No Sung-Ho (; born October 22, 1989 in

Incheon Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Kore ...

) is a South Korean

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

who plays for the

Samsung Lions The Samsung Lions () are a South Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982. They are based in the southeastern city of Daegu and are members of the KBO League. Their home stadium is Daegu Samsung Lions Park. They have won the Korean Champ ...

in the

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. He bats and throws

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Amateur career

No attended Hwasun High School in

Jeollanam-do South Jeolla Province (; ''Jeollanam-do''; ), also known as Jeonnam, is a province of South Korea. South Jeolla has a population of 1,902,324 (2014) and has a geographic area of located in the Honam region at the southwestern tip of the Korean ...

. After being undrafted out of high school, he continued to play baseball at

Dongguk University Dongguk University (Korean: 동국대학교, Hanja: 東國大學校) is a private, coeducational university in South Korea, fundamentally based on Buddhism. Established in 1906 as Myeongjin School (명진학교; 明進學校) by Buddhist pioneers ...

. As a freshman in No led his team to the national championship at the 42nd President's Flag National Collegiate Championship, earning tournament MVP honors. No was called up to the

South Korean national baseball team The South Korean national baseball team ( ko, 대한민국 야구 국가대표팀) is the national baseball team of South Korea. It won the Baseball World Cup in 1982, and participated in the Summer Olympic Games of 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2000. ...

during his sophomore and junior seasons, and competed in the

2009 Baseball World Cup The 2009 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 38th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through ...

and

2010 World University Baseball Championship The 2010 World University Baseball Championship was an under-23 college baseball competition held at ''Meiji Jingu Stadium'' in Shinjuku, ''Yokohama Stadium'' in Naka-ku, Yokohama, ''Utsumi-Shimaoka Ballpark'' in Fuchū and ''KAIT Stadium'' in At ...

. As a senior in , No went 4–3 with a 3.49 ERA and whiffed 51 batters in innings pitched. He helped his team win the KBO's Flag National Collegiate Championship, and was named MVP and best pitcher of the tournament.

Notable international careers

Professional career

In the KBO Draft, Lee was selected by the

NC Dinos The NC Dinos ( ko, NC 다이노스) are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Changwon. They are a member of the KBO League. Since 2019, their home stadium is Changwon NC Park. NC Dinos are owned by video game developer NCSoft Corpo ...

as the first overall pick, along with

Lee Min-Ho Lee Min-ho (, born June 22, 1987) is a South Korean actor, singer, model, creative director and businessman. He gained widespread fame worldwide with his role as Gu Jun-pyo in ''Boys Over Flowers'' (2009) which also earned him the Best New Acto ...

. During the 2012 season in the

Futures League The Toyota Second XI or Futures League is the Australian national second XI cricket competition. Run by Cricket Australia, it is part of its development program and includes the various state and territory second XI teams, from the 2009–10 se ...

, he showed enough promise to be placed on the Dinos' starting rotation for their inaugural KBO season in 2013, going 6–2 with a 3.36 ERA and 79 strikeouts in 75 innings pitched. No was projected to be the Dinos' fifth starter in . No made his KBO league debut against the

on April 5, 2013, as a starting pitcher. He threw 53 pitches and allowed five earned runs in only one inning pitched in a 10–4 loss. After the game he was sent to the bullpen but never fully recovered, posting a +10.00 ERA through the first two months of the season. At the end of May, No was demoted to the Dinos' second-tier team in the

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. No was called up to the first team again in late June and appeared in eight games as a relief pitcher before he made his second start for the Dinos on July 26, giving up three runs in five innings.

External links

* Korea Baseball Organization career statistics fro
Koreabaseball.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:No, Sung-Ho South Korean baseball players NC Dinos players Samsung Lions players Dongguk University alumni

Sung-ho Sung-ho, also spelled Seong-ho, is a Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading " sung" and 49 hanja with the reading " ho" on the South Korean ...

1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Incheon