The Korea Baseball Organization’s eight teams will open the season with four games on April 4. In all, each Korean team will play 133 games this year, an increase of seven games per club over their 126-game slates in 2008. All eight teams are returning from last season, although a cloud continues to hang over the former Woori Heroes. The Heroes replaced the Hyundai Unicorns on the league roster last year, but the franchise was a mess from Day 1 and the sponsoring Woori Tobacco Company severed their ties in midseason after failing to pay league fees.
In 2009, playoff series are reverting to a best-of-5 format after seven-game sets in 2008; and games will be halted after 12 innings, ending the so-called “limitless overtime rule” under which teams played until there was a winner, regardless of duration of the game.
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