The 2022 KBO League season was the 41st season in the history of the

KBO League The KBO League (), officially the Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League, is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. The Kia Tigers ar ...

. The regular season began on April 2 and ended on October 11. A postseason then followed, culminating with the championship

Korean Series The Korean Series is the final championship series of the KBO League. It has been held since the KBO League's first season in and is the final series of the post-season play-offs. From to 2013, the winner of the Korean Series went on to play in ...

KT Wiz KT Wiz ( ko, KT 위즈) are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Suwon. They are a member of the KBO League. Their home stadium is Suwon Baseball Stadium in Suwon. History On 11 January 2013, the Korea Baseball Organization offi ...

entered the season as defending champions.

Season format

No changes were made to the league's makeup from the prior season, with the same 10 teams competing. Each team is scheduled to play 144 games, via facing every other team 16 times. The league announced some operational changes: * If two teams are tied for the final playoff spot (5th place), the teams will play a single-game tiebreaker. ** If more than two teams are tied for the final playoff spot, mathematical tiebreakers will be used. * The number of replay review officials used by the league was increased from three to five (one per game). * Games will only be canceled (such as due to COVID-19 effects) if a team is unable to dress 28 players. Additionally, some temporary measures used during the prior season, such as not playing

extra innings Extra innings is the extension of a baseball or softball game in order to break a tie. Ordinarily, a baseball game consists of nine regulation innings (in softball and high school baseball games there are typically seven innings; in Little Lea ...

, were discontinued.

Standings

''Last updated October 12, 2022'' Note: Regular-season games are limited to 12 innings; tie results are ignored by the league when computing

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and

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Postseason

Wild Card

The series started with a 1–0 advantage for the fourth-placed team.

Semi-playoff

Playoff

Korean Series

References

External links

* (in Korean) * (in English) {{KBO League KBO League seasons KBO League season KBO League season