E! Lotte is different...It was the first time that the Kiwoom home game sold out for the first time this year. 16,000 seats have been sold out

May 01, 2025

E! Lotte is different...It was the first time that the Kiwoom home game sold out for the first time this year. 16,000 seats have been sold out
Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 1st. Na Seung-yeop is happy after hitting a two-run timely hit with no outs in the top of the first inning. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.1/



Is the momentum of the Busan seagull really different this year. As much as the ranking runs without hesitation toward the No. 1 LG Twins, Lotte's box office success is beyond imagination.

The game between the Kiwoom Heroes and the Lotte Giants at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 1st sold out all 16,000 seats as of 7:17 p.m. It is the first sellout of the year for Kiwoom, the home team.

As much as Lotte's momentum, which has been on the rise of 7 wins and 3 losses in the last 10 games, the momentum of away fans has boiled hot. There were many fans dressed up in Lotte uniforms in the central table seat or the first-floor seat behind the catcher.




Lotte is the fifth away team to visit Gocheok this season. Prior to Lotte, LG Twins, KT Wiz, NC Dinos and Doosan Bears visited the site, but there was never a sell-out case.

E! Lotte is different...It was the first time that the Kiwoom home game sold out for the first time this year. 16,000 seats have been sold out
Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 1st. Singer Doha (DOHA) throws the first pitch before the game. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.1/
Was it the limit of the weekday series. In the case of the LG-Kium match, it was not sold out even in early April when LG was running with explosive momentum at the beginning of the season. In addition, Gocheok is a site where Kiwoom was not sold out even in 2021 when it advanced to the Korean Series.

However, on the day of Game 3 of the Weekend Series, the scene was literally crowded. Baseball fans filled every corner of the top stands on the second floor of Gocheok Dome as well as the cheering seats on the first and third bases. The aftermath of Lotte's two consecutive wins in the first and second games seems to have also affected the box office.




Kiwoom has been at the bottom of the ranking table for the past two years, suffering from injuries and sluggishness of its main players this year. However, in line with last year's 10 million audience, he has made impressive moves this year, selling air conditioning fees in midsummer and season seats for each away team.

This year, in its second year as head coach Kim Tae-hyung, Lotte ranks fourth in the league with an impressive blend of veterans and newcomers. In the pitching staff, Park Se-woong is aiming for the best year of his life by running first in multiple wins, and in the batting lineup, Na Seung-yeop has already filled seven home runs last year, and the overall rise is enormous.

E! Lotte is different...It was the first time that the Kiwoom home game sold out for the first time this year. 16,000 seats have been sold out
Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 1st. Jeon Jun-woo is smiling broadly at baseball officials in the stands. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.1/
It is painful for Jeon Min-jae, who was running first in the batting, to leave after being hit by a headshot dune on the 29th, but Lee Ho-joon, who played as the main shortstop in place of Jeon Min-jae the previous day, filled the gap well with three hits, including a triple.




Will this year be really different. Lotte is targeting its first fall baseball in eight years since 2017. On this day, Lotte is leading 3-0 with Na Seung-yeop's two-run timely hit in the first inning.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.