Kiwoom Heroes and LG Twins, who will play practice games with the LA Dodgers and San Diego Padres, are not expected to be able to use the away team locker room.

The Dodgers and San Diego entered Korea through Incheon International Airport on the 15th. It is to play the two consecutive games of the opening of the 2024 Major League season at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul.

As part of its world tour to expand the base of baseball, the Major League Baseball will host two consecutive games that open in the 2024 season between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres in Seoul. It is all the more significant because it is the first time that a regular season game of the Major League Baseball will take place in Korea, and the season opener. If the Seoul Series is successfully held, Korea will become the 12th country where the Major League Baseball game took place. It is the fifth time that a regular season opener of the Major League Baseball will take place overseas, following Monterey in Mexico, Tokyo in Japan, San Juan in Puerto Rico, and Sydney in Australia.

The Dodgers and San Diego are scheduled to play the Seoul Series at Gocheok Dome on the 20th and 21st. Prior to the Seoul Series, the games between Dodgers and Kiwoom, Team Korea and San Diego will be held on the 17th, and the games between San Diego and LG and Team Korea and Dodgers will be held on the 18th.

The “MLB World Tour Seoul Series Special Game,” where KBO league players can play against major league players, can be a valuable experience for Korean players. Considering this, KBO consists of young players who will lead the Korean baseball, including Kim Hye-sung Kium, who will advance to the Major League after the end of this season, Moon Dong-ju, Noh Si-hwan, Hwang Joon-seo Hanwha, Kim Hye-sung Kium, Kim Taek-yeon Doosan, and Park Young-hyun KT.

Kiwoom players also have high expectations for the special game against Dodgers. The opportunity to play against Major League players, especially legendary players such as Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, is a valuable experience that does not come easily. Unfortunately, however, Kiwoom players are not even able to enter the away team’s locker room at Gocheok Dome, their home stadium.

The secretariat of the Major League has rented the Gocheok Dome until Sunday to host the Seoul Series. During this period, Major League teams, not Kiwoom, use the stadium. In the “MLB World Tour Seoul Series Special Game,” away teams, such as Kiwoom and LG, use the underground conference room rather than the away team’s locker room. This is because the Dodgers and San Diego use both the first and third base club houses.

Gocheok Dome underwent remodeling work shortly after the end of last season ahead of the Seoul Series. The ground and away team clubhouse have been extensively renovated. During this period, Kiwoom’s team could not use Gocheok Dome at all. Even players and club officials were restricted from entering the ground. The remodeling work was completed, but Kiwoom played all of the KBO League exhibition games as away games. There are no Kiwoom players who have played properly at the Gocheok Dome ground yet.

Gocheok Dome, which opened in November 2015, has been used as Kiwoom’s home stadium since 2016. From Kiwoom’s point of view, it is good that the stadium was remodeled for the Seoul Series, but it is regrettable that the stadium was not used at all until just before the opening of the season. Moreover, in practice games against the Dodgers, they enter Gocheok Dome as an away team and cannot even use the away team’s locker room. The situation is not much different between LG and Team Korea.

There is a lot of regret, but it is still meaningful that a Major League game will be held in Korea. Fans are excited about how Korean players will perform in the games between Major League teams, KBO League and the Korean national team ahead of the opening game of the Major League Baseball in Korea for the first time ever. 메이저사이트