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FUKUOKA – Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks slugger Alfredo Despaigne stole the spotlight from a duel of big-name pitchers on Monday, homering twice to lead the Pacific League-leading SoftBank Hawks to a 6-3 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. Despaigne capped the Hawks’ three-run first inning with a two-run homer off […]

TORONTO – Masahiro Tanaka kept the Toronto Blue Jays off-balance with a three-hit, eight-inning performance on Sunday, helping the New York Yankees snap a two-game losing streak with a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Tanaka (8-6) fell three outs short of a complete game shutout […]

FUKUOKA – Ariel Miranda pitched out of a pair of bases-loaded jams and Kenji Akashi delivered a tie-breaking, two-run single as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 in the Pacific League on Sunday. Miranda (6-3) survived five walks and an error, allowing just two hits […]

BOSTON – Mike Trout can cross Fenway Park off his home run to-do list. Trout hit the first home run of his career at Fenway and the Los Angeles Angels snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 12-4 rout of the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Shohei Ohtani had a […]

LOS ANGELES – Kenta Maeda’s confidence was waning after going more than two months without a win and he knew he had to make some changes. The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher made his adjustments between starts and, for at least one night, appeared dominant. The right-hander allowed only three hits […]

FUKUOKA – Kodai Senga battled through seven innings for the win Saturday as the Pacific League-leading Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks came from behind for an 8-4 victory over the error-prone Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. The Hawks ace improved to 11-4 after striking out 10, while allowing four runs on seven hits […]

CINCINNATI – Yu Darvish surrendered three home runs and was outdueled by Trevor Bauer on Friday night as the Chicago Cubs suffered a 5-2 defeat at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds. After striking out the first three batters he faced at Great American Ball Park, Darvish (4-6), who was […]

The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows, however, didn’t quite knock the Kyojin out. Kazuma Okamoto hit a game-tying three run homer in the eighth and Yoshiyuki Kamei won it with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as Yomiuri surged late for a 10-9 win […]

TORONTO – Blue Jays rookie Bo Bichette had fitting competition during a record-setting first game in Toronto — a Yankees lineup led by a player plenty familiar with Rogers Centre. Gio Urshela hit two home runs for the second straight game and New York outslugged Bichette and the Blue Jays […]

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball is going to build it — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming to Iowa. The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees next summer at the site in eastern Iowa where the movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed, MLB announced […]