Korean Baseball Team's Shift Is so Extreme That Umpire Won't Allow It

[MikeSafari]

 

Just wow.

[basejester]

If I saw this right, they positioned an extra player if foul territory.

 

[MikeSafari]

Yeah. Obviously I don't know the rules of the Korean Professional League, but I can't imagine that it's legal there since it's illegal pretty much everywhere else.

Not really sure what the coach was going for.

[basejester]

Intentional walk?  Planning an appeal to home?

[JHSump]

Now, that's a radical shift.

Anyone catch the team name (on the jersey)?

 

[basejester]

Anyone catch the team name (on the jersey)?

 

​Love together?  Yeah, what the hell ?

 

 

 

[MikeSafari]

Apparently all KBO League teams are named/sponsored by various corporations, so I'd assume this is one of Kia's ad campaigns right now.

[maven]

​Love together?  Yeah, what the hell ?

 

 

 

​East Asian advertisers often use English in ways that we would not recognize as appropriate, relevant, or otherwise intelligible. For many in Korea, Japan, and China, our Latin letters are just shapes without any sense at all.

Last month, I saw a college student with a tattoo of Chinese characters that read: "Love water sweet home." He told me that it was Zen, but I doubt it. I'd guess he just picked 4 random cool characters.

[tiger49]

The Player was protecting against a WP/PB. They were going to IBB the batter. Winning run was on 3B.