The professional baseball LG Twins have recorded a sellout for their 24th home game of the season.
LG is playing the KIA Tigers in the sixth match of the season at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 27th.
The LG organization announced that it sold out with 23,750 attendees for the game. According to the club, the sellout was reached at 6:50 p.m., 20 minutes after the game started. Following sellouts in the last three home games against Doosan on the 21st and 22nd, this is the third consecutive sellout.
As a result, LG has successfully sold out in its 40th home game of the season, recording a cumulative audience of 861,862. The average attendance is 21,546.
The popularity of the visiting team, KIA, is tremendous. KIA is currently on a nine-game road trip in the metropolitan area. Following sellouts against SSG in Incheon on the 21st and 22nd (23,000 attendees) and against Kiwoom from the 24th to 26th (16,000 attendees), it has recorded sellouts in six consecutive away games, including today’s game against LG in Jamsil.
LG has Son Ju-yeong starting, while KIA has Yang Hyun-jong taking the mound.
Son Ju-yeong has achieved a record of 6 wins and 6 losses with an earned run average of 4.54 over 14 games this season. He struggled in one game against KIA, with 5 earned runs over 3⅔ innings. His all-time record against KIA is 2 losses and an earned run average of 6.91 over 8 games.
Yang Hyun-jong is currently recording 5 wins and 4 losses with an earned run average of 5.10 over 15 games this season. He has pitched against LG in 2 games, recording 1 loss with an earned run average of 8.10.
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