Cho Sang-woo of 'Kia→KIA' will face his first match with his old team on March 25th...Samsung Furado-Kyum Kadynes to clash in opening match on March 22
Cho Sang-woo of 'Kia→KIA' will face his first match with his old team on March 25th...Samsung Furado-Kyum Kadynes to clash in opening match on March 22
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The schedule for the 2025 KBO League regular season has been announced. The schedule for the first visit by star players who have left their affectionate teams has also been confirmed.
Cho Sang-woo (pitcher), who will leave the Kiwoom Heroes and start anew with the KIA Tigers, will meet his old teammates in Gwangju on March 25. Heo Kyung-min (infielder), who moved from the Doosan Bears to the KT Wiz, will invite his old teammates to his home turf on March 25.
Pitcher Um Sang-baek and infielder Shim Woo-joon, who earned their first career FA qualification and wore Hanwha uniforms, will meet KT as enemies in the regular season opener on March 22.
Right-hander Choi Won-tae, who will play the role of starting pitcher for the Samsung Lions, will meet his former team for the first time since moving to Jamsil on April 15. Jang Hyun-sik, a former hold king, will have a showdown with KIA batters on April 4. Kim Kang-ryul, a former Doosan Bears pitcher, will face Doosan for the first time on April 11.
Ariel Furado, a foreign pitcher who played for Kiwoom for two years from last year and became a new member of Samsung starting next year, will face his old teammates at home on March 22. Ruben Cardinez, a foreign hitter who played for Samsung this season, will also make his first appearance at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in Kiwoom uniform.
Another showdown between Hanwha Eagles pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin and Kiwoom foreign hitter Yasiel Puig, who formed a fantastic duo with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is also drawing attention. Three consecutive games of Hanwha and Kiwoom are scheduled in Daejeon for three days from April 11.
Meanwhile, the 2025 KBO regular season will open on March 22 with a total of 720 games, 144 games per team.
The opening game will be organized as a home game for the top five teams in this season's final ranking, and will kick off the long journey with two consecutive games at Jamsil (Lotte-LG), Munhak (Doosan-SSG), Suwon (Hanwha-KT), Daegu (Kium-Samsung), and Gwangju (NC-KIA). Doosan, ranked fourth, has an away game due to overlapping stadiums with LG, ranked third, and SSG, ranked sixth, has a home game.
May 5 is Monday, but considering that it is Children's Day, the games will be organized. According to the biennial principle, games will be held in Jamsil (LG-Doosan), Gocheok (KIA-Kium), Daejeon (Samsung-Hanwha), Sajik (SSG-Lotte), and Changwon (KT-NC) from May 5 to 7. Accordingly, May 8 is scheduled to be moved.
The KBO All-Star Game is scheduled to be held in Daejeon on July 12. The All-Star Game break period has been extended from July 11 to July 16 from the previous four days to six days. The second half of the regular season starts with four consecutive games from July 17.
In addition, all games except the opening two games and the four games right after the All Star game break have been organized as three consecutive games, with 135 games per team being prearranged until Aug. 31. The 45 games (9 games per team) that have not been planned will be arranged later along with games that are canceled due to rain and other reasons.
Meanwhile, 메이저놀이터 Doosan, KT, SSG, Lotte, and Hanwha were organized into 73 home games and 71 away games based on the principle of organizing 73 home games and 71 away games every other year by comprehensively considering the distance traveled between teams and marketing factors.