The Gocheok Sky Dome, where the Korea Professional Baseball League's Lotte Giants faced the Kiwoom Heroes, recorded a sellout.
The Kiwoom organization noted on the 1st, "As of 7:17 p.m., all 16,000 seats have been sold out." This marks the first sellout at Gocheok Dome this season.
This season, Kiwoom played home games against SSG, NC, LG, KT, and Doosan in turn, but did not record a sellout on any occasion.
This is thanks to the away team Lotte fans occupying a substantial number of seats. Lotte is riding a recent wave with 5 wins and 1 loss. They are only 2 games behind the leading LG. They are closely behind the 2nd placed Samsung and the 3rd placed Hanwha by 0.5 games. Lotte won against Kiwoom 9-3 on the 29th and secured a 10-9 victory in the game on the 30th.
Although the 1st is a Thursday, it was Workers' Day, allowing many spectators to attend.
On this day, Lotte fielded the starting lineup of Hwang Seong-bin (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (second baseman), RAY (designated hitter), Na Seung-yeob (first baseman), Yoon Dong-hee (right fielder), Son Ho-young (third baseman), Jeon Jun-woo (left fielder), Lee Ho-jun (shortstop), and Jeong Bo-geun (catcher).
Kiwoom started Lee Yong-kyu (center fielder), Song Seong-mun (third baseman), Cardenas (first baseman), Choi Joo-hwan (designated hitter), Oh Seon-jin (shortstop), Won Seong-jun (left fielder), Kim Dong-heon (catcher), Song Ji-hu (second baseman), and Lee Hyung-jong (right fielder).
Lotte capitalized on a no-out, bases-loaded opportunity in the first inning to score 2 runs first. Through the third inning, Lotte is leading 2-0.
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