Kiwoom Heroes Jang Jae-young broke the record for the most strikeouts in a single game in his personal career. Jang Jae-young started the game against Hanwha Eagles in the ‘2023 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League’ held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 25th and recorded 5 hits, 1 walk, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts …
(Fukuoka = Yonhap) By Lee Dae-ho = Australia has won the men’s and women’s 400-meter freestyle relay at the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships. The Australian women were the first to claim gold. The Australian team of Molly O’Callaghan, Shana Jack, Meg Harrison and Emma McKeon swam a world record time of 3:27.96 to win …
(SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Choi Ji-Man, 32, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was stuck in the platoon system, a strategy that organizes the starting batting order based on pitcher type, and was held out of the lineup for a second straight day. Choi missed the visiting Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim’s 2023 Major League Baseball …
(SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Kim Ha-seong, 27, of the San Diego Padres, didn’t get a hit, but he did his job as a top-of-the-order hitter by drawing two walks. Kim went 0-for-2 with a walk and two strikeouts while batting first and second against the visiting Detroit Tigers in game two of the 2023 …
(Yonhap) – Ailing American professional baseball slugger Aaron Judge (New York Yankees) has raised the possibility of a late-season return. Jersey threw live batting for the first time since suffering a toe injury at Yankee Stadium in New York on Thursday (July 24), local media reported. Live batting is an actual batting practice in which …
(AP) – Chinese No. 26 Chin Wen Chung has won her first Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour singles title. Chung defeated home-court favorite Jasmine Paolini, ranked 52nd (Italy), 2-1 (6-4 1-6 6-1) in the singles final on the final day of the WTA Tour 34 Palermo Ladies Open (total prize money: €225,480) in Palermo, Italy, …
The number of tourists visiting China’s Changbaishan (White Mountains) has surpassed one million this year. The People’s Daily reported today (Feb. 22) that the cumulative number of tourists to the Changbaishan Scenic Area (tourism zone) in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture of the Yunnan People’s Autonomous Region has reached 1.07 million so far this year. Changbaishan’s one …
The U.S. Navy has commissioned its newest warship in Sydney, Australia, Reuters and others report. The U.S. Navy held a commissioning ceremony for the Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Canberra at the Australian Naval Base in Sydney earlier in the day. This is the first time a U.S. Navy ship has been commissioned in …
An explosion has occurred at an ammunition depot in the Russian-occupied Crimea region of Ukraine. On April 22, major news organizations reported that the head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said in a telegram that an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Krasnovardiske region of Crimea was caused by a Ukrainian …
China has emphasized the “September 19 Joint Statement” agreed to by the parties to the Six-Party Talks in 2005 in response to the recent escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula. “The Korean Peninsula issue is essentially a security issue, a product of the Cold War-era factional confrontation,” Xu Xueyuan told the National Committee for …