Japan-based South Korean baseball player Lee Dae-ho has been approached by the management company of uber-agent Scott Boras, officials said Thursday, hinting that the slugger could soon sign with a big league club. Lee Cha-ho, a sports agent and an older brother of the Orix Buffaloes player in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), told Yonhap News Agency that Al Chun, the director of Asian operati...

The Samsung Lions have become the first club to win the South Korean baseball pennant in three consecutive seasons. The Lions clinched first place in the 2013 regular season in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) with a 9-2 win on the road over the Lotte Giants in Busan Wednesday night. The win improved the Lions' record to 75 wins, 50 losses and two ties, with one game remaining in 2013. The...

PITTSBURGH -- Choo Shin-soo of the Cincinnati Reds went 1-for-3 with a solo home run in the team's 6-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League (NL) Wild Card Game here on Tuesday. Choo belted a solo shot off Pirates reliever Tony Watson in the top of the eighth in his first career Major League Baseball playoff game, but it wasn't nearly enough for the Reds, who bowed out in the one...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ― The Texas Rangers had to keep winning to keep playing. After seven wins in a row, they have to do it one more time to get into the playoffs. Craig Gentry had a key two-run single, Geovany Soto had a tiebreaking RBI double and a solo homer, and the Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-2 Sunday to force a one-game tiebreaker for the second AL wild-card spot. “They showed ...

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers lost his final regular season start on Sunday, going just four innings against the Colorado Rockies for his shortest outing of 2013. At Dodger Stadium, Ryu gave up two earned runs on eight hits and a walk against the Rockies, as Colorado took the game 2-1. Scott Van Slyke pinch-hit for Ryu in the bottom of the fourth with the Dodgers trailing 2-0. The Sou...

CINCINNATI (AP) ― Hundreds of Pirates fans stood, twirled their towels and chanted “Let’s Go Bucs!” as Jay Bruce hit a grounder for the final out, setting up a playoff game in Pittsburgh. Baseball, this time. Neil Walker hit two of Pittsburgh’s six homers ― its biggest power surge in six years ― and the Pirates clinched home-field advantage for the NL’s wild card playoff game by beating the Cin...

The NC Dinos on Wednesday joined the country’s top baseball league in demanding their home city change the site for the team’s new stadium, citing accessibility problems with the city’s original choice. The Dinos, an expansion Korea Baseball Organization club, said in a press release that they will formally ask Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, to pick a different location for the team’s new ...

The nation’s top baseball league said on Tuesday it will formally demand the home city of an expansion ball club to choose a more viable site to build a new stadium, citing lack of transparency in the original selection. The Korea Baseball Organization urged the city of Changwon in South Gyeongsang Province to choose a new location for a new ballpark for the NC Dinos. The league and the city hav...