Korea Baseball Organization
The Korea Baseball Organization ( KBO ) is the professional baseball association and organizer of the professional league of the Republic of Korea. The league was founded in 1982 with six teams; Today it consists of new teams.
The season begins in late March and ends in October with the playoffs and the Korean Series. Most teams include chaebol, the large industrial conglomerates, and enter their names.
- 3.1 Game Rules
- 3.2 Limitation of foreign players
Current composition
Game Mode
In the regular season, each of the 9 teams completed 128 games (16 against every competitor ), for a total of 576 games.
Then in October, followed by the playoffs, which begin with a best-of -five series between the Third and Fourth. The winner then plays out a best- of-seven duel against second placed the regular season. The winner qualifies for the Korean Series ( Hanguk Series) against the First League, in which in a maximum of seven games - will be decided at the end of October, the Championship - plus any draw.
The winner took between 2005 and 2008 in November at the Asia Series against the masters of China, Japan and Taiwan in part. 2009 will be held just a game against the Japanese master.
All-Star Game
In mid-July each year hosts the All- Star Game of the KBO, where the best players in the league face each other as " East" and " West". The "East" team consists of players from team SK, Samsung, Doosan and Lotte, the "West" team recruited from the cadres of Kia, Hanwha, LG and Woori. The directions do not correspond it with a geographical breakdown: The four teams from the north-western population centers Seoul and Incheon spread equal to East ( SK, Doosan ) and West ( LG, Woori ).
Regulate
Game rules
In the KBO are a score ' draw ' possible case of a tie a game in the regular season after 12 innings in the postseason after 15 innings is a draw.
Limitation of foreign players
Teams may have a maximum of two foreign players in the squad. Foreign players come mainly from the United States, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Successful players in the KBO often change in the Japanese NPB to the best known are there Lee Seung- Yeop and Tyrone Woods.
History
The opening match was held between the Samsung Lions and the MBC Blue Dragons in the Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul on 27 March 1982. President Chun threw out the first pitch.
The founding teams were:
- The Samsung Lions Daegu,
- The Haitai Tigers of Gwangju,
- The Lotte Giants of Busan,
- The MBC Blue Dragons (MBC Cheongryong ) from Seoul,
- The OB Bears from Daejeon and
- The Sammi Superstars from Incheon.
1985 from the Sammi Superstars Cheongbo Pintos. A year later, in 1986, attracted the OB Bears from Daejeon to Seoul and shared henceforth the Jamsil Baseball Stadium with MBC Cheongryong. Instead of the Bears, the Eagles were Binggrae located in Daejeon, the league grew to seven teams. 1988 changed the Pintos again the owners and were now called Taepyeongyang Dolphins. 1990 MBC Cheongryong became the LG Twins and the Ssangbangul Raiders of Jeonju in Jeollabuk-do Province, the league was expanded to include an eighth team.
In the 1990s, there were only minor changes to the league structure, as some teams changed hands: In 1993, the Eagles Binggrae the Hanwha Eagles, 1995 from the Dolphins Taepyeongyang the Hyundai Unicorns and the OB Bears in 1999 to the Doosan Bears. In 2000 there was another major change, as the Raiders einstellten the game operation. For the SK Wyverns came from Incheon newly added, and the Hyundai Unicorns moved to Suwon to. In 2001, the Kia Tigers Haitai. Another change took place in 2008 when the Hyundai Unicorns moved as Woori Heroes to Seoul. As a ninth team 2013 NC Dinos was added from Changwon.
Master
Giants are the Kia Tigers, the 27 championships decided as Haitai Tigers nine for themselves.