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OSAKA – Ren Mukunoki, the Orix Buffaloes’ top draft pick last fall, allowed his only hit with two outs and two strikes in the ninth inning in a 2-0 Pacific League win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Wednesday. Nippon Ham’s Ryusei Sato lined a high 2-2 slider to […]

Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton and Minnesota’s Byron Buxton hit back-to-back home runs to key the American League’s 3-2 victory in the 92nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday. Stanton, who has 24 homers in the first half of the season, belted a 457-foot game-tying two-run home run off Dodgers […]

LOS ANGELES – Juan Soto put contract talks and trade rumors behind him for one night as the Washington Nationals star won the Home Run Derby on Monday at Los Angeles with a 19-18 advantage in the finals over Seattle Mariners rookie Julio Rodriguez. Soto didn’t hit his first home […]

LOS ANGELES – Juan Soto put contract talks and trade rumors behind him for one night as the Washington Nationals star won the Home Run Derby on Monday at Los Angeles with a 19-18 advantage in the finals over Seattle Mariners rookie Julio Rodriguez. Soto didn’t hit his first home […]

In light of a report that he turned down a 15-year, $440 million contract offer, Washington Nationals star Juan Soto faced questions about his future with the club Monday during media availability for the MLB All-Star Game in Los Angeles. Soto called the leak “pretty frustrating,” but said his motivation […]

Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani – baseball’s would-be saviors – need rescuing themselves. Their Los Angeles Angels are headed toward another dreadful finish, another missed postseason. They’ve got an interim manager, a long-shot plan to build a contender one day and a 39-53 record. In a time of both misinformation […]

Aito Takeda scored a run and drove in another Monday as the Seibu Lions kept up their pursuit of the Pacific League pennant with a 5-1 comeback win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. The Lions, who started the day a half-game back from the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the […]

The Hiroshima Carp and their fans had a grand old time at Tokyo Dome over the weekend. Shota Dobayashi hit a pinch-hit, come-from-behind grand slam in the fourth inning, and the Carp finished off a sweep of the Yomiuri Giants with a 10-5 win on Sunday afternoon at the Big […]

Sapporo – Naoyuki Uwasawa pitched into the eighth inning to earn the victory as the Pacific League’s last-place Nippon Ham Fighters rolled off their seventh straight win 1-0 over the Seibu Lions on Saturday. At Sapporo Dome, Uwasawa (6-5) allowed five hits and three walks over 7⅓ innings to outduel […]

SAN DIEGO – Yu Darvish allowed three runs over seven innings, pitching the San Diego Padres to a 5-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday and collecting his eighth win of the season. Darvish (8-4) surrendered five hits and two walks while striking out nine for the Padres at […]