At this rate, another foreign winner will come out. PBA 1st to 3rd Tour Champions Cho Klu Martinez Mori defeated Korean players and settled in the round of 64

Sep 03, 2025

At this rate, another foreign winner will come out. PBA 1st to 3rd Tour Champions Cho Klu Martinez Mori defeated Korean players and settled in the round of 64
David Martinez, winner of the second PBA Tour in the 2025-2026 season. Photo courtesy =PBA



At this rate, a foreign player could dominate the PBA Tour.

The professional baseball PBA in the 2025-2026 season seems to be an exclusive stage for foreign players. In the first to third tours, all foreign players won the championship. All of them also challenged the fourth tour. And as if they had promised, they defeated Korean players side by side and reached the round of 64.

The champions of the first to third PBA Tours in the 2025-2026 season, including Murat Najee Choclu (Türkiye, Hana Card), David Martinez (Spain, Crown Haitai), and Yusuke Mori (Japan, SY), all won in the round of 128.




These 'Champion trio' won all of them on the first day of the first round of the 'SY Veritehomme PBA-LPBA Championship' PBA 128 round of the professional baseball 2025-2026 season held at the 'Koyang KINTEX PBA Stadium' in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the 2nd. Martinez crushed Yongunhaeng with a set score of 3-0, while Mori and Choclu overwhelmed Bang Min-seo and Bae Jun-soo with a set score of 3-1.

Martinez, the winner of the second tour (Hana Card Championship), won 15-3 in six innings with nine high runs in the first set against Yong Un-haeng. The second set ended 15-4 after 10 innings. Yong Woon-haeng tried to fight back in the third set, but he knelt 7-15 after a close game of 16 innings.

At this rate, another foreign winner will come out. PBA 1st to 3rd Tour Champions Cho Klu Martinez Mori defeated Korean players and settled in the round of 64
Yusuke Mori, winner of the third PBA Tour from 2025 to 2026. Photo courtesy =PBA
At this rate, another foreign winner will come out. PBA 1st to 3rd Tour Champions Cho Klu Martinez Mori defeated Korean players and settled in the round of 64
2025~2026 season PBA opening tour winner Murat Najee Choclu, photo courtesy =PBA
Mori, the winner of the third tour (NH Nonghyup Card Charity Championship), then lost the first set 13-15 (16 innings) to Bang Min-seo. However, he won the second set 15-7 (7 innings), bringing the game back to square one, and won the third and fourth sets with overwhelming momentum. The fourth set ended 15-2 in just four innings.

Cho Clue, the winner of the opening tour (Woori Financial Capital Championship), also won after a similar game trend to Mori. He lost the first set against Bae Joon-soo, but won three sets from the second set.

Meanwhile, Cho Jae-ho (NH Nonghyup Card) and Choi Sung-won (Huons), who are considered as opponents to collapse the 'PBA foreigners-only system', also succeeded in advancing to the round of 64. Cho Jae-ho won the match against Yoon Kyun-ho, and Choi Sung-won won the set score 3-1 against Lee Sun-woong.

Veteran Lee Choong-bok, dubbed the 'three cushion bible', also defeated Kim Sung-min 2 3-0. Han Ji-seung (Welcome Savings Bank) won 3-0 against Burak Hashashi (High1 Resort) with an average of 2.647 against 'Turkiye Shinseong'. Han Ji-seung ranked No. 1 overall in Aberge on the day.




At this rate, another foreign winner will come out. PBA 1st to 3rd Tour Champions Cho Klu Martinez Mori defeated Korean players and settled in the round of 64
차유람. Photo courtesy =PBA
In addition, Choi Won-joon, Seo Hyun-min, Hwang Deuk-hee (SY), 'Belgian powerhouse'Eddie Refunce (SK Rent-a-Car), and Kim Jae-geun (Crown Haitai) reached the round of 64.

In the LPBA round of 32 that day, Kim Ga-young (Hana Card) beat Song Min-ji 3-0 with a set score to make the round of 16. Thong Piavi (Cambodia, Woori Financial Capital) also beat Lee Mari 3-0 to advance to the round of 16. On the other hand, Cha Yu-ram was ahead 2-0 on the set score against Han Seul-gi and lost three or four sets, and was eliminated in the ensuing match.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.