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For the first time in his pro career, the brakes came off a fit Shohei Ohtani in 2021, and the Los Angeles Angels’ star showed the world his long-pursued prowess as a two-way player. But some doubters are still calling his performance a fluke. Twenty years after Ichiro Suzuki became […]

Osaka – Yuma Mune’s two-run eighth-inning home run brought the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes from behind as they clinched a postseason berth with a 2-2 tie against the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines on Tuesday. With one on and two out in the eighth inning and Orix trailing 2-0 at Kyocera […]

The Seibu Lions won the right to negotiate with top pitching prospect Chihiro Sumida out of Fukuoka Prefecture’s Nishinippon Institute of Technology on Monday at Nippon Professional Baseball’s amateur draft. The Pacific League’s (PL) Lions were among four clubs to nominate the left-hander as their top pick, along with the […]

The Chicago White Sox kept their playoff run alive by roaring back from four runs down to beat the Houston Astros 12-6 in Game 3 of their American League division series on Sunday. Facing elimination at their home ballpark, the White Sox rallied once, lost the lead and rallied again […]

Kimiyasu Kudo almost became the manager of the DeNA BayStars during the 2011 offseason. The BayStars, though, didn’t want to cede as much control over running the team as Kudo wanted, so the parties went their separate ways. The BayStars instead hired Kiyoshi Nakahata, who lost at least 75 games […]

Christian Vazquez hit a two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 13th inning as the Boston Red Sox walked off with a 6-4 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays in Game 3 of their American League Division Series on Sunday. Vazquez sent the first pitch he […]

Fukuoka – Eight big innings from ace pitcher Kodai Senga and home runs from Alfredo Despaigne and Richard Sunagawa, saw the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks snap their eight-game losing streak with a 3-1 come-from-behind win over the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes on Sunday. On the same day reports surfaced that Hawks […]

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks manager Kimiyasu Kudo, who guided the Pacific League club to five Japan Series titles in six years, plans to resign at the end of this season, a source familiar with the matter said Sunday. The 58-year-old Kudo is on a two-year contract that expires at the end […]

The NPB draft is scheduled to take place Monday evening, as the league prepares to welcome a new crop of players into its ranks. There will be members of the 2021 draft class who make an immediate impact in 2022, some who take longer to come into their own and […]

Los Angeles – Logan Webb dominated in his playoff debut Friday, striking out 10 in over seven shutout innings as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 in the opening game of the National League Division Series. Webb got plenty of support from the Giants’ sluggers as […]