2024-03-15 06:11:39
MLB star Fernando Tatis Jr. enjoying various places in Korea
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dae-ho Lee = The San Diego Padres players arrived in Korea through Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 15th for the opening two-game series of the Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season to be held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 20th and 21st. Enjoy the city to your heart’s content and spend a leisurely time.
On baseball online communities such as ‘MLB Park’, eyewitness accounts of meeting San Diego players from all over Seoul are posted one following another.
The San Diego team arrived in Korea around 1:30 a.m. on this day and immediately moved to a luxury hotel in Yeouido, Seoul to rest.
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And following daylight, most of the players chose to feel the Seoul air instead of staying at the dorms.
In the early hours of the morning, Joe Musgrove, who was designated as the starting pitcher for the second game of the regular season once morest the Los Angeles Dodgers on the 21st, was captured by a fan taking a walk in Yeouido Park with his wife.
A fan who took a commemorative photo with Musgrove regretted it, saying, “I even shook his hand and wanted an autograph, but I didn’t have a pen (so I mightn’t get one).”
At around 1 p.m., there was also an eyewitness report that he met infielders Manny Machado and Sander Bohartz at the Hyundai Department Store in Yeouido, near the San Diego team’s dormitory.
Tatis Jr. eating dumpling soup at Gwangjang Market
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The one who enjoyed Seoul most actively was outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr.
Tatis Jr. left Yeouido and visited Gwanghwamun and Gwangjang Market, naturally mingling with Seoul citizens.
He also posted a scene of eating hotteok and dumpling soup at Gwangjang Market on his social networking service (SNS) Instagram.
For Korean MLB fans, ‘mandu’ is a symbolic food.
Tatis Jr.’s father, Fernando Tatis, is the first player in MLB history to hit ‘two grand slams in one inning’ from Chan-ho Park, the ‘Korean Express’ who played for the Dodgers in 1999.
The nickname ‘Hanmandu’ is just the initials of ‘two grand slam home runs in one inning.’
Tatis Jr. left a historic scene of eating dumplings in the country where Park Chan-ho was born.
Park Chan-ho, the first Korean big leaguer, will throw out the first pitch in the MLB opening game between San Diego and the Dodgers on the 20th.
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