Sorry there’s no video of this, but something tells me you can piece together what happened. This was during tonight’s LG Twins/Woori Heroes game. The batter was Cliff Brumbaugh, who is just about the last person I’d want inflicting this upon me.

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I’ve been waiting for this. Here’s an editorial from a Korean reporter for OSNews, upset at the recent rash (well, two) of foreigners running onto the field at Korean pro baseball games. Korea Beat has the translation.
Let me say up front I don’t approve of spectators running onto the field at baseball games. You catch […]

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I know I know, I keep changing the title of this thing every week…dates, week numbers, now titles. At any rate, for my money, this was the most exciting week of the season thus far. Kia, a team I thought would really compete this year, might finally be turning things around. Would I be exaggerating if […]

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Another foreigner got into the action of a Korean baseball game. This time in the eighth inning of Saturday night’s Hanwha/LG tilt in Daejeon. Not sure what this cat was drinking, but a no shoes, no socks, madras slide into home seems like something one might regret come Sunday morning. Maybe he got a hold of some U.S. […]

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It’s been a tumultuous few weeks for fans of Limatime. First, the reports of his demise by several Korean sports outlets spawned a outpouring of sadness from all corners of the globe. When it was discovered he had in fact not been released, but sent to the dregs of the Korean minor leagues, a shred […]

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There was an interesting moment in tonight’s Lotte/Hanwha game. Definitely a cultural misunderstanding, but as someone who’s lived in Korea for a while, I think I’m able to see this from both sides.
Ma Hae-yeong, a longtime Lotte fan favorite at the very (very) end of his career, was walked with the bases-loaded to net his […]

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With the odd week due to the Children’s Day holiday on Monday I waited an extra 24-hours to unleash this week’s rankings. As I’m writing this Ryu Hyun-jin has just walked in the tying run against Lotte. Surprisingly, the batter he walked, Kang Min-ho, is .326 career against arguably the best pitcher in the league.
FYI the KBO was been […]

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Pretty neat story in the Korean league from yesterday as Cho Jin-ho won his first professional game in nearly five years when he scattered four hits over six innings, not allowing a run and picking up the win for Samsung. 
Cho was signed out of high school by the Boston Red Sox and actually made 11 […]

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I want to mention a few observations I had as the 42nd President’s Cup, which I was scouting through this last Monday, heads toward the final today (1 p.m. KBS for those living in Korea). For the most part Koreans don’t care about high school baseball anymore, but this wasn’t always the case. Many of the baseball schools were founded […]

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I suppose this will be the last Cubs signing from Korea that I haven’t seen play much first-hand. I don’t even have a lot to report, but I at least wanted to acknowledge his signing and pass along some of what I’ve heard since it’s clearly been big news in my part of the world. […]

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Since I’m late with these anyway, to the extent that this week’s games are happening as I type this, I’m going to make this an abbreviated version. I was able to take in a couple KBO games while I was in Seoul. The first was last Wednesday’s LG/Hanwha game at Jamsil. The Twins led the […]

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I’ll explore this further as the season goes on but I’m starting to think the SK Wyvrens may be the best professional team in Asia. I know that’s a loaded statement, and one that deserves more than a sentence or two at the top of a weekly power rankings, but I believe it to be […]

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A couple of wild happenings at yesterday’s Doosan/SK tilt. First, check out this takeout slide by Doosan’s Kim Jae-ho on SK’s Oh Jae-hwan. Note the slice on Oh’s left pant leg.

There were some dramatics following the play that included SK’s coach Kim Sung-kun getting on the ground and demonstrating what had happened.

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UPDATE:As it turns out Jose Lima has (maybe) not (quite) been released by the Kia Tigers. Indeed it was reported as having already happened by the Hanguk Ilbo in the story I linked to in the original post, and by others, but as was suggested in the comments section, it hasn’t quite happened yet. Reports tonight make it sound like Kia […]

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Shin Min-chul of the Samsung Lions gets a finger in the chest from the umpire after giving some lip following a called third strike. Check out the look on the base coach’s face as he pulls up in shock. Samsung lost the game 1-4.

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Fans of the KBO will remember the incredible number of rainouts that kept the 2007 season going through the end of October and into early November. This week saw the cancellation of just two games (three on the year), but one of those games was between Samsung and Lotte, arguably the two hottest teams in […]

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Today’s a day off for the KBO so with all the teams having played seven or eight games let’s take advantage of the break and run down the rankings as they stand today. In my head. Last week’s rankings are in parenthesis the team records can be found on the KBO page in the bottom […]

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don’t miss many opportunities.

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The KBO opened over the weekend, and with my computer on the fritz I was able to take in a few games over the weekend. Lotte, in a rather small sample of two games, has looked fantastic, shellacking Hanhwa on opening day by an 11-1 score, then winning a closer Sunday game 9-8. Lee Dae-ho […]

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Taking some info from a Korea Beat post, True Stories of Korean Baseball has an interesting breakdown of how much each team spent per win during 2007.
Samsung(6.2 billion) = 97.3 million per win
Hanhwa (4.6 billion) = 68.3 million per win
Kia (3.5 billion) = 69.75 million per win
Doosan (2.8 billion) = 40.58 million per win
SK (4.02 billion) = 53.2 million […]

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