Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers suffered his first loss in Major League Baseball (MLB) in two months, as the Dodgers fell to the Miami Marlins 6-2 here on Monday.At Marlins Park, Ryu gave up three runs on six hits and two walks in 7 1/3 innings to drop to 12-4 in his first big league season. The Dodgers lost consecutive games for the first time since June 20-21.The South Korean left-hander struck out five, but his ERA rose from 2.91 to 2.95. His previous defeat had come against the New Y

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― Clayton Kershaw pitched eight dominant innings and the seemingly unstoppable Los Angeles Dodgers won their 10th straight Saturday night, beating Philadelphia 5-0 to keep the Phillies scoreless in two games under new manager Ryne Sandberg.Juan Uribe hit a three-run homer, Kershaw had an RBI double and the Dodgers improved to 25-3 after the All-Star break. They have won 19 of their last 20 road games and are 42-8 overall since June 22.Meanwhile, the skidding Phillies have yet t

ST. PETERSBURG (AP) ― Jason Bourgeois came up in the right place at the right time Wednesday night, with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning for the Tampa Bay Rays, who needed a win to break a six-game losing streak.The 31-year-old backup outfielder delivered his first hit for the Rays, an RBI single to cap a two-run rally that lifted Tampa Bay over the Seattle Mariners 5-4.“No outs, bases loaded, that’s like a hitter’s dream to be in that situation with the game on the line,” sai

Cho Dong-chan, an infielder for Samsung Lions in South Korea’s top baseball league, will miss the rest of the season due to a left knee injury, local media reported Wednesday.According to Yonhap News, Cho was diagnosed with a fractured left knee and partial damage to the ligament earlier in the day at Saemyung Hospital in Daegu. Doctors expect the treatment to take six weeks, which will force the 30-year-old to miss the remainder of the regular season. Cho sustained the injury after he collided

South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers earned his team-leading 11th win of the season here on Thursday, keeping the St. Louis Cardinals at bay over seven strong innings in the Dodgers' 5-1 victory.The left-hander allowed one unearned run on five singles and struck out seven at Busch Stadium to improve to 11-3 in his rookie Major League Baseball (MLB) season. His winning percentage of .786 is the highest by a rookie pitcher in Dodgers' history.He lowered his ERA from 3.15 to

In one of the most anticipated series in the second half of the 2013 Korea Baseball Organization season, the Doosan Bears swept the Nexen Heroes in their two-game set to overtake third place.At their home at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, the Bears squeezed past the Heroes 5-4 on Tuesday and then beat them 11-7 on Wednesday to rise to third in the standings, 1 1/2 games ahead of the Heroes.The two wins improved the Bears’ post-All-Star break record to 9-5, the second-best mark in the KBO.On July 1, th

New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case _ the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago.Ryan Braun's 65-game suspension last month and previous penalties bring to 18 the total number of players sanctioned for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic in