Taipei, April 22 (CNA) The La New Bears placed relief pitcher Keng Po-hsuan on the injured list after he burned his crotch in an accident at home, the team said in a press release Thursday.
Keng, who played Major League Baseball for a Toronto Blue Jays farm team from 2005 to 2008, suffered injury to his private parts "from boiling water, " the team said without elaborating. He is expected to return in one to two weeks.
The right-handed reliever, who returned to Taiwan and was selected by La New in a Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) special draft in 2009, appeared in seven games this season and registered one win and two saves with a 1.00 earned run average (ERA).
Keng was not the first La New player to suffer such an injury. On Oct. 19, 2007, one day before La New opened the best-of-seven Taiwan Series against the Uni-President Lions, American pitcher Andrew Lorraine had a similar experience.
Lorraine was watching a scouting DVD with a cup of coffee in his hands when he was bumped by a teammate and spilled the scalding hot beverage on his lap.
The former major leaguer, who was later released in 2008, still managed to play in Game 2 as a reliever and started Game 4. La New eventually lost 4-3 in the series. (By Chris Wang) enditem/bc