Choo Shin-soo of the Texas Rangers has gone deep for the sixth time this season, while also extending his on-base streak to a dozen games.Batting leadoff and playing right field, Choo went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs against the Tampa Bay Rays at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, on Monday (local time). Despite Choo's heroics at the plate, the Rangers lost 10-8. Choo is batting .255 for the season. Choo Shin-soo of the Texas Rangers (Yonhap)Choo's sixth home run of 2017 was a solo

A former big league catcher will likely get more action behind the home plate for his South Korean club after spending most of the season at first base.The Hanwha Eagles in the Korea Baseball Organization said Monday that Wilin Rosario, formerly of the Colorado Rockies, will get some starts as catcher the rest of the season. For the time being, he will be the designated catcher for his fellow Dominican starter, Alexi Ogando. In this file photo taken on May 21, 2017, Wilin Rosario of the Hanwha E

Oh Seung-hwan of the St. Louis Cardinals has earned his 30th career save in Major League Baseball. Oh threw a scoreless ninth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver on Saturday (local time), preserving the Cards' 3-0 victory. The right-hander gave up a hit but collected two strikeouts to pick up his 11th save of the season.Oh, who made his big league debut last year, had 19 saves last season.  In this photo taken by the Associated Press on May 23, 2017, St. Louis Cardinals

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers has earned his first major league save after throwing four scoreless innings.The South Korean southpaw relieved starter Kenta Maeda in the top of the sixth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday (local time), with the Dodgers leading 6-3. It was his first relief appearance in his major league career and also his first outing since his most recent start on May 18. (Yonhap)Ryu worked around a two-out single by Kol

NC Dinos' right-hander Lim Chang-min has been the steadiest closer in South Korean baseball this year, but don't bother asking him how he's getting it done.In 21 appearances, Lim has 14 saves to lead the Korea Baseball Organization. The 31-year-old also boasts a 1.17 ERA, second only to Kim Jae-yoon of the KT Wiz, who has yet to give up an earned run in 12 2/3 innings. In this file photo taken on March 31, 2017, Lim Chang-min (R), closer for the NC Dinos, high-fives his catcher Kim Tae-gun after

The South Korean baseball club Hanwha Eagles on Tuesday fired their manager Kim Sung-keun.The Korea Baseball Organization  dismissed the 74-year-old bench boss prior to the Eagles' home game against the Kia Tigers in Daejeon, some 160 kilometers south of Seoul. (Yonhap)Kim has been managing the Eagles since the 2015 season, taking over a perennial doormat. They missed the postseason in Kim's first two seasons, finishing sixth in 2015 and then seventh last year.Before Tuesday's game, the Eagles w

Four players and two coaches from two clubs in the Korea Baseball Organization were disciplined Tuesday for their roles in a bench-clearing brawl this past weekend.The KBO slapped the Samsung Lions pitcher Yun Sung-hwan with a six-game ban, and also banned Samsung coaches Kim Jae-gul and Kang Bong-kyu five games each. The two coaches were each fined 3 million won ($2,670). Another Samsung pitcher, Zach Petrick, was fined 2 million won. Players and coaches from the Samsung Lions (in blue) and the

They're still the worst team in South Korean baseball by a substantial margin, but the Samsung Lions are finally showing some signs of life.They went 5-1 last week, by far their best stretch of the 2017 Korea Baseball Organization season. That they're still at 12-29-2 (wins-losses-ties), 10th in the 10-team league and five games behind the ninth-place Hanwha Eagles, illustrates how horrendous their start was. Lee Seung-yuop of the Samsung Lions rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run agai

The nation's top baseball league said Monday it will review a bench-clearing brawl that led to the ejection of four players over the weekend.The Korea Baseball Organization said it will convene a disciplinary committee meeting Tuesday to discuss punishment for players involved in Sunday's incident between the Samsung Lions and the Hanwha Eagles at Hanwha Life Eagles Park in Daejeon. Players and coaches from the Samsung Lions (in blue) and the Hanwha Eagles are tangled up after Samsung starter Yu

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers has picked up his second win of the season, helping his own cause at the plate in the process.The South Korean left-hander kept the Miami Marlins to two runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings at Dodger Stadium on Thursday (local time), improving to 2-5 for the season. He also lowered his ERA from 4.99 to 4.75, while striking out three and walking one. The Dodgers won 7-2.Ryu also hit a double and scored a run himself in the Dodgers' three-run second inning.Ry

Beleaguered major league infielder Kang Jung-ho on Thursday lost his appeal of an earlier drunk driving sentence, a development that puts his playing career in jeopardy.The Seoul Central District Court rejected Kang's appeal and upheld an eight-month sentence from March, which was suspended for two years, for leaving the scene of a drunk driving accident in Seoul last December.The decision casts Kang's future in the big leagues into further doubt. The 30-year-old remains without a work permit to

GWANGJU -- Twin killings have been killing the LG Twins so far in this Korea Baseball Organization KBO season.The Twins traveled down to Gwangju, some 330 kilometers from their home in Seoul, to take on the first-place Kia Tigers in a three-game series starting Tuesday, with hopes of grabbing the top spot in the standings by the end of the showdown. The Twins were trailing the Tigers by 1.5 games in second place.In this file photo taken on May 7, 2017, players of the LG Twins celebrate a run dur

The Nexen Heroes are nothing if not patient with their players. And they're more than willing to wait on their slumping left-hander Andy Van Hekken to turn things around.The 36-year-old American pitcher is in his sixth Korea Baseball Organization season with the Heroes, but this has so far been his worst in South Korea.In six starts, Van Hekken is 2-3 with a 4.59 ERA across 33 1/3 innings -- this by the same pitcher who carried a career 3.52 ERA with a 65-35 record in the KBO heading into 2017.A

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers got rocked by the Colorado Rockies in his return from the disabled list.Ryu was touched for 10 runs -- five of them unearned -- on eight hits and six walks in four innings at Coors Field in Denver on Thursday (local time). The South Korean left-hander left the game with the Dodgers down 10-0. (Yonhap)The 10 totals runs and six walks issued were both single-game highs for Ryu in his major league career. Ryu dropped to 1-5 on the season, and his ERA rose fro

Texas Rangers' outfielder Choo Shin-soo apparently likes the view from the top of the order.Batting leadoff against the San Diego Padres at home in Arlington on Wednesday (local time), Choo went 3-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and a run scored, helping the Rangers to a 4-3 victory.It was Choo's second straight game as the leadoff man. A day earlier, Choo was 1-for-2 with two walks and also got hit by a pitch, while scoring twice. In this Associated Press photo, Choo Shin-soo of the Texas Rangers hit