What records were made in the opening game of professional baseball history
What records were made in the opening game of professional baseball history
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The 2025 KBO League will start the regular season on Tuesday. This year's exhibition game attracted 321,763 people, which is the highest average attendance in the history of exhibition games with 7,661 people on average, raising expectations for the regular season. The all-time opening game, which drew keen attention from fans, produced a flurry of interesting records. Before the opening of the regular season, we looked at the major records of all-time opening games and the true records of all-time opening games.
◆Will the stadium before the opening game be sold out?
All five opening games of the 2024 season have been sold out, with 103,841 people entering. If all five opening games of the 2025 season are sold out, 109,950 people are expected to attend the opening game, and more than 100,000 people will be able to welcome the opening game again along with the selling out of the opening game for the third consecutive year.먹튀검증
◆ All clubs are expected to select foreign pitchers...It's been 8 years since 2017
For the opening game of the 2025 season, all 10 clubs have announced that foreign pitchers will be their starters. It is the first time in eight years that foreign pitchers have taken the mound in all the opening games since the 2017 season. Among them, LG Chirinos, Doosan Cole Irvin, Hanwha Ponce, NC Logan and Kiwoom Rosenberg will make their KBO league debuts. Samsung Furado and KT Heysus are expected to be starters after transferring to new teams. After a foreign pitcher's transfer, there have been eight starts in history. This is the first time in five years that Alcantara has taken the mound after transferring from KT to Doosan in the 2020 season.
◆The most strikeouts in the opening game are Kiwoom Ahn Woo-jin with 12... This season, who
Kiwoom An Woo-jin holds the record for the most strikeouts in any opening game in history. He made history by striking out 12 against Hanwha in the opening game of the 2023 season. A total of five players have recorded double-digit strikeouts in all-time opening games, including An Woo-jin, and Joo Hyung-kwang (former Lotte), Jung Min-cheol (former Hanwha - two times), Hernandez and Kelly (former SK) have recorded 10 strikeouts in the opening game. Hayesus (178), Barnes (171), and Furado (169), who ranked second, third, and fourth respectively in the 2024 season, are raising expectations for another strikeout record, signaling their start.
◆Samsung Kang Min-ho and LG Kim Hyun-soo are aiming for the most hits in their opening games
The record of the most hits in the opening game is three, Kim Kwang-rim (former double bubble), Kim Tae-kyun (former Hanwha), and Jung Geun-woo (former LG), who recorded 20. Among the active players, Samsung Kang Min-ho and LG Kim Hyun-soo are tied for 8th with 18, so the player who adds two hits will be honored with the most ties and the most hits in the opening game when recording three.
◆ Will the game end for the third consecutive year
All 10 clubs have had 15 walk-off games in their opening games to gain the upper hand. In particular, walk-off games have been played in the opening games for the 2023 and 2024 seasons, giving thrill to fans who were thirsty for baseball. In the 2023 season, Lee Hyung-jong (Kium) and Rojas (former Doosan Bears) completed the walk-off game with hits and home runs, respectively, and in the 2024 season, NC Davidson, the top home run player in the regular season, made a walk-off hit in the opening game, marking a pleasant start to the season.
◆ The first home run before the opening game is... LG Kim Hyun-soo has the most home runs in the opening game
The first homer in the opening game of the 2024 season was recorded by Kiwoom Choi Joo-hwan six minutes after the game started against KIA in Gwangju. He hit a two-run homer off pitcher Crow at his first at bat in the top of the first inning, and became the hero of the first homerun in this season. Attention is focusing on who will be the first to hit the homerun in this season.
Among the active players, the player who hit the most home runs in the opening game was LG Kim Hyun-soo, who drew four arches. If Kim adds another home run, he can rank second only to the record of seven that he holds in the Korean dialogue (former double bubble). Meanwhile, a rookie has not hit an opening home run since KT Kang Baek-ho in the 2018 season.