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The Hiroshima Carp opened up some parts of Mazda Stadium on Thursday, allowing some lucky fans the chance to watch the Central League club work out during their first practice in nearly a month and a half. Fans were barred from preseason games in late February in Japan, and players […]

The J. League hit pause after one round. The B. League went dark with one-third of the season left. Japanese baseball hasn’t even started. Sports has been awash in postponements and cancellations in leagues around the world — the NBA got the ball rolling when it paused its season in […]

Japan’s annual Summer National High School Tournament at Koshien has been canceled amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said Wednesday. The decision not to hold the summer tourney is the first time since the World War II that it will not be held. The spring version also was canceled in […]

The Japan High School Baseball Federation decided Wednesday to cancel this summer’s edition of Japan’s famed summer high school baseball tournament due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning the nation’s largest amateur sporting event will not be held for the first time since World War II. The National High School Baseball […]

New York – The Texas Rangers would prefer to stay home in their new ballpark instead of returning to Arizona whenever it is time to get back to spring training. They still haven’t played a game, or even had an organized workout, in their $1.2 billion stadium with a retractable […]

WASHINGTON – The Washington Nationals will unveil their World Series championship rings during a « virtual” ceremony shown on television and online Sunday — an unprecedented approach brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. With the start of the Major League Baseball season on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak, Nationals owner […]

Houston – A 5-year-old boy and a woman drowned in the backyard pool of former Los Angeles Dodgers player Carl Crawford’s Houston home, according to reports. Houston police were called about 2:40 p.m. Saturday for a reported drowning at a north Houston home that property and business records list as […]

Houston – Former major league manager and infielder Art Howe was released from a Houston hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the coronavirus. « Relief, back in my own bedroom. It’s just sweet,” the 73-year-old Howe said. « It was a long five days or so. I’m finally […]

New York – Major League Baseball will look somewhat like high school ball this year under protocols to deal with the new coronavirus, with showers at ballparks discouraged and players possibly arriving in uniform, like they did when they were teenagers. Team personnel will be banned from eating at restaurants […]

Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish on Friday joined a growing chorus of Major League Baseball stars expressing resentment about possibly being asked to work in unsafe conditions while the new coronavirus pandemic rages. « I think it’s basically the same as treating MLB players like fighting dogs, » Darvish wrote on his […]