2025 Professional Baseball League Without International Competition will also open in March. Why?"Consider cancellation of heat wave and rain"
2025 Professional Baseball League Without International Competition will also open in March. Why?"Consider cancellation of heat wave and rain"
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The 2025 regular season of professional baseball will kick off on March 22 next year. This season started in March 23 for the first time in five years since the 2019 season due to the aftermath of the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12, which took place last month, and will be maintained next year in preparation for heat waves and cancellations of rain.안전놀이터
The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced on Tuesday the schedule of the 2025 regular season league. The opening day will be March 22 next year, which was pushed forward by a week this year. This year's heat wave postponed four games and declared the first suspended game in the Korean Series, which was based on the difficulties caused by rain.
"Recently, climate change has been severe and unpredictable," a KBO official told the Seoul Shimbun over the phone. "If the postseason schedule is delayed too much, problems such as cold can occur. We decided on the timing after considering it comprehensively."
Next year's KBO regular season will have a total of 720 games, 144 games per team. The opening game will be organized into home games for the top five teams in the 2024 season. The opening game will be held at five stadiums: Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul (Lotte Giants-LG Twins), SSG Landers Field in Incheon (Doosan Bears-SSG Landers), KTWiz Park in Suwon (Hanwha Eagles-kt Wiz), Samsung Lions Park in Daegu (Kium Heroes-Samsung Lions), and Kia Champions Field in Gwangju (NC Dinos-KIA Tigers).
Doosan, which came in fourth, was assigned an away game due to overlapping stadiums with LG, which came in third. Also, Children's Day is scheduled to be held on May 5, but games have been organized. The three consecutive games will be held in Jamsil (LG-Doosan), Gocheok (KIA-Kium) in Seoul, Daejeon (Samsung-Hanwha), Busan (SSG-Lotte), and Changwon (kt-NC) in accordance with the biennial rules. Hence, the date of move will be May 8.
The KBO All-Star Game will be held at Daejeon Baseball Dream Park, which opens a new stadium on July 12 next year. The All-Star break period has been extended from four days to six days (July 11-16). The second half of the regular season league will open with four consecutive games from July 17. Except for the two opening games and the four games right after the All-Star Game break, all games will be held as three consecutive games and 135 games per team will be played through Aug. 31. The 45 games (9 games per team) that have not been played will be postponed due to rain and other reasons.
According to the principle of organizing 73 home games and 71 away games every other year, Doosan, kt, SSG, Lotte, and Hanwha will play 73 home games and the rest 71 games in the 2025 season.