NEW YORK (AP) — The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers will play Major League Baseball's first regular-season games in South Korea, opening next season in Seoul on March 20-21.
The Houston Astros and Colorado Rockies will play in Mexico City on April 27-28, MLB said Wednesday. The Padres and San Francisco Giants played the first regular-season games there this April 29-30.
한국의 중심으로 우뚝 서는 야구 🇰🇷
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 12, 2023
The #Padres 2024 season will begin with the first-ever regular season games in Korea at the Gocheok Sky Dome on March 20-21: https://t.co/NEzV0Bx0hc pic.twitter.com/yP7DwoEJUl
MLB will have three sets of international games next year. A two-game series in London on June 8-9 between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies was announced last month.
MLB also said the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays will play spring training games at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 9-10.
The international opener will be MLB's ninth, following 1999 in Monterrey, Mexico; 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2019 in Tokyo; 2001 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and 2014 in Sydney.
The Padres posted a video on Twitter featuring Ha-Seong Kim talking about the rare opportunity to play an MLB game in his home country.
This is going to be an extra special homecoming for Ha-Seong Kim 🥹 pic.twitter.com/mSFNIjnH6f
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 12, 2023
