This season's baseball exhibition games kicked off at five stadiums across the country. Daejeon Stadium, which hosted the game between Hanwha and Samsung, which saw the return of Ryu Hyun-jin, sold out all 12,000 tickets, marking the first home stadium sellout in nine years for an exhibition game, while the rest of the stadiums saw more fans than usual, with 7,236 fans attending, 10 times more than the average for the opening day of an exhibition game last year.