Ex-MLB All-Star Ryu Hyun-jin to start crucial KBO postseason game

Hanwha Eagles left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin will make his first Korean postseason start in 18 years this week, and it will be a pivotal game for his team coming off a dispiriting loss at home. Ryu will start Game 3 of the second round in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason against the Samsung Lions at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in the southeastern city of Daegu. The best-of-five series is knotted at 1-1. The Eagles took the opener 9-8 on Saturday but dropped the second game 7-3 the following day. In those two games, the Eagles' top two starters, Cody Ponce and Ryan Weiss, both got knocked around hard. They gave up a combined 11 runs on 16 hits in 10 innings, far from what had been expected from the KBO's best one-two rotation punch in the regular season. Ryu will now try to cool off those hot Lions bats and put his team a win away from reaching their first Korean Series since 2006, his rookie season. Ryu, 38, last pitched in a KBO postseason game in 2007. The Eagles missed the playoffs from 2008 to 2012, and Ryu left for Major League Baseball before the 2013 camWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times