SSG Landers slugger Choi Jeong on Tuesday hit his 467 career home run in the bottom of the ninth inning during a game between the Landers and Kia Tigers at SSG Landers Field in Incheon
SSG Landers slugger Choi Jeong on Tuesday hit his 467th career home run to tie the all-time KBO record held by retired Samsung Lions star Lee Seung-yuop. Here's a look at Choi's career so far in pictures.
The KBO this year became the most prominent league in the world to adopt the automated ball-strike system (ABS), more commonly known as the robot umpire. ABS met its greatest challenge yet over the weekend — human error and an attempted cover-up.
Bat flipping, known by the onomatopoetic ppadun, combining bat and throw in Korean, is exactly what it sounds like — the act of a hitter flipping their bat through the air in the split second between hitting the ball and starting that long run to...
The Kiwoom Heroes rode a seven-game winning streak into the top three last week as the NC Dinos seized first over a particularly high-scoring weekend of KBO action and the Hanwha Eagles tumbled down to fourth.
Bat flipping may be a sin in the United States, but it's an art in Korea. How did American baseball's biggest taboo become a celebrated part of the Korean game and what's next for the much-loved KBO bat flip?
Lee Jung-hoo of the Giants exploded on to the major league stage with an RBI in his big league debut, a multi-hit game with an RBI in his second appearance and a home run in his third. Here's the background on San Francisco's newest star
The Hanwha Eagles are starting to soar. Known for over a decade as the KBO’s perennial stragglers, the Eagles are finally back on top. The Daejeon club took first place on March 30, exactly 10 years since they last led the league on March 30, 2014
Kang, 38, surpassed the previous record of 2,237 appearances held by storied former LG Twins hitter Park Yong-taik, who retired from professional baseball in 2020.
Ryu Hyun-jin was welcomed back with a loss to mark his return to the KBO on Saturday as the SSG Landers, Samsung Lions and Kia Tigers rose to the top of the KBO pack over opening weekend.
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