The KT Wiz clinched the best regular-season record in South Korea's professional baseball league (the KBO) on Monday, winning a direct place in the Korean Series championship after beating the Lotte Giants 9-0 and watching runner-up Samsung lose. It is the franchise's second pennant, and the league's pennant winners have gone on to take the title roughly 85 percent of the time. On the same day, the KBO passed last year's single-season attendance record of about 12.3 million with six days left, as the Wiz's sellout crowd in Suwon, south of Seoul, made them the eighth club to top 1 million fans this season.