lions in Game 1 of the second round. Moon touched 161.6 kilometers per hour with a four-seam fastball, the hardest pitch thrown by anyone in the KBO this year. Moon has been a full-time starter the past two years and was expected to be Game 4 starter of this series if it goes that far. But Kim now plans to use the 21-year-old as a swingman, potentially his biggest weapon in middle innings. "If Moon Dong-ju is feeling OK physically, he can come in relief during Game 2, depending on the situation," Kim said in his pregame media availability at Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark in the central city of Daejeon. "We have some time left until Game 4 (scheduled for Wednesday), and so we will see how Game 2 here plays out." Moon could potentiallyWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times