The Korea Professional Baseball Kiwoom Heroes achieved a franchise record of selling out 7 consecutive games for the first time in history.

Kiwoom announced that "As of 2:03 p.m. today, all 16,000 seats were sold out for the match against the Hanwha Eagles in the ‘2025 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League’ held at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 11th. This marks the 7th sell-out of the season and the latest in a streak of 7 consecutive sell-outs."

After achieving the first sell-out of the season against Lotte on the 1st, Kiwoom also recorded sell-outs during the 3-game series against KIA held from the 5th to the 7th for Children's Day. Furthermore, they achieved a sell-out against Hanwha on the 9th, marking the first time in franchise history that they achieved 5 consecutive sell-outs. The previous record was 4 consecutive sell-outs set in 2013 (from June 6 against Samsung to June 9 against KIA) when they used Mokdong Stadium (seating 12,500) as their home park.

Following the 6 consecutive sell-outs recorded against Hanwha on the 10th, Kiwoom achieved another sell-out in the game that day, extending their franchise record for the most consecutive sell-out games to 7. Kiwoom has recorded a cumulative attendance of 270,687 this season, with an average attendance of 11,278.

On this day, Gocheok Dome was visited by slugger Manny Ramirez, who has hit 555 home runs in Major League Baseball, along with Luis Alicea, who has played a total of 1,341 Major League games. Ramirez was the designated hitter, Alicea served as the first base coach, and the opening pitch was thrown by the idol Yuju from the girl group Girlfriend.

Kiwoom's starting pitcher was Kim Yoon-ha. Kim has made 8 appearances this season, pitching 36⅔ innings with a record of 0 wins and 7 losses, and an earned run average of 7.12. In his last appearance, he faced KIA, pitching 3 innings and allowing 6 hits, 4 walks, and 4 strikeouts while giving up 6 runs. Against Hanwha, he has pitched once, going 5 innings with 8 hits allowed, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts, and 5 runs (4 earned) in a loss.

Hanwha, aiming for the franchise's second-ever 12-game winning streak, has Ryan Weiss as the starting pitcher. Weiss has made 8 appearances this season, pitching 48⅓ innings with a record of 5 wins and 1 loss, and an earned run average of 3.91. In his last outing, he pitched against Samsung for 7 innings, allowing 3 hits (including 1 home run), 1 walk, and striking out 5 while allowing 1 run. This is Weiss's first appearance of the season against Kiwoom.

The game is tied 0-0 through the bottom of the 2nd inning.

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