«Sold out → sold out → sold out → already 38 games» The box office success of the KBO postseason is incredible! The LG-Doosan Jamsil rivalry match filled all 23,650 seats [WC1 on-site]

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The 2026 postseason also started with a sold-out crowd. With the Jamsil rivalry match between the LG Twins and the Doosan Bears played in front of a full house, the KBO postseason record for consecutive sold-out games also increased to 38 matches.

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that "all 23,650 seats were sold out for the first game of the 2026 Shinhan SOL KBO Postseason (PS) Wild Card deciding series (WC) between LG and Doosan held on the 14th at Seoul Jamsil Baseball Stadium."

With this, this year's postseason started with a cumulative attendance of 23,650, recording a sold-out crowd from the very first game. The consecutive postseason sold-out record, which had continued since the first game of the 2023 Korea Series, reached a total of 38 games. The consecutive sold-out streak for Wild Card deciding games, which began with the first WC game in 2024, also increased to 5 matches.

The box office success of Liga KBO's postseason had already set a new record last year. The previous record for the most consecutive sold-out postseason games was 26 matches, spanning from the third game of the 2009 Playoffs to the second game of the 2011 Semi-Playoffs.

However, on October 14 of last year, a new record of 27 consecutive sold-out games was set in the fourth game of the Semi-Playoffs between the Samsung Lions and the SSG Landers. After that, every game was played to a full house, continuously breaking the record, and that heat continued up to this year's first game.

There were plenty of elements to attract fan interest from this year's first stage. LG and Doosan, who share Seoul Jamsil Baseball Stadium as their home ground, faced off for a spot in the Semi-Playoffs. The 4th-place LG in the regular season advances to the next round with just one win or one draw, while the 5th-place Doosan must achieve two consecutive wins.

In particular, this year is the final season for Jamsil Baseball Stadium, which opened in 1982. Since it is the last postseason for both teams at the existing Jamsil stadium, it holds special meaning for fans as well. The team eliminated in this series will no longer be able to play postseason baseball in Jamsil.

Attention was also focused on a match where the pride of both teams was at stake. Doosan fielded Kwak Bin, who ranks first in ERA (average runs allowed) this season, while LG named Carlos Karasco as their starter.

Fan cheers erupted from the start of the game. LG's Austin Dean hit a lead-off two-run homer to celebrate his 33rd birthday in the bottom of the first inning. The Jamsil crowd, filled with LG fans, went wild over the big home run, which had a ball speed of 169.2 km/h and a distance of 119 m.

The 2026 postseason opened with hot fan enthusiasm from the very first game. Interest is growing to see how far Liga KBO's new record for consecutive postseason sold-out games will extend this year.

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