Baseball

With the NPB season nearly over — no team has more than 16 games left — it’s almost time for the group of retired pitchers who vote on the Sawamura Award to sit down and have a chat. When they finish lamenting that none of today’s pitchers are as good […]

LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers are on the verge of another runaway division title, and still there was anxiety Sunday. Matt Beaty homered to end a 12-inning scoreless streak, Corey Seager also connected and Los Angeles beat the San Francisco Giants 5-0 to reduce their magic number to clinch the […]

SENDAI – Hotaka Yamakawa hit a game-winning double and Keisuke Honda had a solid start, as the Seibu Lions beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 3-2 on Sunday to clinch their series. Honda scattered four hits, pitching into the sixth inning, after Takeya Nakamura drove in two early runs at […]

CHICAGO – Shohei Ohtani shared few details about his recent hitting adjustments. The results speak for themselves. Ohtani hit a three-run home run and drove in a career-high five runs to help the Los Angeles Angels to an 8-7 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night. “I’m not […]

Tokyo Yakult Swallows manager Junji Ogawa said Sunday he intends to take responsibility for the Central League club’s poor performance this year and retire when his two-year contract expires at the end of the season. The announcement follows Yakult’s 10-6 loss to the Yomiuri Giants on Saturday, which ensured the […]

NAGOYA – Yuya Yanagi bounced back from a tough first inning to work seven innings and win for the first time in two months as the Chunichi Dragons defeated the Yokohama BayStars 8-3 on Saturday. Yanagi (10-5) surrendered back-to-back first-inning home runs at Nagoya Dome to Jose Lopez and Yoshitomo […]

CHICAGO – Brian Goodwin left his mark on a game, just as Mike Trout has done so often for the Los Angeles Angels. Goodwin’s two-run homer in the eighth inning tied the game, and Justin Upton hit a solo shot in the ninth that proved to be the winner as […]

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball and the players’ association will discuss the possibility of more widespread testing for opioids following the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Skaggs was found dead in his hotel room in the Dallas area July 1 before the start of a series […]

FUKUOKA – Kodai Senga threw the 91st regular season no-hitter in NPB history on Friday in the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks’ 2-0 victory over the Chiba Lotte Marines. The 26-year-old right-hander struck out 12, while walking three and hitting another to win a pitchers’ duel against Lotte’s Mike Bolsinger, who only […]

ATLANTA – Max Fried knew his night was about done. So, with the final pitch of the most dominating performance of his big league career, he unleashed a 96 mph fastball. “Just leave it all out there,” Fried said. “If he got me, he got me.” No worries. Juan Soto […]