Box-office guarantee check LG solo + Hanwha and Lotte double-chill gusts, attracting the most spectators ever
Box-office guarantee check LG solo + Hanwha and Lotte double-chill gusts, attracting the most spectators ever
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The number of spectators who entered the pro baseball league reached 10.887,705 last year, surpassing the 10 million mark for the first time ever. It has emerged as one of the most popular sports in Korea as it exceeded 10 million spectators for a single season for the first time in the history of pro sports in Korea.
The factors that increased popularity analyzed in the field were the influx of a large number of young female fans and various marketing effects.
The performance of popular teams was another factor not to be ignored. Last season, Kia, LG, and Samsung were in the top ranks. LG had 1,397,499 people, which was the most popular among the 10 teams. Samsung followed LG with 1,347,022 people, and boasted the largest influx of spectators among non-metropolitan areas.
This season, there are factors that can further increase the popularity of the KBO League.
LG is leading the box office with the absolute first round this year. Of the 13 games held at home, all 12 were sold out.
And another 'popular team' has begun to make it to the top five. Lotte and Hanwha ranked in the top five with their strides in April.
The two teams have a thick fan base and have a long-lasting affection for fall baseball. Lotte's recent memories of fall baseball have remained in 2017. For Hanwha, 2018 remains the last postseason season.
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Lotte has traditionally been a popular team. The cumulative total of spectators at its home exceeded 30 million last season. It was the second record in the history of Korean pro sports after LG, and the first by a team based in a non-capital region.
Hanwha sold out in 47 out of 66 home games last year. It was even regrettable that the Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon, which it used as its home stadium until the last season, only had 12,000 seats in total.토토사이트
The two teams, which had a strong image of weak teams, are rebounding this season. Veteran leaders are leading the team.
Hanwha's "old man" Kim Kyung-moon has been in charge of the team since May last year and ranked eighth after fighting for the last five games at the end of the season. Fall baseball was desperately needed this year as it is facing a new season at the new stadium. Moon Dong-ju, Kim Seo-hyun, foreign pitcher Cody Ponce and rookie Jung Woo-ju have set the axis of their power as fastball pitchers who throw 150 kilometers.
His batting slump was serious in the early days of the season. He had a team batting average of 0.186 up until last Thursday, when he was under .20,000. However, his team's batting performance gradually revived, and his ranking started to rise due to the combination of pitching and hitting. As of the 19th, the winning rate in April is second only to LG (11 wins, 4 losses, 0.733).
Lotte is in the second year since its manager Kim Tae-hyung took the helm this year. Manager Kim Tae-hyung, who shouted "The goal is fall baseball" even before the start of the spring camp, has been building his team's upward trajectory since the beginning of this year.
Last year, Lotte failed to elevate its ranking until the end of May as it fell to the bottom from the beginning of the season, but this year it made it to the top five. Lotte, which is mostly young players, also ranked ninth with two wins, one draw and five losses in March due to lackluster hitting performance in the early days of the season, but now it has posted a winning rate of 0.625 (10 wins and six losses) in 16 games in April as of Wednesday. Lotte ranked first in the league with its team batting average of 0.313 in April. The team is competing with KT and Samsung, the teams that advanced to the league last fall.
The success of the two teams is expected to have a significant impact on the box office success this year. Professional baseball has already surpassed 1 million spectators in 60 games, the lowest number ever played. At the current pace, it is the first time that the number of spectators can surpass 12 million.
KIA, the unified championship team last year, is also coming up with injured players returning one by one. In many ways, there have been many factors that lead fans to the ballpark.