Ahead of the Club’s Minimum of 20 Wins… Coach Lee Beom-ho: “Yang Hyun-jong’s 170 Wins are Important”
The KIA Tigers, who are leading the 2024 season of the KBO League, are on the verge of becoming the first team to achieve 20 wins.
If they win the visiting game against the professional baseball Kiwoom Heroes held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul on the 25th, they will set a new record for the fewest 20 wins in Tigers history.
However, KIA coach Beom-ho Lee, who met before the game, said, “Today, I will place more emphasis on Yang Hyeon-jong, the player representing our club, achieving 170 wins than on the team record.” 카지노사이트탑
KIA had 19 wins (7 losses) in 26 games before this day.
With 3 more wins than 2nd place NC Dinos (16 wins, 10 losses), they are likely to be first to win 20 games.
In addition, if the match against Kiwoom is held on the 25th, the team will surpass the record of ’20 wins (8 losses) in 28 games’ achieved in 2017 and set a new record for the club’s ‘minimum 20 wins in games’.
Even in 1993, during the Haitai era, the Tigers won 20 games in 28 games.
The KBO League record in this category is ’25 games’ achieved by the Hyundai Unicorns in 2000 and the SK Wyverns (now SSG Landers) in 2008 and 2010.
Coach Lee simply said, “It’s still early in the season, so I don’t care about the team’s record of 20 wins.”
However, of course Coach Lee hopes for victory on the 25th as well.
This day also had special meaning.
KIA’s starting pitcher for the Kiwoom match on the 25th is Yang Hyun-jong.
If Yang Hyun-jong, who has a total of 169 wins in the KBO League, wins today, he will become the second player in history to reach 170 wins, following Song Jin-woo (210 wins, 153 losses).
Coach Lee said, “Today, all of our players will play for Yang Hyun-jong’s 170th win.”
Baseball is a team sport, but individual records come together to complete victory.