The season of baseball has come back. The exhibition game of professional baseball, which is a prelude to the regular season of professional baseball, will begin on Tuesday.

This year's exhibition game will be held on the 8th with a game between LG Twins-KT Wiz (Suwon KT Wiz Park), Doosan Bears-Hanwha Eagles (Cheongju Stadium), KIA Tigers-Lotte Giants (Sajik Stadium), and Kiwoom Heroes-NC Dinos (Changwon NC Park).먹튀검증

The exhibition game will continue until the 18th, with a total of 50 games, 10 games per team.

The rules and rules to be introduced in this year's regular season will be applied to the exhibition games.

The biggest change is the official introduction of pitch clock, which was piloted last year.

The pitch clock, which aims to add more excitement to the game by reducing the game time, was first introduced by the U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB), and is expected to be applied to the World Baseball Classic (WBC), organized by the MLB Secretariat, starting next year.

In the case of MLB, the average game time of the 2023 season when the company first introduced Peach Clock was reduced by 24 minutes. The average game time for the 2024 exhibition games was reduced by 19 minutes compared to the previous year.

In the 2024 season when the pitch clock was applied as a pilot, only warnings were given for violating this, but from this year, it will be applied thoroughly.

Starting this year, pitchers are required to pitch within 20 seconds when no runners are present and within 25 seconds when runners are present. Batters are required to bat within 33 seconds, and the number of timeouts per batter's box is up to two innings.

If you violate this, the pitcher will be given a ball and the batter will be given a strike.

When there is a runner, the pitching interval between pitchers has eased compared to MLB's 18 seconds and last year's exhibition game's 23 seconds.

Unlike MLB, the KBO League decided not to limit the departure of the pitching board.

The inning shift time increased from the current 2 minutes to 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and the pitcher replacement time during the inning was moved by 10 seconds from 2 minutes and 20 seconds to 2 minutes and 10 seconds.

The world's first automatic pitching decision system (ABS) strike zone introduced by the KBO League last year was adjusted to reflect on-site opinions.

ABS' strike zone in the 2024 season was based on 56.35% of the player's height at the top and 27.64% of the player's height at the bottom.

From this year, it will be lowered by 0.6%. In the case of 180cm tall players, the strike zone will be lowered by about 1cm.

Both affiliated players and nurturing players can participate in the exhibition game, and there is no limit on the number of participants.

All exhibition games start at 1 p.m., but Kiwoom-SSG (Incheon) and KT-NC (Changwon) on the 13th, KT-Lotte (Sajik) on the 15th, and Samsung-Hanwha (Daejeon) and SSG-KIA (Gwangju) on the 17th will kick off at 6 p.m. to adapt to the night game.

Starting from this year's regular season, overtime plays will be reduced from 12 to 11. As for exhibition games, overtime and doubleheader will not be played, and cancellation games will not be reorganized.

Video readings can be applied twice for each team, and if the decision is reversed twice in a row, one more will be added.

The exhibition game is a stage where 10 teams that have prepared for the season in the winter will check their power.

Ahead of the regular season, which opens on the 22nd, players will check their skills and physical condition for the last time.

Players who represent each team focus on enhancing their sense of play in the real game. It is an opportunity for backup players and rookie players to show off their presence.

In this year's spring camp, rookies in the 2025 season, including Jung Hyun-woo (Kium), Jung Woo-ju (Hanwha), Bae Chan-seung (Samsung), and Kim Young-woo (LG), stood out, inflating expectations.

Teams that have been left vacant due to injuries during spring camp look for alternative resources.

SSG should come up with alternatives as it is unclear whether Mitch White, an ambitious foreign pitcher, will join the opening game due to a thigh injury.

LG needs to watch Jang Hyun-sik, who was recruited through a free agent (FA) contract, suffered an injury in his right foot after the 2024 season.

Samsung also had to find alternative resources as Denny Reyes, the mainstay of the starting lineup, Kim Moo-shin (former Kim Yoon-soo), who had been in mind as a must-win group, and Kim Young-woong, a young slugger, left due to injuries.

After the exhibition game, each team will prepare for the last minute and start the long run starting with the regular season opener on the 22nd.