Baseball

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani blasted a pair of home runs as the Los Angeles Angels went deep a season-high seven times in an 8-7 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. The Angels scored all of their runs on solo homers and earned a dubious club record for the […]

Rookie Iori Yamasaki pitched eight innings and singled in a run as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 7-0 in the Central League to snap a four-game losing streak on Thursday. The win at Tokyo Dome was Yomiuri’s first since most of its roster became infected with COVID-19. The […]

At the end of the 1957 baseball season, Brooklyn Dodgers management packed up for a long-threatened move across the continent. Into the hypothetical moving trunks went the home uniforms saying “Dodgers” across the front, the creaky old heroes of Flatbush and much of the front office, plus manager Walter Alston […]

New York – First baseman Yoshitomo Tsutsugo was designated for assignment by the Pittsburgh Pirates in order to make room on the 40-man roster on Wednesday. Signed to a $4 million contract this offseason, the 30-year-old former NPB slugger has struggled in 2022, his third season in MLB, hitting .171 […]

Anaheim – Shohei Ohtani came up empty in his third bid for history as the Los Angeles Angels fell to the Oakland Athletics 3-1 on Wednesday, leaving the two-way star stuck at nine wins. No MLB player since Babe Ruth in 1918 has won 10 games as a pitcher and […]

Sendai – Roki Sasaki returned to league action for the first time in over a month, but was knocked out in the sixth inning and took the loss as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-4 in the Pacific League on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Sasaki (6-2), […]

San Diego – San Diego Padres ace Yu Darvish logged his 10th win of the year in a 13-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday, reaching the benchmark for the first time since 2017. The Padres won the first game of the doubleheader at Petco Park after an eight-player […]

Los Angeles – Vin Scully, one of baseball’s most revered broadcasters who called Dodgers’ games for a record-breaking 67 years and narrated some of the sport’s greatest moments, died on Tuesday at the age of 94, the team announced. “We have lost an icon,” Dodgers President & CEO Stan Kasten […]

Munetaka Murakami saw himself hitting a home run in a dream before Tuesday night’s game against the Chunichi Dragons. He turned that dream into reality in his very first at-bat of the game. Then, he went deep again in his next trip to the plate. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger […]

Washington – Washington Nationals slugger Juan Soto and first baseman Josh Bell were sent to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday in a blockbuster deal at the Major League Baseball trade deadline. Teams raced to make final roster moves for the last two months of the campaign, but the biggest […]