First 50-50 in history... second 40-40, 200 hits possible?

A time of mixed fortunes in the standings.

The KIA Tigers won the regular season title and clinched four postseason spots. KT Wiz and SSG Landers are battling for the last ticket, while Lotte Giants, Hanwha Eagles, NC Dinos, and Kiwoom Heroes have been eliminated from the Fall Baseball League.

Teams that have secured their place in the standings are now preparing for the postseason. On the other hand, teams whose postseason hopes were dashed are likely to be less motivated than before.

The season isn't over yet, and the records are still there. There are players who desperately need a home run or a hit.

Kia's Kim Do-young (21) needs two home runs to become the second player in KBO history to hit 40 home runs and 40 doubles. NC's Eric Thames (47 homers, 40 doubles) in 2015 holds the first KBO record, but no Korean player has done it yet. After clinching the title, Kia manager Lee Bum-ho decided to bat Kim Do-young in the leadoff spot to give him more at-bats in his quest for the record. Kim hasn't hit a home run since May 25 against Lotte. Kia now has only three games left.

For Lotte, which was eliminated from the fall baseball playoffs on Thursday, foreign-born Victor Reyes, 30, will try to break the 201-hit mark set by Seo Gun-chang (then of Nexen) in 2014. Seo is the only other player in the KBO with more than 200 hits.

While Kim Do-young's home run arsenal has been silent, 파워볼실시간 Reyes has been on a multi-hit streak of his own. He has 198 hits on the season. The pace is not bad. In his last 10 games, he's batting 4-for-5 with a high sensitivity.

Matt Davidson (33) is on a home run streak for the NC, who made the bold choice to fire their manager after being eliminated from fall baseball.

He hit his 46th home run of the season on April 24 against Jamsil Doosan and is one home run away from matching the franchise record set by the Thames in 2015. If he adds two more, he will tie the record for most home runs by a foreign hitter held by Yamaiko Navarro (Samsung) in 2015. However, he failed to produce a home run against SSG on the 25th. NC still has five games left. If he draws four arches, he will become the first foreign player to reach the 50-homer plateau in a decade since Park Byung-ho in 2014.

He's also on track for a meaningful stolen base record. Doosan's Cho Su-hyung (31), who leads the league with 64 stolen bases, will surpass Lee Dae-hyung's (then LG) 66 stolen bases in 2010 if he steals three bases in the remaining NC games. The most stolen bases in the 21st century. The previous record for most stolen bases in a season was 84 by Lee Jong-beom (then Hae-tae) in 1994.

In addition, Cho Sung-yueng became the first player in history to reach 50 stolen bases with the same team when Jung Soo-bin reached 50 stolen bases on the 23rd.