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Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association, announced today that The Angeles Dodgers and san diego padres will open the regular season of the MLB in 2024 with two games in Seoul, South Korea. The matches will be played on March 20 and 21, 2024.
“We are looking forward to playing significant Major League games for the first time in front of the outstanding South Korean baseball fans next season.Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten said.
“The Dodgers have a long and proud history of helping to grow the game abroad, highlighted by our trips to Mexico, China and Australia. It is very exciting to add Korea to the list. I know our players are thrilled to showcase their talents in a country so rich in baseball tradition and talent. including former Dodgers Chan Ho Park, Hee-Seop Choi and Hyun-Jin Ryu”, continued the boss of the ninth Angelina.
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Mark your calendar because the Dodgers are heading to Korea! The boys in blue will take on the Padres on 3/20 and 3/21 for the Seoul Series. pic.twitter.com/Vm5FktJmUA
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 12, 2023
First international trip for the Dodgers since 2018
For the Dodgers, this will be their first international trip since playing the Padres in Monterrey, Mexico in 2018.. Los Angeles also played in the 2014 Sydney opener against the Diamondbacks, the 2010 exhibition games in Taiwan against the Chinese Professional Baseball League. -Stars, the 2008 exhibition games against the Padres in Beijing, China, the 2003 exhibition games against the Mets in Mexico City, and the 1988 exhibition games against the Montreal Expos in San Juan and Bayamón, Puerto Rich.
Over the years, the Dodgers also played additional exhibition games and went on amazing tours in Japan, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
Korean players who have passed through the ranks of the Dodgers
Los Angeles has had four South Korean-born players, starting with Chan Ho Park (1994-2001, 2008), who was the first Korean native to play in the Major Leagues in 1994. Since then, Hee Seop Choi (2004-05), Jae Wong Seo (2006) and Hyun Jin Ryu (2013-19) have played for the Dodgers. Park (2001) and Ryu (2019) both made All-Star teams and are two of four Korean-born players to appear in the Midsummer Classic, joining Byung-Hyun Kim (2002) and Shin-Soo Choo (2018).
The Opening Series in South Korea will mark the ninth international opening match outside the 50 United States and Canada in the history of the Major Leagues, after the 1999 Opening Game in Monterrey, Mexico between the Rockies and the Padres, 2000 in TokyoJapan between the Mets and the Chicago Cubs, the 2001 Opening Game in San Juan, Puerto Rico between the Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays.
there is also the 2004 Opening Series in Tokyo between the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the New York Yankees, 2008 in Tokyo between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics, 2012 in Tokyo between the Athletics and the Seattle Mariners, 2014 in SydneyAustralia between the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks and 2019 in Tokyo between the Athletics and Mariners.
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