Baseball

HIROSHIMA – Yusuke Nomura allowed just one single over eight scoreless innings as the Hiroshima Carp tightened up the Central League pennant race with a 4-1 win over the second-place Yokohama BayStars on Thursday night. Nomura (6-3) struck out six without issuing a walk, and was gifted a one-run lead […]

HOUSTON – With Houston’s powerful offense, there always seem to be men on base when Yuli Gurriel comes to the plate in the bottom part of the Astros order. On Wednesday, he found a way to send most of them home. Gurriel drove in a team record-tying eight runs, Gerrit […]

BOSTON – The Boston Red Sox say second baseman Dustin Pedroia has had another surgery on his troublesome left knee. The 35-year-old Pedroia has played only six games this season, all in April. The four-time All-Star was limited to three games last year. The Red Sox announced that Pedroia had […]

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – Four-time World Series champion Joe Girardi will manage Team USA at an Olympic qualifying tournament in November, hoping to guide the squad to a spot at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. USA Baseball said Wednesday the rest of the coaching staff for the Premier12 competition […]

NAGOYA – Cristopher Mercedes held the Chunichi Dragons hitless through five innings as the Yomiuri Giants won 9-3 and hung on to their slim lead in the Central League on Wednesday. Mercedes (7-6) allowed three runs over 5⅔ innings but did not give up a hit until he had a […]

Warren Cromartie says he’s always been a team player. So when his former Yomiuri Giants teammate Tatsunori Hara, currently the club’s manager, asked for his help, there was no way the 1989 Central League MVP was going to turn him down. Cromartie was already in Japan, working some things with […]

HOUSTON – Zack Greinke’s debut with the Houston Astros on Tuesday night was made easier by the warm welcome he received from his new teammates in the days since his trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks. It didn’t hurt that the Astros also provided him a ton of offense. Greinke labored […]

TOKOROZAWA, SAITAMA PREF. – Rookie Hayato Yuge got his second professional win Tuesday, throwing seven strong innings as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles thrashed the Seibu Lions 10-0. The 25-year-old southpaw received plenty of support from the Eagles batters, who racked up 15 hits and grabbed the lead in the […]

BALTIMORE – Sometimes, baseball isn’t all that mystifying. Match a hard-hitting lineup against an inexperienced pitching staff, put them both in a small ballpark, and the result is quite predictable. Such is the case when the New York Yankees face the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. The Yankees hit five […]

SENDAI – Yuji Nishino got the win in his first start in two years, as the Chiba Lotte Marines overpowered the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 8-1 on Monday. Daichi Suzuki went 2-for-4 to lead a balanced Marines attack that saw seven different batters combine for nine hits. After being picked […]