Tiarat A day after Do-young Kim’s two home runs carried the KIA Tigers to a Game 1 win, the second game of their KBO semifinal series against the LG Twins needed exactly one inning to feel just as decisive. On October 18 at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field, KIA sent nine batters to the plate in the bottom … Read more
The KBO League’s newly minted home run king didn’t wait long to show the postseason what the regular season already knew. On October 17 at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field, Do-young Kim hit two home runs and drove in four of his team’s five runs as the KIA Tigers beat the LG Twins 5-1 in Game 1 … Read more
A year ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Milwaukee Brewers out of the National League Championship Series in four straight games on their way to a World Series title. On October 15, at Dodger Stadium, the exact same two teams delivered the exact opposite result. The Brewers rallied from an early four-run deficit to … Read more
The LG Twins needed only one of two possible outcomes to keep their 2026 season alive: a win or a tie in Game 1 of the KBO wild card round. The Doosan Bears, who finished one spot and a handful of games behind them in the standings, needed something much harder — two consecutive victories, … Read more
On the final day of the 2026 KBO League regular season, Lotte Giants outfielder Victor Reyes stepped into Jamsil Stadium in Seoul needing to hold off one last challenger for a title he had already claimed twice before. He answered with four hits in five at-bats, including a home run, and by the time the … Read more
KT Wiz had nothing left to play for by the time their regular season reached its final day, and they still played like they did. The club had already clinched the best record in the KBO League a week earlier, locking up a direct bye to the Korean Series with games to spare. Instead of … Read more
On the final afternoon of the 2026 KBO League regular season, two separate storylines that had been building for months collided into a single swing. KIA Tigers infielder Do-young Kim stepped into the batter’s box in the bottom of the eighth inning on October 12, with the score tied 2-2 against the LG Twins, his … Read more
Less than 24 hours after the Los Angeles Dodgers left South Korean infielder Hyeseong Kim off their National League Championship Series roster in favor of an extra left-handed reliever, the pitching staff that move was supposed to reinforce got torched anyway. The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Dodgers 7-4 in NLCS Game 2 at American Family … Read more
The Los Angeles Dodgers released their 26-man roster for the National League Championship Series on the morning of October 12 in Korea, and one name that had quietly haunted the club’s infield depth chart all October was missing from it. Hyeseong Kim, the South Korean infielder who signed a contract worth up to $22 million … Read more
For three days, the record for most hits in a single KBO League season changed hands like a hot potato. First it belonged to KT Wiz infielder Choi Won-jun. Then it was tied. Then, on October 10, it went back to the player who had set the bar in the first place: Lotte Giants outfielder … Read more