With every KBO game broadcast live on cable television and available for free streaming online for domestic viewers, and with improved technology breaking down disputed plays from multiple angles, umpires also work under heavier scrutiny than in the past.īefore this season, the KBO brass had said the league would conduct feasibility studies on expanded video review and that it would consider making the move by as early as 2015. The league's umpires, though, have been on the hot seat for most of this season with some high-profile missed calls.
Under the present KBO rules, umpires' decisions on safe-out and fair-foul calls are final and managers or coaches may not protest those calls. The instant replay coverage on home runs was introduced in 2009. Currently, the KBO umpires rely on video replay for disputed home run calls only. Responding to growing calls to address issues in refereeing, presidents of the teams in the country's top baseball league have agreed to expand video replay starting in the second half of the season, officials said on 8 July. The KBO went back to the 12-inning tie rule starting in 2009. But managers strongly opposed the change.
In 2008, the league briefly scrapped ties and forced teams to play until a winner was decided. In South Korean baseball, ties are called after 12 innings in the regular season and 15 innings in the playoffs. There will be a third change in four seasons to the tie rule in South Korean professional baseball. Starting in season 2013, each team plays 128 games in the regular season, reduced from 133 due to expansion to nine teams. The 2014 Korea Professional Baseball season is 33rd season in the history of the Korea Professional Baseball.
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