Lee Jung-hoo has spent three seasons in Major League Baseball answering a version of the same question, over and over: could the player who terrorized KBO pitching for years actually hit for power against the best arms in the world? On September 19, in the second inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, … Read more
A day after a lopsided loss snapped their own attempt at an eight-game winning streak, the KT Wiz needed a response — and they delivered one of the loudest possible kind. On September 19 at KT Wiz Park in Suwon, KT pounded out 16 hits against the Doosan Bears, scoring five runs in the sixth … Read more
For seven straight games, nothing could slow down the KT Wiz. The KBO League’s first-place team had won its way to a two-game cushion over the Samsung Lions, and an eighth consecutive victory would have pushed that lead out further still, deep into territory that would have made the season’s final three weeks look almost … Read more
Harry Kane has spent the better part of two decades building a reputation as one of the most efficient goal-scorers in modern football, but even by his standards, what happened at Allianz Arena on September 18 stood out. In the 39th minute of Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga clash with Union Berlin, Kane stepped up to convert … Read more
For most of the 2026 season, South Korea’s three regular position players in Major League Baseball have given fans on both sides of the Pacific plenty of reasons to pay attention. Lee Jung-hoo has spent the year establishing himself as a legitimate everyday outfielder for the San Francisco Giants. Kim Ha-sung has tried to rebuild … Read more
With three weeks left in the KBO League’s regular season, the KT Wiz hold first place by 2.5 games over the Samsung Lions. In most leagues, a two-and-a-half game cushion in mid-September would barely register as a storyline — plenty of cushion, plenty of time, nothing to see here. In the KBO, where finishing first … Read more
Kim Do-young still leads the KBO League in home runs. He has 40 of them, more than anyone else in Korean professional baseball this season, and no one has actually caught him. But for roughly two weeks now, he also hasn’t been allowed to add to that total — not because of a slump, and … Read more
South Korea’s Asian Games baseball team had one exhibition game left before boarding a flight to Japan, and for most of it, the tune-up looked like exactly the kind of result a coaching staff dreads two days before a tournament: down three runs, bullpen options thinning out, and a lineup built around a leadoff experiment … Read more
There is a particular kind of pressure that shows up in a pennant race only in its final weeks, when every team left standing has already proven it belongs and the games start to feel less like baseball and more like a long-running argument nobody wants to lose. On September 15, in two different cities … Read more
Baseball history has a habit of repeating itself in strange, specific increments — not whole careers echoing each other, but single stretches of a single season lining up decades apart. In the Korea Baseball Organization, one of those increments is four consecutive quality starts by a pitcher who was drafted straight out of high school … Read more