Lotte Gamboa became MVP in June! → KIA beat Jeon Sang-hyun, who received 210,000 fan votes

Jul 08, 2025

Lotte Gamboa became MVP in June! → KIA beat Jeon Sang-hyun, who received 210,000 fan votes
The game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 2nd. Lotte's Gamboa is pitching hard. Busan = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.02/



Lotte Gamboa became MVP in June! → KIA beat Jeon Sang-hyun, who received 210,000 fan votes
The game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 3rd. Lotte Gamboa is running. Busan = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.03/
Lotte Giants foreign pitcher Gamboa was named MVP in June. Gamboa ranks first in June's ERA, multiple wins, and second in innings.

On the 8th 'Gamboa was selected as the monthly MVP of the 2025 KBO League in June. As a Lotte player, he is the first monthly MVP in more than two years since Na Kyun-an in April of the 2023 season, and as a foreign pitcher who joined in the middle of the season, he has won the second prize since KT Cuevas in August of the 2023 season (based on the 2010 season when the KBO League monthly MVP award was regularized).

Gamboa swept 30 votes (85.7%) out of a total of 35 votes cast by reporters. The remaining five chapters went to Lotte foreign hitter Reyes (4 votes) and KIA relief pitcher Jeon Sang-hyun (1 vote).




Jeon Sang-hyun was overwhelmed in fan voting. Out of 429,664 votes, Jeon received 211,595 votes. Gamboa took 105,152 votes, about half of the votes.

As a result of converting points, Gamboa was far ahead. Gamboa had a total score of 55.09 and Jeon Sang-hyun had 26.05.

Gamboa, who joined Lotte in May, quickly adapted to the KBO league by becoming a winning pitcher with seven scoreless innings against Sajik Kiwoom, his first appearance in June. Since then, he has won all four games he started, winning five games and losing in June, ranking first in the winning category.




Lotte Gamboa became MVP in June! → KIA beat Jeon Sang-hyun, who received 210,000 fan votes
The game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 2nd. Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung and Gamboa, who won, are happy. Busan = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.02/
He also topped the monthly ERA category with a 1.72 ERA with only six earned runs while pitching 31 ⅓ innings. He also ranked second in the league in pitching innings and had four quality starts (more than six innings and less than three earned runs) in five appearances

In his first appearance in July, Gamboa became a winning pitcher in six ⅔ innings, winning six consecutive starts, helping the team compete fiercely for the ranking.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.