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Houston – If there is a blemish on the stellar resume of Houston Astros right-hander Justin Verlander, it is this: in seven career World Series starts with two franchises, Verlander is 0-6 with a 5.68 ERA. That mark seems incongruous with everything Verlander has accomplished. He is a surefire Hall […]

Osaka – Masataka Yoshida belted two home runs, including a ninth-inning walk-off blast that tied the Japan Series, as the Pacific League’s Orix Buffaloes beat the Central League’s Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6-4 in Game 5 on Thursday. The series between Japan’s two repeat league champs, a rematch of last year’s […]

Baseball loves its numbers, yet none of the sport’s squadron of calculators and array of analytical equations foresaw this. It will be the Houston Astros vs. the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 World Series starting Friday in a matchup of “Them Again?” vs. “How the Heck?” The No. 1 seed […]

Yutaro Sugimoto singled in the game’s only run, and four Orix Buffaloes pitchers combined on a six-hit shutout in the Pacific League champs’ 1-0 Japan Series Game 4 win over the Central League’s Yakult Swallows on Wednesday. Sugimoto, who struck out with two outs and the bases loaded in the […]

Osaka – Tetsuto Yamada blasted a three-run home run and lefty Keiji Takahashi threw six scoreless innings as the Tokyo Yakult Swallows beat the Orix Buffaloes 7-1 in Game 3 of the Japan Series on Tuesday to take a two-game lead in the series. Yamada broke up a scoreless game […]

Orix Buffaloes ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto won his second straight Eiji Sawamura Award as Japan’s most impressive starting pitcher of the season on Monday, becoming the sixth player in Nippon Professional Baseball history to go back-to-back and the first from the Pacific League. The right-hander led the PL in four statistical […]

The final out in Game 2 of the Japan Series invoked neither the thrill of victory nor the agony of defeat after five hours at Jingu Stadium on Sunday night. A 3-3 tie between the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and Orix Buffaloes left both sides in a weird state of emotional […]

New York – Yordan Alvarez hit a game-tying single in the seventh inning and Alex Bregman followed with a go-ahead single as the visiting Houston Astros advanced to their fourth World Series in six seasons with a 6-5 victory over the New York Yankees Sunday night to complete a sweep […]

Bryce Harper smacked the deciding home run in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies advanced to the World Series on Sunday with a 4-3 victory over San Diego. The Phillies reached Major League Baseball’s playoff championship final for the first time in 13 years by defeating the Padres 4-1 […]

The Orix Buffaloes and Tokyo Yakult Swallows played for more than five hours in Game 2 of the Japan Series. That still wasn’t enough to decide a winner. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.By subscribing, you can help us […]