page_title: Chin-Hui Tsao
section_title: Return to the Los Angeles Dodgers
hierarchical_section_title: Chin-Hui Tsao / Professional Baseball / Return to the Los Angeles Dodgers
caption_attribution_description: English: Chin-Hui Tsao pitching for 2015 Dodgers
context_page_description: Chin-Hui Tsao is a Taiwanese former professional baseball pitcher. He is the second major league player and the first major league pitcher from Taiwan, and like the first, former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Chin-Feng Chen, he is a Taiwanese aborigine of Amis ancestry. He had previously played in Major League Baseball for the Colorado Rockies and Dodgers before spending the 2009 season with the Brother Elephants in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. After the 2009 Taiwan Series, Tsao was investigated for game-fixing scandals, although he was ultimately not indicted on February 10, 2010. Tsao was expelled by CPBL on December 23, 2009. He has recorded the fastest pitch by a Taiwanese pitcher at 100 mph in 2005.
context_section_description: On December 31, 2014, Tsao signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers that included an invitation to spring training. He was assigned to the AA Tulsa Drillers to start the season  but was promoted to the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers. He was called up to the major league team on July 8, 2015, eight years after his last MLB appearance.
  Tsao was called up by the Dodgers in June 2015, 8 years since his last appearance in the Majors. On July 10, Tsao pitched a scoreless seventh inning in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers, his first major league outing since July 14, 2007. Due to the Dodgers' rally in the bottom of the inning, Tsao picked up his first major league win since May 11, 2005, when he was with the Colorado Rockies. He was the first pitcher since Johnny Lindell in 1953 to have a gap of more than ten years between major league wins. Tsao was the 18th different Dodgers pitcher to pitch in relief in the 2015 season. He pitched in five games for the Dodgers, allowing nine runs on 15 hits in seven innings. He was optioned back to AAA on July 26 and designated for assignment on July 30. He remained in Oklahoma City for the rest of the season, where he was 2–1 with a 2.77 ERA in 30 games with seven saves. In February 2016, he signed a new minor league contract with the Dodgers. He began the season with Oklahoma City, where he had a 3.31 ERA in 17 games. On May 19, he was added to the Dodgers major league roster. He appeared in two games for the Dodgers, on May 19 and May 21, working 1​²⁄₃ innings, walking three and allowing one run to score. After the second game, he was placed on the disabled list with a strained right triceps and remained there the rest of the season. On November 9, Tsao was outrighted off the 40-man roster and he elected to become a free agent.
caption: Tsao pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2015
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