The competition for professional baseball is continuing even in the middle of summer without getting tired. It has exceeded 8 million spectators for the first time in history, raising expectations for 10 million spectators for the first time in history.
The professional baseball league attracted 8,5006,506 spectators for the first time in 549 games until the 13th.
It is the fifth-ever regular season since the 2015 season, when the regular season became a 720-game system, and the minimum number of games ever was 8 million.
It shortened the previous record of 693 games in the 2016 season by more than 100 games. At that time, the final audience was 8,339,577.
This summer was hit by record-breaking heat waves. Despite the heat wave, however, baseball fans constantly visited the stadium.
The 2024 Paris Olympics, which were expected to distract the audience, could not hold back the professional baseball.
Despite various unfavorable factors, professional baseball is cruising toward a new record for the largest number of spectators, with all 10 clubs recording an increase in spectators.
The LG Twins, which is ranked first in the average audience (19,220 people) this season, saw their average audience increase 19% from last year (16,211 people).
The Kia Tigers, which have maintained their position at the top of the self-portrait list as popular teams across the nation, has seen the biggest increase in spectatorship year-on-year. While Kia has played 55 games this year, it attracted 948,704 spectators. Compared with 569,053 players recorded in the same number of games last year, the figure jumped by a whopping 67 percent.
Samsung Lions, which have escaped from the bottom and are competing in the top ranks this year, also increased 56% from 637,965 last year to 994,254 this year.
Doosan Bears is the only team that has accumulated more than 1 million spectators this season. With 17 sold-out games this season, 1,003,234 fans visited Jamsil Stadium through Sunday.
Hanwha is setting a new record for the largest number of spectators ever day, with as many as 40 full-capacity spectators during 58 games at home.
Kiwoom Heroes, which is classified as a club with a relatively small fan base, has already played in front of a full crowd 10 times this season. 토토사이트
At this pace, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the record number of spectators exceeds the previous record. The current record stands at 8.4 million,688, which was set in the 2017 season.
As the regular season still has 171 games left, it is worth expecting to go beyond the first 9 million spectators in history until the 10 million spectators era.
The fact that the ranking battle is being held from 1st to 10th this year, which is tighter than ever, can also be a boon to the success. The heat of the baseball stadium is expected to heat up as the lower teams are not much different from the upper ranks, so the competition for rankings that cannot be given up until the end.