It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.

Sep 30, 2025

It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.
The KIA-Samsung match at Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th. In the bottom of the first inning, Diaz hit a three-run shot with one out and runners on the first and third bases, achieving 50 home runs. Diaz is flapping the flag. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.30/



It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.
The KIA-Samsung match at Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th. In the bottom of the first inning, Diaz hit a three-run shot with one out and runners on the first and third bases, achieving 50 home runs. Diaz is flapping the flag. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.30/
It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.
The KIA-Samsung match at Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th. In the bottom of the first inning, Diaz hit a three-run shot with one out and runners on the first and third bases, achieving 50 home runs. Diaz is welcomed by Koo Ja-wook. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.30/
Samsung Lions' Lewin Diaz finally hit his 50th home run. The competition for MVP of the season has been further fueled.

Diaz fired a first three-run shot over the fence behind center field in the bottom of the first inning against the KIA Tigers at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th.

This is Samsung's last home game this season and the day legend Oh Seung-hwan's retirement ceremony is scheduled. The Samsung team created photo spots commemorating Oh Seung-hwan throughout Lions Park and even prepared Oh Seung-hwan's grand retirement ceremony.




Another slope added to this. With the home run, Diaz engraved his name on the first 50 home runs and 150 RBIs in professional baseball history, the first 50 home runs as a foreigner, and the first 50 home run hitter in 10 years since Park Byung-ho (then Nexen Heroes) in 2015.

As a result, Diaz has gained an advantage in the MVP competition of the season against Cody Ponce (Hanwha Eagles).

In the meantime, a lot of attention has been paid to Ponce, who has written a new history of 17 consecutive wins in the opening period and led Hanwha's emergency. It was also highly regarded for establishing a position as a four-time pitcher, with multiple wins, an ERA, and a winning percentage of the triple crown of strikeouts.




It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.
The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Kiwoom Heroes at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 13th. Hanwha Ponce is smiling. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.13/
However, after SSG Landers Drew Anderson beat Ponce in the strikeout category the previous day, Diaz surpassed the most RBIs in a season (formerly 2015 Park Byung-ho 146) and surpassed the unprecedented 150 RBIs, and the atmosphere could change as he repeatedly accumulated records in home runs on the same day.

Although Samsung is the runner-up team in the Korean Series last year, Diaz has nothing to lose behind Ponce in terms of Diaz's performance last year based on the pre-season power evaluation. It is also Diaz's fiery blow that raised Samsung, which fell to eighth place in the league at the end of the first half.

The three titles, including home run, RBI, and slugging percentage, are virtually definitive, and he did not miss the contact, which ranks third on the most hits due to the sophistication of his batting average of 300. In OPS (On-base plus slugging), it has now risen to No. 1 beyond Ahn Hyun-min. Both scoring and on-base percentage are in the top ranks.




Above all, Diaz is worth the scarcity in that he is in first place, 14 ahead of Davison, second in homers, and 45 ahead of Moon Bo-kyung (108), second in RBIs. In other words, he is much more competitive in the position than Ponce, who is competing with teammates Weiss in multiple wins and Anderson in strikeouts.

It finally popped! Legend's retirement day, the first 50 home runs X 150 RBIs kiss...Diaz, who wrote a new history, is also a green light for MVP competition.
The KIA-Samsung match at Lions Park in Daegu on the 30th. In the bottom of the first inning, Diaz hit a three-run shot with one out and runners on the first and third bases, achieving 50 home runs. Diaz is welcomed by his colleagues. Daegu = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.30/
The MVP of the season will be selected by a vote of professional baseball reporters immediately after the end of the regular season. Last year, Kim Do-young, who led KIA to the top of the regular season with 38 home runs and 40 steals, won MVP by sweeping 95 out of 101 valid votes.

Earlier, coach Park Jin-man said, `Even if Diaz is not a Samsung player, I vote for Diaz. Starting pitchers come out once every five to six days, and batters go out every day," he said, actively supporting the team.



Daegu= Reporter Kim Young-rok lunarfly@sportschosun.com



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.