Missing sports? Thanks to a newly-inked ESPN deal, people outside of South Korea will have a chance to watch the Korean Baseball Organization — and those epic bat flips — if they're willing to stay up late for it.
The network will broadcast live six regular season KBO games during its 2020 season. One game per day will be televised Tuesday through Sunday with start times beginning between 1 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. ET.
"We're thrilled to become the exclusive English-language home to the KBO League and to showcase its compelling action and high-level of competition," Burke Magnus, ESPN's executive vice president of programming, said in a statement. "We have a longstanding history of documenting the game of baseball and we're excited to deliver these live events to sports fans," Magnus added.
Those live events began Tuesday, in a matchup between the NC Dinos and the Samsung Lions. It was scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. ET, but asOnce underway, the game, played without fans, provided some longed-for action, like a home run blast from NC Dino outfielderof the homer, and because there was no crowd reaction, the commentators were initially confused about whether the ball was fair or foul.
"Nobody seemed to react at all. There's obviously no crowd, but the right fielder didn't react and finally [Sung-bum] runs around the bases," the ESPN commentator said.
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