‘It Is High, It Is Far, It Is Gone — All the Way to South Korea’

Dodgers, Padres due in the Land of the Morning Calm, which won’t be so calm once the first pitch is thrown.

AP/Lee Jin-man
Supporters of the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani hold signs as they wait for the baseball team's arrival at Incheon International Airport, March 15, 2024, at Incheon, South Korea. AP/Lee Jin-man

SEOUL — ‘It is high, it is far, it is gone — all the way to Seoul, Korea.” Forgive my borrowing the trademark call of John Sterling of the Yankees, but Major League Baseball is arriving in South Korea for the first time in the form of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, to the delight of some of the world’s most fanatic baseball fans. 

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