Doosan and Lotte were scheduled to have a showdown in Game 12 of the season between 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL Bank KBO League teams at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 13th.
On the day, Lotte was scheduled to start in the order of Hwang Seong-bin (center fielder), Ko Seung-min (second baseman), Jeon Joon-woo (designated hitter), Victor Reyes (left fielder), Na Seung-yeop (first baseman), Yoon Dong-hee (right fielder), Noh Jin-hyuk (third baseman), Park Seung-wook (striker), and Son Seong-bin (catcher), and Kim Jin-wook (female catcher). What stood out in the lineup was the exclusion of Son Ho-young as the starting pitcher. Son Ho-young was scheduled to play as the substitute as he underwent treatment for a hamstring injection on the previous day (12th).
Doosan, which had a winning series against SSG Landers over the weekend, picked up cards that included Jeong Su-bin (center fielder), Kang Seung-ho (second baseman), Jarrod Young (right fielder), Yang Eui-ji (catcher), Yang Seok-hwan (first baseman), Kim Jae-hwan (designated hitter), Heo Kyung-min (third baseman), Jeon Min-jae (striker), Lee Yoo-chan (left fielder), and Jordan Balazovic as starting pitcher. However, it rained heavily ahead of the game.
It didn't take long for Jamsil Stadium to turn into a sea of water. Jamsil Stadium was hit by a heat wave of 36 degrees as of 3 p.m. that day. However, the weather began to get cloudy little by little, and raindrops began to fall little by little from 5:20 p.m. And after about five minutes, water bombs poured out.
Jamsil Baseball Stadium received a huge amount of rain, and Lotte players who were training in the dugout, and fans who came to the stadium to watch the game quickly began to avoid the rain. Then, they hurriedly set up tarps near the mound and home plate, but they were not enough to handle the sudden explosion of water. Finally, in just three to four minutes, Jamsil's infield was turned into a sea of water.
It was not that there was no rain forecast at all. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), light rain was forecast at Jamsil Stadium from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. However, the amount of rain poured in for only a few minutes was different from that predicted by the KMA. As a result, the KBO has decided to cancel the Doosan-Lotte match in Jamsil on the day.