Lotte’s promotion in the Korean Baseball Organization this season is leading to a “box office surge. Today’s game between leaders LG and Lotte in Jamsil is expected to exceed 20,000 spectators, which is unusual for a Tuesday game.
Lee Sung-hoon is a reporter.
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Lotte’s ‘ticket power’, which sold out the Gocheok Dome for the first time in six years last weekend for two consecutive days, is heading to Jamsil from today. 메이저사이트
The matchup between leader LG and third-place Lotte is a ‘midweek three-game series’ with fewer spectators, but ticket sales are as hot as if it were a weekend.
Today’s first game has already sold nearly 18,000 tickets and is on track to break the 20,000 mark, something that has only happened four times since the start of the “10-baseball era” in 2015 and not since Doosan pulled off a miraculous “come-from-behind” win on the final day of the 2019 regular season on a Tuesday that wasn’t a national holiday.
For the three-game series, LG will start foreign ace Lee Min-ho, who is returning from injury after a two-month absence, followed by Kelly and Plutko, while Lotte will go with Han Hyun-hee, Park Se-woong, and Straily, who have all been on a roll since May.
Lotte returns to Sajik Stadium this weekend to face another popular team, KIA, and it will be interesting to see if they can continue their streak of back-to-back weekend home sellouts, which they recorded against SSG on the 20th and 21st.