KBO | Jamsil, 9 October 1984 — Four Wins, and Somebody Else's MVP

No pitcher has won four games in a Korean Series before or since. The man who did it in 1984 was not named Series MVP. Choi Dong-won (최동원) opened the series on 30 September in Daegu and shut Samsung out, 4–0. He went the distance again at Gudeok in Busan for a 3–2 win in Game 3. He went the distance a third time in Game 5 here at Jamsil and lost 3–2. He came out of the bullpen for five innings in Game 6 and won that. Two days later he started Game 7. Samsung led 4–1 through six. Lotte got one back in the seventh, and in the eighth, trailing 4–3 with runners on first and third, Yu Du-yeol (유두열) hit a three-run home run off Kim Il-yung (김일융), who had already beaten Lotte three times in the series. Final: Lotte 6, Samsung 4, and Busan had its first championship. Choi finished 4–1 with four complete games. Yu Du-yeol was voted Series MVP for the swing that decided it. Choi took the regular-season award instead, off a 27–13 year with 223 strikeouts; Korean accounts explain the split as a convention of the era against handing one man both. A note for anyone reading the Korean record. Games 5, 6 and 7 are listed at 서울종합운동장 야구장, which is Jamsil Baseball Stadium. Machine translation renders that as "Seoul Olympic Stadium," a different building on the same complex, and the error is now widespread in English. The Game 7 mound was here, on this pin, and after December 2026 it will not be anywhere. Photo: Cyberdoomslayer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0