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Starting pitching carries Landers to KBO's best record in early going

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- Just how important is starting pitching to a team's success?Given the way their season has gone so far, the SSG Landers would respond, "Very important."The Landers have jumped out to a 15-2 rec
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Vocal cheering to be allowed again at KBO games

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 22 (Yonhap) -- Starting Friday evening, fans attending South Korean professional baseball games will be able to party like it's 2019 again.The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Friday that the two-year ban on v
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Padres' Kim Ha-seong hits 1st home run of season

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- San Diego Padres' South Korean infielder Kim Ha-seong has gone deep for the first time this season.Kim smacked a solo home run against the Cincinnati Reds in the bottom of the seventh inning at Petco Park
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Blue Jays' Ryu Hyun-jin suffers minor injury, likely to miss 2-3 starts

SEOUL, April 20 (Yonhap) -- The Toronto Blue Jays' South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin, who has been on the 10-day injured list (IL) with left forearm inflammation, is suffering from a minor injury and expected to miss two or three possible starts.
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Rays' Choi Ji-man leading S. Korean MLB contingent with hot early streak

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- Tampa Bay Rays' first baseman Choi Ji-man has been the hottest South Korean player in the early days of the new major league season, coupling his patented on-base skills with power to put up gaudy numbers.
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KBO to ask sports ministry to allow vocal cheering at stadiums

SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's professional baseball league said Tuesday it will ask the sports ministry to lift the ban on cheering at ballparks as part of eased coronavirus restrictions, on the grounds that the activity poses few inf
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2nd-generation KBO star breaks father's record, closes in on more milestones

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- Lee Jung-hoo is going where few others have gone before in South Korean baseball, breaking records, including one held by his father, along the way.And now Lee is on the verge of becoming the career batting av
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(News Focus) Numbers show Ryu Hyun-jin's trouble limiting hard contact, generating whiffs

(News Focus) MLB pitcher-performance (News Focus) Numbers show Ryu Hyun-jin's trouble limiting hard contact, generating whiffsBy Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- In 2020, the Toronto Blue Jay
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Blue Jays' Ryu Hyun-jin placed on 10-day injured list

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- The Toronto Blue Jays have placed their South Korean starter Ryu Hyun-jin on the 10-day injured list (IL) with left forearm inflammation.The Blue Jays made the move before hosting the Oakland Athletics for the
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Blue Jays' Ryu Hyun-jin shaky for 2nd straight outing, dealing with sore arm

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) -- Early season woes continued for the Toronto Blue Jays' South Korean starter Ryu Hyun-jin, with an extra day's rest not providing any relief for the struggling veteran.Ryu was touched up for five runs o
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KBO's ERA leader also among tough-luck pitchers

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- Three starts into the 2022 season, Drew Rucinski of the NC Dinos leads the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) with a miniscule 0.45 ERA. Remarkably, the right-hander has not yet walked a batter while striking o
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KBO clubs struggling at gates in early weeks of new season

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- When former Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig launched his first grand slam for his new South Korean team Kiwoom Heroes on Tuesday, only 774 people were in attendance. Just a handful of people were in the v
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(LEAD) Rays' Choi Ji-man homers for 2nd straight day

(ATTN: ADDS 3rd photo, details in paras 4-5)By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- Tampa Bay Rays' Choi Ji-man has homered for the second straight day, keeping his bat scorching hot and extending his hitting streak to five games.The South Korea
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Blue Jays' Ryu Hyun-jin likely to make next start on extra rest

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- Toronto Blue Jays' South Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin will likely make his next start on extra rest, with the club mulling a six-man rotation in the midst of a jam-packed early season schedule.Before th
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Rays' Choi Ji-man homers for 2nd straight day

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- Tampa Bay Rays' Choi Ji-man has homered for the second straight day, keeping his bat scorching hot and extending his hitting streak to five games.The South Korean first baseman smoked a solo home run off O
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Ryu Hyun-jin looks to bounce back as Blue Jays' rotation struggles early

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- The five-man starting rotation for the Toronto Blue Jays has completed its first turn of the season, with only one of them having pitched well enough to earn a victory.The team's South Korean starter Ryu H
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(LEAD) Rays' Choi Ji-man blasts 1st homer of season, extends hitting streak to 4

(ATTN: ADDS detalis, final score, 3rd photo)By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- Choi Ji-man of the Tampa Bay Rays has gone deep for the first time this season, with the homer also extending his hitting streak to four games.Choi smacked a three-r
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Rays' Choi Ji-man blasts 1st homer of season, extends hitting streak to 4

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- Choi Ji-man of the Tampa Bay Rays has gone deep for the first time this season, with the homer also extending his hitting streak to four games.Choi smacked a three-run homer against the Oakland Athletics in th
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Samsung Lions counting on returning veterans to lead offensive turnaround

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 12 (Yonhap) -- While losing four straight games last week, the Samsung Lions failed to get a run across the plate for 26 consecutive innings. The futility streak ended Sunday, and the Lions are hoping veterans back in action
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KBO rookies go from preseason heroes to early regular season zeroes

By Yoo Jee-hoSEOUL, April 12 (Yonhap) -- One led the preseason in batting average. The other hit more home runs than anyone in those exhibition games in March. But in the early goings of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) regular season, neither h