Let's see if the ABS zone is really low. Baseball starts again from March 8. KBO exhibition game schedule confirmed
Feb 05, 2025
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KBO announced the schedule of exhibition games this season on the 5th.
The 2025 KBO exhibition game will be held from March 8 to 18 with a total of 50 games, 10 games per team
The opening games will be held in Suwon (LG-KT), Cheongju (Doosan-Hanwha), Daegu (SSG-Samsung), Busan (KIA-Lotte), and Changwon (Kium-NC).
This exhibition game schedule was organized in consideration of the situation of the stadium (Jamsil: March 8-12, March 15-16/ Gocheok: March 8-14/ Incheon: March 8-9/ Daejeon: March 8-16/ Gwangju: March 8-13/ Daegu: March 15-18).
From the exhibition games, all new rules and rules to be applied in the 2025 season will be applied. The modified ABS zone is applied, and the pitch clock rule is also applied. It also applies to the rule that has been changed from the 3-foot line to the 3-foot line, mainly from the dirt section inside the foul line.
KBO finally decided to apply 55.75% of the top and 27.04% of the top by lowering 0.6 percentage points (about 1 cm for players of 180 cm in height) in the ABS strike zone applied last year through the executive committee on December 4 last year. Overall, the strike zone is about 1 cm lower than last year.
In addition, for the pitch clock, which will be officially applied in the first team starting this year, the interval between at-bats was set at 33 seconds, the interval between pitchers was set at 20 seconds when there was no runner, and 25 seconds when there was a runner. The number of timeouts for batters per at-bat will be allowed up to two innings. The inning shift time and pitcher replacement time were also partially adjusted to reflect the opinions of the field. The inning shift time increased from the current 2 minutes to 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and the pitcher replacement time during the inning was moved by 10 seconds from 2 minutes and 20 seconds to 2 minutes and 10 seconds.
In addition, for the 3-foot first base, which has been controversial every season, the rule that had to run inside the 3-foot lane drawn on the ground in the second half of the first base will be expanded to allow it to run to the dirt inside the fair area on the first base. The rule has been revised by Major League Baseball since this season, and it is expected that the inconvenience and confusion experienced by right-handed hitters will be minimized by clarifying the scope of runners. However, stepping on the grass and running on it does not necessarily mean that the runner is out, and if the judge determined that he interfered with the fielder who ran over the infield lawn and handled the throw to the first base, he decided to deal with the rule violation.
The exhibition games are open to athletes and nurturing players, and there is no limit on the number of participants. In addition, all exhibition games will begin at 1 p.m. and no overtime and doubleheader will be played. Cancellation matches will not be reorganized, and video readings can be applied twice per team (but one more time if the decision is reversed twice in a row)
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
