A stigma that will go down in history, 100 losses in a season have been avoided. You have to laugh. You have to cry

Sep 04, 2025

A stigma that will go down in history, 100 losses in a season have been avoided. You have to laugh. You have to cry
A game between the LG Twins and the Kiwoom Heroes at Jamsil Stadium on the 31st. Song Sung-moon, who was scored by Kiwoom's acting head coach Seol Jong-jin, is welcomed. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.31/



I avoided losing 100...

Kiwoom Heroes won the Samsung Lions match 4-3 at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 3rd. In the ninth inning, Kim Gun-hee's thrilling winning shot exploded and properly sprayed red pepper powder on Samsung, which has a busy way to go.

In fact, the bottom is definitive, but Kiwoom will not give up. The victory against Samsung on this day was another meaning hidden. It is said that he is on the verge of disgracing his first 100 losing teams of the season.




Kiwoom beat Samsung to 41 wins, 4 draws, and 84 losses in 129 games. With 15 games left until the end of the season, the remaining games are over with 99 losses.

No team has lost 100 games in a season in the KBO League, which was launched in 1982. There were few games in the early days, and no matter how low the lowest team was, there were not many teams that were in a situation of 'neobook' due to their remarkably low power.

The record for the most losses in a season is 97 losses between the Ssangbangwool Raiders in 1999 and the Lotte Giants in 2022. Ssangbangwool had 28 wins, 7 draws and 97 losses, and Lotte had 35 wins, 1 draw and 97 losses. In the case of the winning rate, 133 games were played in 2002, and 132 games were played in 1999, but the lowest record was 2204 with 7 ties.




A stigma that will go down in history, 100 losses in a season have been avoided. You have to laugh. You have to cry
A game between the Kiwoom Heroes and the Lotte Giants at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 22nd. Kiwoom Cardines is getting ready for the game. Gocheok = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.22/
Kiwoom continued to accumulate losses at the beginning of the season with the choice of two foreign hitters showing signs of 'disruption', and was at the center of its first-ever 100 losses and a possibility of a 20% winning rate. In fact, Kiwoom lost 10 consecutive games as of May 30, falling to 14 wins, 1 draw, and 44 losses. There was no reason to talk about the 100 losses and the lowest winning rate.

Still, they overcame the early crisis by uniting with Hong Won-ki as the center. The team began to come up after acknowledging the failure of two foreign hitters and recruiting foreign pitchers such as Alcantara and Wells to stabilize the mound. Song Sung-moon also performed insanely in the early stages of the first half. A surprise star named Lim Ji-yeol came out. He finished the first half of 91 games with 27 wins, 3 draws and 61 losses with a winning rate of 307 percent.

A stigma that will go down in history, 100 losses in a season have been avoided. You have to laugh. You have to cry
The match between SSG and Kiwoom held at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 2nd. Kiwoom Mercedes, who is being replaced with runners left in the sixth inning. Incheon=Song Jeong-heon, Reporter Song @sportschosun.com/2025.09.02/
Still, the club dismissed head coach Hong Won-ki and general manager Ko Hyung-wook after the end of the first half, holding them responsible for their performance. Acting coach Seol Jong-jin, who had been in charge of the second division for a long time, took the helm.




How has Kiwoom's performance changed after the arrival of acting coach Seol. As a result of playing 38 games until the match against Samsung on the 3rd, it recorded a winning rate of 378 percent with 14 wins, 1 draw and 23 losses. Although it does not meet the goal of winning more than 40% and up to 50% of the maximum, the winning rate has increased anyway and the crisis of losing 100 games, which was the biggest concern, has disappeared, so now that we can relax and focus on the rest of the games.

As mentioned above, if you used two foreign pitchers from the beginning, it will be regrettable what your performance would have been like this season if you didn't miss Hurado and Heysus, who were very active last year. It is an ambiguous situation where I don't know whether to laugh or cry because I avoided 100 losses. It is time to finish the rest of the season and make full-fledged preparations early to prepare for next season, including the appointment of the coaching staff.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.