An eight-year MLB veteran with 67 career home runs just hit one of the more meaningful long balls of his life — and it happened not in a big-league ballpark, but at a minor-league stadium in Ulsan, South Korea. On August 15, first baseman and designated hitter Choi Ji-man went 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs and … Read more
Baek In-chun, Korean Baseball’s Only .400 Hitter, Dies at 83 Baek In-chun, the only player in the history of South Korea’s professional baseball league to finish a season batting over .400, has died. He was 83. Baek passed away on August 15, 2026, at Dankook University Hospital in Cheonan, South Korea, where he had been … Read more
Choi Hyoung-woo Becomes First Player in KBO History to Reach 2,700 Career Hits On August 18, 2026, Samsung Lions veteran slugger Choi Hyoung-woo did something no player in the history of South Korea’s top professional baseball league has ever done. Facing the SSG Landers at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu, Choi hit a home run … Read more
Standing 6’8″ on a mound is unusual anywhere in professional baseball. Standing 6’8″ on a KBO League mound, as the very first player ever signed under a brand-new roster rule, is the kind of debut that gets remembered. On August 14, 2026, the LG Twins signed Australian left-handed pitcher John Kennedy for a total of … Read more
For a few weeks this summer, the KBO — South Korea’s top professional baseball league — was one front-office decision away from landing a pitcher with a real chance to help a major league staff. Instead, that pitcher, 29-year-old right-hander Troy Watson, stayed exactly where he was: inside the Detroit Tigers’ system, on a path … Read more
Down 0-9 at home against a rival with a Korean Series pedigree, most professional baseball teams are already thinking about the next game. The Hanwha Eagles were not one of them. On August 21, 2026, at Hanwha Life Ballpark in Daejeon, the Eagles clawed back from a nine-run deficit against the LG Twins and won, … Read more
In a league where a 200-hit season has happened only a small handful of times in more than four decades of play, one import outfielder is trying to do something no one in Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) history has ever managed: reach that milestone twice. Victor Reyes, the Lotte Giants’ star outfielder, is not just … Read more
On August 21, 2026, in the fifth inning of a game at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, a 38-year-old left-handed pitcher retired a hitter on a routine fly ball to left field. There was no walk-off celebration, no highlight-reel strikeout, and no trophy presentation. And yet that single out — Kim Geon-hee, flying out to … Read more
Every summer, a handful of players who couldn’t crack a Major League Baseball roster fly across the Pacific to keep their careers alive in the KBO League, South Korea’s top professional baseball league. Most of them are trying to prove they still belong. Almost none of them get the chance to prove it back in … Read more
955 days. That’s how long it took Kiwoom Heroes right-hander An Woo-jin to throw another pitch in a KBO League game — and when he finally did, on April 12, 2026, the radar gun read 159 kilometers per hour, roughly 98.8 miles per hour. For a pitcher many scouts and Korean baseball writers had already … Read more