The professional baseball team Kiwoom Heroes is continuously breaking the record for the most consecutive sellouts in the club's history.
Kiwoom reported on the 10th that in the match against Hanwha Eagles held at Seoul's Gocheok Sky Dome during the '2025 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League,' "All 16,000 seats were sold out at 1:43 p.m. today. This is the sixth sellout of the season and the sixth consecutive sellout in the last six games."
Kiwoom, which recorded its first sellout of the season in the game against Lotte on the 1st, also achieved complete sellouts in the three-game Children's Day series held from the 5th to the 7th against KIA. Additionally, they recorded a sellout in the match against Hanwha on the 9th, making it the first time in the club's history to achieve five consecutive sellouts. The previous record was four consecutive sellouts recorded in 2013 (from June 6 against Samsung to June 9 against KIA) when they played at Mokdong Stadium (12,500 seats).
With the sellout of the game on this day, Kiwoom achieved six consecutive sellouts, once again breaking the record for the most consecutive sellouts. The game on the 11th is also expected to sell out, potentially increasing the record to seven games. Kiwoom has recorded a cumulative attendance of 254,687 this season, with an average attendance of 11,073.
The KBO League's other teams did not play due to rain that fell across the country on the 9th, except for the game between Kiwoom and Hanwha held at Gocheok Dome on this day, which was supposed to be a doubleheader. However, rain continued to fall in the metropolitan area until the morning, leading to the cancellation of the first game of the doubleheader at three stadiums (Jamsil, Incheon, Suwon). As a result, the only games being played were between Kiwoom and Hanwha, and between Samsung and LG, who were holding a doubleheader. With many games canceled, fans' attention turned more focused on the game at Gocheok Dome.
On this day, Kiwoom started Kim Sun-ki as the starting pitcher. He has recorded three losses and an earned run average of 6.65 over 13 games (23 innings) this season. In his last appearance, he pitched 3⅔ innings against KT, allowing three hits, two walks, and one earned run while striking out two. Against Hanwha, he has an earned run average of 3.86 over two games (2⅓ innings), which is not bad.
After achieving a comeback win with a score of 7-5 in the previous game, Hanwha, which recorded a 10-game winning streak for the first time in 26 years, started Cody Ponce as the starting pitcher on this day. Ponce has recorded six wins and an earned run average of 1.70 over eight games (53 innings) this season. Based on his outstanding performance, he was awarded the League MVP for April. In his last appearance, he pitched seven innings against KIA, allowing two hits, two walks, and one unearned run while striking out six. This is his first start of the season against Kiwoom.
The game progressed to a 0-0 tie until the first inning.
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