South Korea’s Asian Games baseball team, a roster stacked with KBO League professionals and carrying the military-service futures of 16 of its 24 players, lost 0-5 to Japan on September 25 in the first game of the Super Round at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. The result on its own would sting. What made it … Read more
The KT Wiz became the first team in this year’s KBO League to reach 80 wins, clinching the milestone with a 3-2 victory over the NC Dinos on September 24 — a result built on a dominant start from Davis Daniel and a solo home run from Sam Hilliard that quietly reshaped the league’s home … Read more
Kim Ha-seong has not managed a hit in 20 consecutive at-bats. His batting average sits at .113, a number that would look more at home on a National League pitcher’s stat line from the pre-designated-hitter era than on an everyday infielder drawing a $20 million salary. And yet, on the same night his slump reached … Read more
Kim Ha-seong has not recorded a hit in six consecutive games. His batting average, once respectable enough to justify a $20 million bet on himself, has fallen to .116. And it is happening at the worst possible moment: in the final stretch of a season in which the Atlanta Braves have already clinched the National … Read more
Lee Jung-hoo’s third season in the major leagues ended the way a lot of baseball injuries do: on a play that, in the moment, looked almost too small to matter. In the sixth inning of a road game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 21, the San Francisco Giants outfielder fouled a pitch straight … Read more
By the time South Korea’s baseball team finished its group stage at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 23, the results had stopped looking like a competition and started looking like a mismatch. Three games, three wins, and a combined score of 36-1 against Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, and Thailand. The last of those … Read more
For about eighty-nine minutes on September 20, Son Heung-min authored the kind of performance that reminds an entire league why a 33-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur captain, arriving in Major League Soccer with more silverware and more global recognition than perhaps any player the league has ever signed, still moves at a different speed than almost … Read more
Six months ago, in a World Baseball Classic elimination game in Tokyo, South Korea’s national baseball team held a lead against Chinese Taipei, lost it, tied the game back up in dramatic fashion, and then lost anyway in extra innings — a defeat that, for a program used to treating Chinese Taipei as a lesser … Read more
There is a version of a breakout moment that arrives quietly, buried in a stat line nobody checks until days later. And then there is what Lee Kang-in did on September 20, in the biggest club fixture Spanish football has to offer, in front of a full stadium and a global television audience: he started … Read more
For seven innings on September 20, the KT Wiz looked like a team cruising toward a routine win over the Doosan Bears at KT Wiz Park in Suwon, South Korea. Starter Ko Young-pyo was dealing, the offense had built a commanding 9-1 lead, and the first-place club appeared to be quietly padding its cushion atop … Read more