KBO regular season ends with final seed race ahead of Oct. 14 postseason

As the regular season in South Korean baseball heads toward the finish line, just one postseason spot is still up for grabs, with two rival clubs trying to earn a bye to a playoff round. In the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), the top five teams at the end of each regular season advance to the postseason. The pennant winner earns a bye to the Korean Series, and for this year, it will be the KT Wiz, who secured the best record in the regular season Monday with four games to spare. The Samsung Lions are locked into the second spot, which will give them a bye to the best-of-five second round. A loss to the LG Twins on Wednesday meant the Doosan Bears will finish in fifth place, as their slim hope of climbing further up the standings evaporated. The Bears will be the visiting team in the wild card round starting next Wednesday. This leaves the Twins and the Kia Tigers fighting for the No. 3 seed and a bye to the best-of-five first round. The team that finishes in fourth place will be the host of the wild card round, where it will only need a win or a tie in two attempts to advance. The Bear

SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Yonhap) -- As the regular season in South Korean baseball heads t...

The Korean baseball postseason will begin next week for a run that could last as long as four weeks, the league office announced Wednesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the postseason will begin with the wild card round next Wednesday between the fourth-place team and the fifth-place team in the regular season. The higher-seeded team only needs a win or a tie in two attempts to advance to the next round. However, the lower-seeded club must win two straight games to advance to the next phase. The wild card round was added to the postseason in 2015, and only once has a fifth-place team upset a fourth-place team — the 2024 KT Wiz over the Doosan Bears. After the wild card round, the first round will be the best-of-five affair, with the No. 3 team from the regular season earning a bye and awaiting the wild card winner. The Kia Tigers, the LG Twins and the Bears are still jostling for positions for the final three postseason spots. The winner of this series will go on to face the No. 2 team from the regular season in the second round, also a best-of-five competition. The Samsung

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean baseball postseason will begin next w...