The Kiwoom Heroes sold out the first game of their three-game weekend series.
Kiwoom announced that in the 2026 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League game against the Samsung Lions at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 24th, all 16,000 seats were sold out as of 7:42 p.m. today. It is the fifth sellout of the season.
Kiwoom, which set a new single-season club attendance record last season with 874,138 fans, recorded its first sellout of the season on the 4th against LG. Considering that last season the first sellout came in the 18th game (May 1 against Lotte), the first sellout this season came remarkably quickly.
Kiwoom achieved three consecutive sellouts in the three-game weekend series against Lotte from the 10th to the 12th. The weekend series against Samsung also started with a sellout in the first game, raising expectations for strong box-office performance.
Kiwoom ace An Woo-jin made his third start of the season in front of a full house. An, who has a KBO League career line of 158 games (623 innings) with a 43-36 record, 14 holds, 2 saves and a 3.21 ERA, underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2023 (elbow ligament reconstruction) and shoulder surgery in August 2025, and returned from injury this season.
An, who has been gradually increasing his innings, pitched one scoreless inning with one hit and one walk in the May 12 game against Lotte, and two innings with two hits, one walk and one earned run in the May 18 game against KT. In this outing he relied on a heater topping out at 160 km/h and delivered a strong performance of three innings, two hits, one walk, six strikeouts and one earned run before leaving the mound.
Kiwoom led 4-1 through the top of the fourth inning.
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