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Osaka – Roki Sasaki allowed his first base runner and runs in three weeks, and worked just five innings, but the Chiba Lotte Marines held on to get him the win in Sunday’s 6-3 Pacific League victory over the Orix Buffaloes. On the heels of eight perfect innings but no […]

Chicago – Seiya Suzuki had three hits for the first time in his rookie MLB season on Saturday, going 3-for-4 with an RBI as the Chicago Cubs trounced the Pittsburgh Pirates 21-0. Suzuki singled and scored his team’s opening run in the first inning at Wrigley Field before his one-out […]

Detroit – Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera joined Major League Baseball’s elite 3,000-hit club on Saturday, becoming just the 33rd player to reach the milestone. The 39-year-old became just the seventh player to achieve 3,000 career hits and 500 home runs, joining Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Albert Pujols, Eddie Murray, […]

MESA, Arizona – Ichiro Suzuki is a sinewy 5 feet 11 inches and 170 pounds, while Mike Trout is a stout 6-2, 235. They represent wildly different body types and playing styles, but their unique abilities converged in influencing the career path of Seiya Suzuki. After just two weeks with […]

Any time a pitcher returns to the mound after a no-hitter or perfect game, the name Johnny Vander Meer is evoked. In 1938, Vander Meer followed up one no-hitter with another in his next start for the Cincinnati Reds. Of course, despite the predictable anticipation, no one has matched Vander […]

Kazuya Fujita broke a fifth-inning tie with a pinch-hit RBI single, and Taishi Ota drove in an insurance run as the DeNA BayStars won a 7-5 Central League game on Thursday, handing the Hanshin Tigers their fourth straight loss. The game was called on account of rain with two on […]

Kazuya Fujita broke a fifth-inning tie with a pinch-hit RBI single, and Taishi Ota drove in an insurance run as the DeNA BayStars won a 7-5 Central League game on Thursday, handing the Hanshin Tigers their fourth straight loss. The game was called on account of rain with two on […]

Utility infielder Gosuke Katoh started his first major-league game Thursday, drawing a walk and scoring a run in the Toronto Blue Jays’ 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox. Batting eighth and playing second base, the 27-year-old Katoh, born in California to Japanese parents, began a big-league game for the […]

Osaka – In a country of baseball fanatics, Hanshin Tigers supporters are known as Japan’s rowdiest — so they are aching to cut loose as a pandemic ban on cheering drags into a third season. In pre-pandemic times, the Tigers’ Koshien Stadium near Osaka was a riot of noise and […]

Shohei Ohtani carried a perfect game into the sixth inning and also played a central role with his bat in the first-inning uprising that kicked off the visiting Los Angeles Angels’ 6-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday. In the rubber match of a three-game series, Ohtani (1-2) retired […]