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Takeya Nakamura, Hotaka Yamakawa and Wu Nien-ting homered in the ninth inning on Saturday to power the Pacific League’s Saitama Seibu Lions to a 6-3 come-from-behind interleague win over the Central League’s Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Nakamura led off the ninth at Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium with his fifth home run, off […]

Home runs by Justin Upton and Jose Rojas, and six strong innings by Shohei Ohtani led the Los Angeles Angels to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday in Anaheim, California. But it was the performance by reliever Raisel Iglesias that saved the day for the Angels. Iglesias […]

Los Angeles – Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, who plays for the Triple A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, revealed that he will return to Japan in an Instagram post on Wednesday. The 33-year-old signed a minor-league deal with the Giants in February and has played for the Sacramento River Cats. […]

A pro-business group based in Texas, the Job Creators Network, has filed a federal lawsuit against Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, seeking $1 billion in punitive damages and $100 million in damages to local businesses. In April, MLB announced it would move the event […]

Round one goes to the Central League and, of all teams, the Chunichi Dragons. Interleague play kicked off across NPB last week, and the Dragons, who were in fifth place in the CL after the first-half of intraleague competition, are at the top of the standings. While the early part […]

Justin Smoak homered and drove in three runs to lift the defending Central League champion Yomiuri Giants past the Pacific League’s Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4-3 on Sunday in interleague action. Smoak singled in two first-inning runs off Tsuyoshi Wada (3-3), and after Kazuma Okamoto broke a 2-2 fifth-inning tie with […]

Oakland, California – Shohei Ohtani drove in a pair of runs and starter Alex Cobb dominated over seven innings Saturday as the Los Angeles Angels blanked the Oakland Athletics 4-0. A day after taking his first loss of the season as a pitcher, two-way star Ohtani returned to the lineup […]

OAKLAND, California – Shohei Ohtani took his first loss of the season Friday, giving up three runs over six-plus innings as the Los Angeles Angels fell 3-1 to the Oakland Athletics. A day after his scheduled start was postponed because of a traffic jam en route to the Oakland Coliseum, […]

Oakland, California – Shohei Ohtani batted second as the team’s designated hitter and went 0-for-3 with a walk instead of pitching in the Los Angeles Angels’ 5-0 loss against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday, after being forced to take public transportation to Oakland Coliseum. Ohtani was not scheduled to hit […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani blasted his 15th home run of the season Tuesday as the Los Angeles Angels ran away with an 11-5 win over the Texas Rangers. Batting second as designated hitter, the two-way star jumped on a 3-2 cutter from righty Brett de Geus and drilled it […]