20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful

Nov 02, 2025

20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. Coach Ryu Ji-hyun is responding to the interview before the game. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/



20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. 2026 World Baseball Classic Official Ball to be used for athletes' training. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/
20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. Coach Lee Jin-young is watching the players' training. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/
"It will be a good opportunity to adapt to the fast pitch clock."

The first training session of the Korean baseball team led by new coach Ryu Ji-hyun has begun. In order to hold the K-baseball series against the Czech Republic (Gocheok on the 8th and 9th) and Japan (Tokyo on the 15th and 16th), they held their first training session at Goyang National Baseball Training Center on the 2nd.

LG (Kim Young-woo, Son Joo-young, Park Dong-won, Moon Bo-kyung, Shin Min-jae, Park Hae-min) and Hanwha (Moon Dong-ju, Kim Seo-hyun, Jung Woo-ju, Choi Jae-hoon, Noh Si-hwan, Moon Hyun-bin) who played the Korean Series will join the training from the 4th.




Four of the 35 first-time players, Doosan Choi Seung-yong, NC Kim Young-kyu, Samsung Koo Ja-wook and LG Moon Sung-joo, will be injured, while Lotte Lee Min-seok, Samsung Lee Ho-sung and Sangmu Lee Jae-won will join the team, and a total of 34 players will play the warm-up match.

This warm-up match is the process of preparing for the World Baseball Classic, which will be held in March next year.

Coach Ryu Ji-hyun of the national team said, `After the warm-up match against Japan, we plan to quickly hold a power reinforcement committee to confirm the players who will go to Saipan's first camp in January next year (January 9-21) and inform the players so that they can prepare in advance.' The final entry for WBC, which must be submitted by February 3rd next year, is 30 people. I plan to take more players to Saipan than this.




Coach Ryu said, `We will take more players than the entry because we have to look at the conditions of the players and prepare for possible injuries.'

20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. The players are warming up. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/
20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. The players are warming up by stretching. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/
20 seconds → 15 seconds, 25 seconds → 18 seconds. 7 seconds faster pitch clock experience. I also touch the official WBC ball in advance. Director Ryu Jihyun will be very helpful
The national baseball team began its first training session at Goyang Baseball Team Training Center in Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of the 2nd. The infielders are on their knees and getting punted. Goyang = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.11.2/
What makes this warm-up match different from the KBO League is ABS and pitch clock.

In the KBO League, computers have judged strikes and balls for two years, but in other international competitions such as WBC, the referee makes the decision himself. In the Premier 12 last year, players threw balls and strikes at the referee's decision.




The biggest problem is pitch clock. Korea applied it fairly loosely as it was the first year of the pitch clock with 20 seconds when there was no runner and 25 seconds when there was a runner, but in the Major League, it gives 15 seconds when there is a runner and 18 seconds when there is a runner, which is much shorter than Korea.

Manager Ryu said, `The pitch clock is very fast with 15 seconds and 18 seconds, and I check it very firmly than the referees in our league"Our players should experience it in advance. Batters should also feel what they prepare for at-bat, and pitchers should feel about the departure of the pitcher's plate as they play"

There were pros and cons about what the national team's warm-up match after the season means, but considering next year's WBC, experiencing the application of rules different from the KBO League in advance will be of great help. Coach Ryu also said, `The four games we are playing now will be in accordance with the WBC regulations. It will be played without extra time to prevent player injury. I think you'll be able to get a lot of help in getting acquainted with the regulations in advance."

Pitchers began training with WBC's official ball, which will be used in next year's WBC.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.