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| KBO League Kiwoom and Doosan held at Gocheok Dome on the 1st. Kiwoom won 1-0 over Doosan. Kiwoom players congratulate Alcantara, who became the winning pitcher after the game. Gocheok =Reporter Song Jeong-heon@sportschosun.com/2025.06.01/ |
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Who said we're going to lose 100 games.
The era of `Chaos' from Kiwoom Heroes is about to arrive. If you wanted to meet Kiwoom so much until now, you may have to avoid it because you are afraid of Kiwoom's foot 'Chili powder'.
Kiwoom won again. That's against the leading LG Twins, too. Kiwoom won 4-1 against LG at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 7th. The newly joined starter Alcantara was in charge of eight perfect innings, and the batters also scored steadily whenever necessary, although not many points.
LG is the favorite and the No. 1 team. It won two games in a row against the LG to confirm the winning series. On top of that, LG's starter on the day was Lim Chan-kyu. Before the game, he had 8 wins and 1 loss, which is a huge performance. It was an individual five-game winning streak. If he had won, he could have tied with Ponce (Hanwha) for the most wins. Kiwoom became the team that gave Lim Chan-kyu his second loss of the season. Until then, it was only the KIA Tigers.
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| KBO League Kiwoom and Doosan held at Gocheok Dome on the 1st. Kiwoom won 1-0 over Doosan. Kiwoom players are sharing the joy of winning after the game. Gocheok =Reporter Song Jeong-heon@sportschosun.com/2025.06.01/ |
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It is a four-game winning streak. It is also the third consecutive winning series. In addition, it is 6 wins and 1 loss if limited to the last seven games. No team has done better than Kiwoom in the same period.
Of course, it is still at the bottom. It has only reached the 20-win mark. It is a whopping 18.5 games difference from the first LG and 14.5 games difference from the fifth-place Samsung Lions, the last line to advance to the postseason. It is a case of expressing that there is a long way to go, and the gap has widened too much from the beginning.
However, it is Kiwoom's unexpected drama that has many meanings. First of all, it is a sign of getting out of the crisis that many people were worried about. No team has ever lost 100 games in the KBO League. In fact, Kiwoom was on pace to easily lose 100 games before rebounding like this. If you are at the bottom again this year, you are at the bottom for the third consecutive year. The title is also disgraceful, and if it became the first 100 losing teams, the club's grounds for existence would have disappeared.
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| KBO League Kiwoom and Doosan held at Gocheok Dome on the 1st. Kiwoom won 1-0 over Doosan. Kiwoom Won Jong-hyun, who made a save at the end of the game. Gocheok =Reporter Song Jeong-heon@sportschosun.com/2025.06.01/ |
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It could also shed some stigma that it is pouring cold water on the box office front of 'All-time'. Some even said that Kiwoom's balance in the league will collapse as it becomes a 「Victory Vending Machine」. Even the teams that were a little less excited wanted to meet Kiwoom, and Kiwoom revived them all. All the opposing teams failed even with two wins and one loss, and they had to sweep all three games to calculate that it was the main match. The more it did, the more the Kiwoom players were forced to shrink.
But now, you can hurt your nose if you look at Kiwoom as a pushover. Rather, meeting Kiwoom became burdensome with this momentum. I met No. 10 Kiwoom If you dedicate the Winning series and you get a sweep, it's the worst case scenario. Next week's bomb falls to the NC Dinos and Doosan Bears, who are busy to go. From Kiwoom's point of view, since they are eighth and ninth teams, 'Let's go full swing with this momentum' is a match that can give them confidence.
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| Kiwoom starter Alcantara, who will return to the KBO League in 333 days. |
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First of all, the club admitted the failure of two foreign batters, and Alcantara, a high-quality starter, joined. Alcantara has thrown only two games, but if the belief is instilled in the players that they can win if they get this player, they don't easily lose back-to-back games. Other starters, such as Ha Young-min, who used to be good, are also burdened. At this timing, even top rookie Chung Hyun-woo comes, so players' morale can soar.
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| Samsung-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 22nd. Cardinez, who was hit with two outs in the bottom of the first inning, is in pain. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.5.22/ |
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The fact that Cardinez, who was the same headache as Puig, was left for a long time due to an elbow injury could be a good thing for Kiwoom. Whenever there is a chance, they cut off all the timing, but as Cardinez, who could not take it out, disappeared, there was an unexpected effect of the rest of the Korean players coming together. On the 7th, Lim Ji-yeol, who was in charge of LG's No. 4, hit a timely hit in the second half of the game to seal the victory. This is the team atmosphere.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
