Former Korean baseball MVP Kim Do-yeong has undergone surgery to repair a broken nose, his club announced Thursday, as his status for the upcoming Asian Games hangs in the balance. The Kia Tigers of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Kim had his operation late Wednesday night, hours after suffering the injury on an ill-fated bunt attempt during a game against the NC Dinos at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in the southwestern city of Gwangju. After the ball ricocheted off his bat and struck his face, Kim started bleeding immediately, prompting a team trainer to run out of the dugout and cover the player's face with a towel. Kim was soon removed from the game for a pinch hitter. The Tigers said Kim will be released from the hospital Friday, and they will keep monitoring his recovery before setting a timetable for his return. A team official said the injury is not considered serious, and Kim will remain on the active roster for now. Kim, 22, is in the midst of a bounceback season after appearing in just 30 games in 2025 due to multiple hamstring injuries. Kim has played in all 122 game

Korean Japanese baseball legend Jang Hun, the all-time hits leader in Japanese professional baseball history, has died at 86. The Golden Players Club, an exclusive body honoring elite Japanese baseball players, announced Jang passed away Wednesday morning at a hospital in Tokyo. Born in Hiroshima to Korean parents in 1940, Jang played for 23 seasons in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) from 1959 to 1981. He still holds the league's record with 3,085 career hits and remains the only player in NPB history with over 3,000 hits. Jang, whose Japanese name was Isao Harimoto, also launched 504 home runs and drove in 1,676 runs to rank seventh and fourth on the all-time list, respectively. His lifetime batting average of .319 put him in third place. He won seven Pacific League batting titles, one league MVP award and the 1959 Pacific League Rookie of the Year award. He earned 18 All-Star selections. Jang held Korean citizenship throughout his career but said in a media interview in December 2024 that he had received Japanese citizenship several years ago. The former outfielder served as a spe

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