Pitch clock in operation at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul throughout a Korea Baseball Group preseason sport between the Kia Tigers and the Doosan Bears, March 1. Yonhap
The Korean baseball league introduced Friday it can take two seconds off the pitch clock subsequent season, in a continued try to hurry up the sport.
The Korea Baseball Group (KBO) mentioned beginning within the new season, pitchers should begin their supply inside 18 seconds with the bases empty and 23 seconds with runners on.
Pitchers had 20 seconds to work with when the bases have been empty and 25 seconds with at the least a person aboard in 2025, the primary season with the pitch clock in operation.
The pitch clock had the specified impact of lowering the sport time. In 2025, a nine-inning sport took three hours and two minutes, eight minutes quicker than 2024 and the bottom mark since 2000.
The KBO has not gone underneath three hours in common sport time since 1998.
Main League Baseball launched the pitch clock in 2023. It first gave pitchers 15 seconds with the bases empty and 20 seconds with runners on. The timer was decreased to 18 seconds with runners on base beginning in 2024.
