Keywords in the first half of the KBO League, 6 million + Ryu Hyun-jin + KIA lead + ABS

Keywords in the first half of the KBO League, 6 million + Ryu Hyun-jin + KIA lead + ABS

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Amid the all-time box office hit, the first half of the "2024 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League" schedule ended.

After the game on the 4th, the first half of the KBO League came to an end. The most noticeable phenomenon throughout the first half is also the "all-time box office hit."
"The KBO League recorded a total of 6,057,323 spectators on the 4th," the Korea Baseball Organization said on the 4th. "It set a record of exceeding 6 million spectators in 418 games since the opening."

It broke the record of 6 million spectators for the first time in 12 years, which was achieved in 419 games in 2012. The 4 million and 5 million spectatorship was the second fastest pace ever. The 6 million spectatorship is the fastest since the KBO League was launched in 1982. It is truly an all-time hit.

All 10 teams in the KBO League have maintained an average attendance of more than 10,000 spectators on average this season. The average attendance was 14,533 (as of Tuesday). The number of home games increased by more than 30 percent compared to the same number of games played last season. The total number of sold-out games was 46 during the last season. This year, 116 were sold in the first half alone.

Fierce competition to become the first runner, and the gap is close enough to enable even the lowest ranking team to secure the fifth place. With this atmosphere, the team is expected to break the record of the highest number of spectators and surpass the 10 million mark for the first time. The biggest number of spectators in a single season of the KBO League was 8.40 million,688, which was recorded in 2017.

Behind the all-time box office success is the strong performance of the "traditional popular team" KIA Tigers (1st) and LG Twins (2nd), which are ranked first and second in the average audience this season, and the popular Lotte Giants and Hanwha Eagles, which are at the bottom, are also in a position to pursue fifth place. At the end of the first half of last season, the lead LG and the bottom Samsung were close to 20 games apart, but this season is 13 games apart. 핑크알바

Ryu Hyun-jin (Hanwha Eagles), who joined the KBO League after leaving the MLB team that lived for 11 years, is also a keyword that cannot be left out. Hanwha, Ryu's team, sold out its home games 30 times this season. The number has increased explosively compared to sales of six games last season. Hanwha, which ranks first in sales among the 10 teams, is poised to surpass sales of 36 home games by the Samsung Lions in 1996.

Ryu Hyun-jin (5-5, 3.62 ERA) had some ups and downs in adapting to the automatic pitching system and the tendency of Korean hitters, which were introduced for the first time this year, but he has been exerting strong power since last month. His ERA in the last five games is around one point. His ball control has stabilized to the extent that he stabbed in the corner of the strike zone. At the match against the KT Wiz in Daejeon on Saturday, his last game in the first half of the season, he became a losing pitcher without receiving help from the batters, but showed off his presence by allowing seven hits, eight strikeouts, and two runs in seven innings. The prospect that Ryu's good pitching will continue in the second half of the year is gaining weight.

Confusion is also decreasing as players including Ryu Hyun-jin gradually adapt to ABS.

Not only players but also coaches openly complained about ABS, which was introduced by KBO to the first division stage this year. In response, KBO immediately presented objective data to prevent distrust of ABS from spreading. Among baseball fans, they said, "There are still areas to be supplemented, but it is much better than when we doubted the fairness of some center players' ridiculous ball decisions before the introduction of ABS."