Jamsil Ground, dug up like a battlefield...Can Jamsil, which experienced heavy rain every day, be held in Elotrasico on Friday night?

Jul 18, 2025

Jamsil Ground, dug up like a battlefield...Can Jamsil, which experienced heavy rain every day, be held in Elotrasico on Friday night?
Jamsil Stadium undergoing ground maintenance. Reporter Kim Young-rok



Repeated heavy rains are slowing the start of the second half of professional baseball. Can the ambitious four-game series and the second round be held.

The first series and first game of the second half between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins will be held at Jamsil Stadium on the 18th.

However, all five professional baseball games, including the two teams' games scheduled the previous day, were postponed due to rain.




The match between the Incheon SSG Landers and the Doosan Bears has already been canceled due to ground conditions. The back-and-forth rain makes baseball fans feel restless.

Jamsil walked the tarpaulin that had been placed thoroughly from around 3 p.m. and began a full-fledged ground maintenance.

As long as it has rained repeatedly for several days in a row, the more time to dry and maintain the ground, the better. However, if the tarpaulin is walked once, it is not easy to realistically rearrange it when it rains again.




As expected, the ground where the tarpaulin was removed had pits everywhere like a battlefield. The stadium management team filled all the places in the infield dirt area with new soil. If there is confidence that the game will be held, the ground maintenance is expected to be completed quickly.

The problem is the weather. The highest temperature in Seoul is 29 degrees, which is relatively not hot. Instead, it is hot and humid with humidity exceeding 80%. The air is good thanks to the rain every day.

Jamsil Ground, dug up like a battlefield...Can Jamsil, which experienced heavy rain every day, be held in Elotrasico on Friday night?
The game between the LG Twins and the Lotte Giants, which will be held at Jamsil Stadium on the 17th, was postponed due to rain. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.17/
According to the forecast, rain is scheduled at around 8 p.m. after the start of the game. However, the previous day, after the forecast went back and forth, heavy rain poured as scheduled immediately after the game was canceled, and although the possibility of rain was high in the afternoon, it is not raining, leaving only dark clouds full of Jamsil sky.




Usually, spectators in Jamsil start at 5 p.m. The authority to cancel the rain before the game is given to the KBO game supervisor and the referee after the game begins.

For the team, it is better before the game to rain. After the starting pitcher fully warms up and takes the mound, he has to take a five-day break anyway. If the game is suspended and resumed due to rain in the middle of the game, pitchers will inevitably have difficulty managing their condition. If you don't want to come, it's easier not to come throughout the game.

As the infield ground is not available, both LG and Lotte conducted training focusing on warming up using the infield foul area and the outfield lawn area.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.