San Diego Padres fans heading to Korea

next week the pond R will take on the Dodgers in Soul South Korea but the friar won't be alone as fans will be leaving from San Diego heading there to cheer them on h two of those fans are Agnes tumbaga and her partner JC both have been Padre's fans for decades having grown up in San Diego they've been to countless games at pedco Park and at other stadiums for them it's more than just following a team it's the glue that brings everyone together people ask me like why do you like B and I'm like i

t just brings a lot of people together like no matter what at the end of the day and what better way to cheer on the Padre's than to do it more than 6,000 miles away in Soul South Korea as the Padre's take on the Dodgers next week it's it's an awesome feeling like it's it's really cool just to see how how much the the fan base has grown and being able to see those jerseys everywhere you go now um as opposed to I don't know 20 years ago even though they don't have tickets to the game they just wa

nt to be there to take it all in it's like going on a whim and like just having fun with it hopefully we'll have like we'll see like really cool billboards with all the all the international players and and yeah just we're just having fun with it aside from representing the brown and gold for them it's also about learning about a different culture getting a glimpse at the Home Country of one of their favorite players hang Kim it's going to be really cool just to be able to experience this especi

ally in another country I mean baseball's been growing massively internationally the past like decade or so um and just being able to experience that somewhere else that's not where you're used to is going to be just a really cool experience and of course we had to ask who do you think is going to win Padre to the Dodgers go to say Padres I mean we'll stay loyal Padres Marie Cornell ABC 10 News the two game series the sole series is March 20th and 21st these will be the first ever regular season

games to be played in Korea the frier faithful who want to watch here at home will need to get up really early both games start just after 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time U darish will be the starting pitcher for game one and Joe Musgrove will start game two