 Lotte Swept by KIA in Rain Shortened Series 10 weeks 3 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Lotte Giants came back to earth after a terrific 5-0 start to the season, losing both games to KIA to drop to second in the standings after the first full weekend of games to the young season.
Sohn Ah-seop continued his torrid start to the season with his first homerun, a solo shot in the sixth, and also had two more hits but it wasn't enough as the Giants fell 3-1 to KIA on Sunday. Shane Youman (1-1) lost in the pitching battle of former major leaguers as Seo Jae-... |
 Interview: Shane Youman Talks About the 2013 Lotte Giants 11 weeks 5 days ago
 BUSAN, South Korea -- Last year was a turbulent one for the Lotte Giants. They finished fourth in the league with a 66-63-6 record, which are good stats for fourth place, but fans won’t soon forget their disappointment in the playoffs against SK. The Giants lost the...
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 Lotte, Samsung Tie 0-0 13 weeks 5 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- Song Seung-joon pitched five innings of four hit ball, and three Lotte relievers shut down the Samsung offense as the Giants tied Samsung 0-0 Friday afternoon.
Cho Seung-hwan led Lotte with two hits, as Lotte hitters struggled to also hit the ball combining for seven hits off four Samsung pitchers.
Exhibition games do not go into extra innings to decide a winner.
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 NC Dinos Struggle in their Opening Exhibition Game 14 weeks 4 days ago
CHANGWON, South Korea -- The NC Dinos played their first exhibition game in the KBO in team's history, but fell 6-1 to Nexen at home Saturday afternoon.
Nexen jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the second before adding four more in the fourth to take a commanding 6-0 lead. NC managed to get on the scoreboard in the sixth to cut the lead to 6-1. NC was held to four hits in the game while also committing three errors.
Adam Wilk (0-1) took the loss for NC while Andy Van Hekken (1-0)... |
 Lotte Releases Exhibition Schedule 20 weeks 4 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Lotte Giants will begin their exhibition season March 9th at home with a two game series with SK. All exhibition games will begin at 1 p.m. and will only last nine innings regardless of a tie.
2013 Lotte Home Exhibition Schedule
Saturday, March 9 - SK
Sunday, March 10 - SK
Tuesday, March 12 - Nexen
Wednesday, March 13 - Nexen
Thursday, March 14 - Samsung
Friday, March 15 - Samsung
Tuesday,... |
 Giants Add Veteran Slugger Jang 29 weeks 3 hours ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Lotte Giants have added veteran slugger Jang Sung-ho in a trade with Hanwha yesterday. They acquired the 35-year-old slugger in exchange for pitcher Song Chang-hyun, 23, a third-round pick in the 2013 season draft.
Last season with the Eagles, he hit .263 with 52 RBI, 112 hits and nine homers. He has a career .297 batting percentage with 216 homers, 2,007 hits and 1,000 RBI.
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 Lotte Manager Yang Seung-ho Resigns 33 weeks 1 day ago
 BUSAN, South Korea -- Lotte manager Yang Seung-ho handed in his resignation today, after two years at the helm of the Giants. The 52-year-old Yang resigns just a week after Lotte's latest failure to advance to the finals on the 22nd in the Korean... |
 KBO Playoffs: Doosan Stays Alive With Game Three Win 35 weeks 6 days ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- The Doosan Bears managed to avoid a first round sweep with a 7-2 win over Lotte in Game 3 of the best-of-five first round series.
Choi Joon-suk's two-run homerun in the first inning got Doosan off to a quick start, as the Bears chased Lotte starter Ryan Sadowski after only facing seven batters. After Lotte closed the gap to one run with a two-run second inning, Doosan exploded for four runs in the seventh to put the game out of reach.
Game 4 is... |
 Tharp On: Baseball 36 weeks 20 hours ago
 BUSAN, South Korea -- Ah, fall in Busan. Is there any better time of the year? The brutal, sweaty summer—with its endless volley of typhoons—sputters and dies, and cool air and clear skies prevail. BIFF comes to town... |
 Seven baseball fields to be built in Gijang 39 weeks 1 day ago
BUSAN, South Korea -- Busan Metropolitan City, Gijang-gun County and Hyundai Motor Company signed agreement on establishing a ‘Baseball Field of Dreams’ at Dongbaek-ri, Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun. The aim is to promote baseball in Busan City.
Gijang-gun is providing the site for the baseball fields (a 176,515㎡ area of land), and Hyundai Motor Company will build four baseball fields there by 2014, with subsidiary facilities to be completed by 2015, and will... |
