A fierce battle for the lead, a rich milestone... "The biggest box office hit ever."
A fierce battle for the lead, a rich milestone... "The biggest box office hit ever."
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In the first half of this year, the KBO League in professional baseball was fun to watch with a rich milestone added to the "all-time" ranking fight. With the boom in baseball in the society as a whole, it is on the verge of achieving 6 million spectators in the first half of the year.
According to the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) on the 3rd, the cumulative number of spectators in 408 games played until the 2nd was 5,929,395. The average attendance of 10 clubs was 14,533, up 32% from the same number of home games played by each club last season.
Such popularity lies in a fierce battle for the lead. Since the season's opening, four teams have been ranked first. The Hanwha Eagles won seven consecutive games in the early days of this season, and the NC Dinos also topped the list on April 7, albeit for a day. The LG Twins had remained in the "world for four days" from May 7 to May 11.
The team that kept the No. 1 ranking for the longest period is the KIA Tigers. It maintained the No. 1 ranking for about two months from April 9. It also ranked No. 1 for most of the time in last month. It had 46 wins (winning percentage of 0.582) in 81 matches before the game on the day. 먹튀검증
The battle for second place is even fiercer. The ranking changes every day. LG ranks second, 2.5 games behind the leading Kia Tigers. The third-ranked Samsung Lions is 0.5 games behind LG, and the fourth-ranked Doosan Bears is one game behind Samsung. The teams ranking first to fourth in the recent 10 games have failed to reach the winning rate of 50 percent, and teams ranking at mid- to low-ranked teams are fiercely chasing.
The first half of this year is also a time to rewrite the league's history. Those in the '80s broke the record set by those in the '60s and '70s represented by Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop. The record holder of most homeruns, hits, and hits has completely changed. Choi Jeong-eun of the SSG Landers hit his 468th homerun on April 24, surpassing the previous record (467 homeruns) Lee set when he was an active player.
On March 12, Kia Tigers' Choi Hyung-woo hit 4,078 hits, surpassing Lee's record of most hits (4077 hits). NC`s Son Ah-seop made his 2,505th hit, pushing back commentator Park Yong-taek and carving his name into the category of most hits.
Ryu Hyun-jin of the Hanwha Eagles achieved his 100th career victory on April 30. He returned to the Korean stage for the first time in 12 years after joining the U.S., becoming the 33rd pitcher with 100 wins. Kim Kyung-moon, the Hanwha manager, returned to the mound in six years and secured 900 career wins. This is a record that only six pitchers including Kim have achieved.