How to watch MLB Seoul Series 2024: Dodgers vs. Padres - ESPN

The 2024 MLB season will get underway on Wednesday with the Seoul Series — the first regular-season MLB games played in South Korea.

The Seoul Series will feature a two-game set between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. All eyes will be on Shohei Ohtani as he makes his official Dodgers debut against Manny Machado and the Padres. Here's everything you need to know:

How can I watch the Seoul Series?

Both games will be broadcast on ESPN. The ESPN telecasts will be subject to local blackout restrictions in the Los Angeles and San Diego markets.

Here is the series schedule:

Wednesday

Dodgers vs. Padres, 6 a.m. ET (coverage begins at 5:30 a.m. ET)

Thursday

Dodgers vs. Padres, 6 a.m. ET (coverage begins at 5:30 a.m. ET)

Both games will have Spanish broadcasts that begin at 6 a.m. ET on ESPN Deportes.

Who will be pitching?

The Shohei Ohtani era begins for the Dodgers as Los Angeles faces the San Diego Padres in the first regular-season games of the 2024 MLB season.

Wed., March 20 at 6:05 a.m. ET
Thu., March 21 at 6:05 a.m. ET

While there's a lot of excitement about Ohtani's debut after he signed a record 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers this offseason, he won't be on the mound. Ohtani will not pitch in 2024 — his role will primarily be as a designated hitter, though there's a chance he could play the field this season — as he recovers from elbow surgery he underwent last September.

Los Angeles also added Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto this winter, and both are expected to start during the Seoul Series. Glasnow will start Wednesday's game against Yu Darvish of the Padres. Yamamoto will face Joe Musgrove in Thursday's contest. The Dodgers acquired Glasnow in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and