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Longtime Pittsburgh Pirates’ outfielder Gregory Polanco brought the Yomiuri Giants from behind with a two-run eighth-inning double, while rookie Taisei Ota pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 11th save in a 5-3 Central League win over the Hiroshima Carp on Wednesday. Trailing 3-0 in the sixth, Giants’ cleanup hitter […]

Boston – Toronto Blue Jays lefty Yusei Kikuchi allowed one run in his five-inning start, but he is still chasing his first win of the season after a 2-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday. Kikuchi, who took a loss against the New York Yankees last week, departed […]

Chicago – Chicago Cubs rookie Seiya Suzuki on Monday hit safely in his ninth straight game in which he had an at-bat, tying Akinori Iwamura’s record for the longest hitting streak to start an MLB career for a Japanese player. Suzuki, who was named National League Player of the Week […]

New York – Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki’s impressive start to his rookie MLB season on Monday earned him a National League Player of the Week award. The 27-year-old hit .412 last week on seven hits in 17 at bats with three homers, five RBIs and five walks in six […]

Japanese rookie sensation Seiya Suzuki walked twice and homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Sunday to earn a split of a four-game series. Suzuki stretched the Cubs’ lead to 6-3 with a solo shot off Ashton Goudeau to right in the seventh before a crowd […]

Chiba – A week after throwing Japan’s first perfect game in 28 years, 20-year-old Roki Sasaki delivered an eight-perfect-inning encore Sunday for the Chiba Lotte Marines in a 1-0, 10-inning Pacific League loss to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. After 102 pitches at Chiba’s Zozo Marine Stadium outside Tokyo, and […]

Arlington, Texas – Two-way star Shohei Ohtani went deep for the second straight day Saturday, belting his third home run, scoring three runs and driving in three in the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-2 win over the Texas Rangers. After ending his longest start-of-the-season home run drought Friday with two blasts, […]

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is reviewing if the latest extension of his paid administrative league is binding and weighing whether to show up for work at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Bauer last appeared in a Dodgers uniform on June 28, before the allegations […]

Once the brightest star in Japan’s amateur baseball constellation, 20-year-old Roki Sasaki has overcome a slow start to his pro career and has now pitched perhaps the world’s greatest nine-inning game. On April 10, the Chiba Lotte Marines’ lanky 190-centimeter right-hander blew past the Nippon Professional Baseball record of nine […]

ARLINGTON, Texas – Two-way star Shohei Ohtani blasted his first two home runs of the season Friday as the Los Angeles Angels came from behind to beat the Texas Rangers 9-6. The reigning American League MVP had not homered in his first seven games of the season for the first […]