A pitcher whose career stalled after one setback and the first love who now holds his comeback in her hands have taken their first steps together at the table. Your Ground has shared a closer look at its script reading, with Han Hyo-joo and Gong Myoung leading the cast of the new MBC baseball romance.
The reading brought the full ensemble together for the first time, giving a clear picture of how the comeback story will be played. Director Lee Sang-yeob attended alongside Han Hyo-joo, Gong Myoung, Sung Joon, Kim Shin-rok and Jo Han-chul, with Hong Woo-jin, Kim Joong-gi, Kim Young-sung, Jo Eun-sol and Jung Soon-won also taking part.
Your Ground is a romance about baseball player Kang Hae-hwan, whose career comes to a halt after a single setback. After meeting former lawyer-turned-agent Seo Hee-seung, he begins his journey to return to the field, and that meeting carries a history neither of them can ignore.
Han Hyo-joo plays Seo Hee-seung, a former ace lawyer at a big law firm who becomes a professional baseball agent. At the reading, she brought out the sharp and ambitious side of a lawyer who will not allow a single lost case, a character who even rejects an offer to become her firm's youngest team leader to step into the unfamiliar world of professional baseball.
Gong Myoung transforms into Kang Hae-hwan, a right-handed pitcher for the Miracles who was once praised as a next-generation ace. His reading traced the player's swing from confident ace to a man carrying deep inner wounds, and it set up the romance that begins when he reunites with his first love Seo Hee-seung after 11 years.
Sung Joon plays Yoon Yi-seok, Kang Hae-hwan's rival and a fellow pitcher for the Miracles. Yoon Yi-seok never managed to beat Kang Hae-hwan, yet he eventually rose to become the team's ace once his rival left the mound, and Sung Joon's reading leaned into that rivalry and the complicated emotions underneath it.
Kim Shin-rok takes on the role of Dong Chi-young, a super agent with significant influence in the world of professional baseball. She impressed at the reading with the charisma Dong Chi-young brings to negotiations between clubs and players, and the character will also work hard for Kang Hae-hwan's successful return.
Watch the script reading video here:
The video shows the cast working through their first scenes together as an ensemble, with the pitchers' rivalry and the leads' reunion already taking shape. Lee Sang-yeob, who previously directed the Yumi's Cells series and My Youth, is directing the series, with Hwang Hae-yeon writing the script.
The production team shared, "From the first script reading, the actors became a perfect ensemble like a team that has worked together for a long time. Thanks to the actors' passionate acting, the set was continuously overflowing with lively energy." The team added that the response raised anticipation for Your Ground as a drama that goes beyond baseball to tell the story of people who stand back up from the ground.
That framing puts the comeback at the center of the series, with the romance growing out of the work Seo Hee-seung and Kang Hae-hwan have to do together. Her undefeated record in the courtroom now meets a sport she has to learn from the inside, while his road back runs through the agent he loved more than a decade earlier.
Your Ground is slated to premiere in December in MBC's Friday-Saturday slot. No North American streaming platform has been announced for the series.
