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Column: Baseball is back — in the middle of the night and half a world away. But for those longing for MLB’s return, will the Korean Baseball Organization cut it?

The first televised Korean Baseball Organization game is in the books, giving America its long-awaited baseball fix.

If you slept through it and plan to watch the re-airing Tuesday on ESPN2, I won’t spoil it by revealing the result of the season opener between the Samsung Lions and the NC Dinos.

But, spoiler alert, here are the two highlights: Sung-Bum Na hit a home run for the NC Dinos that perplexed ESPN announcer Karl Ravech because the right fielder didn’t react to it and there were no fans in the stands to either cheer or boo. And a kid threw out the first pitch while inside a plastic bubble, reminding Koreans to socially distance while reminding Americans of the John Travolta made-for-TV movie, not to mention the classic bubble boy episode of “Seinfeld.