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Munetaka Murakami clutched two water bottles in his hand as he sprinted onto the field to help douse Tokyo Yakult Swallows rookie Kazuya Maruyama, who clinched the Central League pennant for Yakult with a sayonara double on Sunday at Jingu Stadium. Murakami later wrapped Swallows captain Tetsuto Yamada in a […]

Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa will not return to the dugout this season, the team announced on Saturday. Per the White Sox, doctors have advised La Russa against returning after the 77-year-old underwent additional testing and medical procedures. La Russa has been out since Aug. 28 with a […]

Sendai – Yoshinobu Yamamoto outpitched former New York Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka with seven shutout innings as the Orix Buffaloes routed the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 9-1 in the Pacific League on Saturday. Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-5 with his 21st home run of the season and six RBIs. Yuma Tongu […]

Los Angeles – St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols became just the fourth Major League Baseball player to hit 700 home runs on Friday, with two homers against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 42-year-old Dominican, playing in what he says is his final season, joined Barry Bonds (762 home runs), Hank […]

MINNEAPOLIS – Shohei Ohtani reached 200 strikeouts in a season for the first time and extended his MLB career-best win total to 14 as the Los Angeles Angels held off the Minnesota Twins 4-2 on Friday. Ohtani (14-8) got some much-needed help from the Los Angeles bullpen and Taylor Ward’s […]

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has captivated the baseball world as he blasts his way up the all-time single-season home run list, which is welcome news for Major League Baseball after years of declining TV viewership and ticket sales. Long touted as “America’s national pastime,” MLB has been struggling […]

Reliever Hiromu Ise inherited a no-out bases-loaded jam and pitched out of it to help secure the DeNA BayStars 3-0 Central League win over the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday. The win at Yokohama Stadium moved second-place DeNA to within six games of the league-leading Yakult Swallows on the eve of […]

New York – New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is on the brink of Major League Baseball history after smashing his 60th home run of the season. The solo blast to left-centerfield off Pittsburgh’s Wil Crowe in the bottom of the ninth helped spark a Yankees fightback Tuesday when Giancarlo […]

The Yomiuri Giants made sure the race for third place in the Central League remained as tight as ever. They also ensured Munetaka Murakami remained stuck on 55 home runs for at least one more day as he chases the single-season record. In a time of both misinformation and too […]

Osaka – Masataka Yoshida drove in four runs, and Yuma Mune singled in the game-winner, lifting the Orix Buffaloes to a 5-4, 10th-inning walk-off win over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on Monday to complete a three-game sweep of the series between the Pacific League’s top two teams. Yoshida hit a […]