The nation’s top baseball competition will break for 16 days next month while its leading players represent the country at the Asian Games at home, an official with the league said Monday.

The Korea Baseball Organization will be on hiatus from Sept. 15-30, and will resume its regular season on Oct. 1, the official said.

The Asian Games will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in Incheon, a metropolitan city just west of Seoul.

Baseball is no longer an Olympic sport but is still played at the Asian Games. South Korea is the reigning Asiad champ and its 24-man roster for this year’s Games includes 23 KBO players. (Yonhap)