Baseball

Eagles pitcher Yuki Matsui celebrates saving his 200th career game in a Pacific League baseball game against the Seibu Lions at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi in Sendai on Wednesday. | KYODO SENDAI – Yuki Matsui pitched out of a ninth-inning pickle to preserve the Rakuten Eagles’ lead and save his […]

Osaka – Ryoya Kurihara homered and drove in three runs as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the 2022 Japan Series champion Orix Buffaloes 6-1 Tuesday to extend their season-opening winning streak to four games. Two-run homers by Kensuke Kondo, who was a key member of Japan’s World Baseball Classic-winning team, […]

SEATTLE – Shohei Ohtani went deep for the second straight game for the Los Angeles Angels on Monday, while the Boston Red Sox’s Masataka Yoshida blasted his first MLB home run. Two-way star Ohtani, batting third as the designated hitter at T-Mobile Park against the Seattle Mariners, broke a 2-2 […]

Kodai Senga struck out eight batters to lead the New York Mets to a 5-1 win over the Miami Marlins in his major league debut on Sunday afternoon. Mets backup center fielder Tommy Pham went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and one walk as New York took three out of four […]

OAKLAND, California – Shintaro Fujinami got off to a bright start before giving up eight runs over 2⅓ innings and getting tagged with a loss in his MLB debut Saturday, as the Oakland Athletics lost 13-1 to the Los Angeles Angels. The former Hanshin Tigers right-hander struck out four during […]

Fukuoka – Ryoya Kurihara homered for the second straight day to lead the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks’ offense in a 7-0 Pacific League win Saturday over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Kurihara, whose rising star took a hit last year with season-ending knee surgery in April, opened the scoring with a fourth-inning […]

Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. – Yamanashi Gakuin beat Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th high school invitational baseball tournament Saturday at Koshien Stadium behind a complete game from ace Kengo Hayashi, claiming a first-ever national championship for Yamanashi Prefecture. The right-hander started all six of his team’s games […]

Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido – The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters touted the opening of their new home, Es Con Field Hokkaido, as the dawning of a new generation. Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Nippon Ham’s charismatic manager, said he was creating a new era during practice on Wednesday, the day before the Fighters opened the […]

Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido – Masahiro Tanaka was the visiting pitcher at Es Con Field Hokkaido on opening night, but part of him felt at home. Maybe it was because before he rocketed to fame with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and pitched for the New York Yankees, Tanaka was a high […]

Tony Kemp and Aledmys Diaz spoiled Shohei Ohtani’s impressive season debut with RBI hits in a two-run, eighth-inning rally Thursday night that delivered the host Oakland Athletics a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Opening Day. Ohtani didn’t get a decision in the game despite leaving with a […]