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Arlington, Texas – Right-hander Shintaro Fujinami made an early exit and was charged with his fourth straight loss Saturday as the Oakland Athletics were pummeled 18-3 by the Texas Rangers. The 29-year-old former Hanshin Tiger lasted just 2⅓ innings in which he gave up eight runs on seven hits and […]

Seattle – St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar made the most of his chance Friday to quiz former MLB star Ichiro Suzuki in their first meeting. With the Cardinals in town for a weekend series against the Seattle Mariners, who employ Suzuki as an assistant to the club’s chairman, the […]

NAGOYA – Hanshin Tigers rookie Shoki Murakami dominated for the second straight game, going the distance for his first career win Saturday, 2-0 over the Central League rival Chunichi Dragons. The 24-year-old right-hander, who retired all 21 batters he faced in his previous start before being pulled for a pinch-hitter, […]

LOS ANGELES – Shohei Ohtani earned his third win Friday in a dominant pitching performance in the Los Angeles Angels’ 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The two-way superstar struck out 11, including the last six batters he faced, in seven innings of two-hit ball at Angel Stadium as […]

For more than half a century, the Oakland Athletics were one of the signature professional sports clubs in the Bay Area, a consistent presence alongside Interstate 880, while other teams in the city like the Oakland Raiders, the Golden State Warriors and even the California Golden Seals came and went. […]

San Francisco – New York Mets pitcher Kodai Senga earned his third win after getting through five innings in a 9-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday. Senga (3-0) yielded two solo homers in a four-run fifth inning that cut the Mets’ lead to 5-4 at San Francisco’s […]

Mark Gubicza has an idea, and he is just the guy to make it happen. As a pitcher in the 1980s and ’90s, Gubicza was a teammate of Bo Jackson’s on the Kansas City Royals. As a television analyst now, he calls games for the Los Angeles Angels, the team […]

The Oakland Athletics agreed to buy a 49-acre site just off the Las Vegas Strip and hope to relocate to Nevada, team president Dave Kaval told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday. The club plans to build a new ballpark on the site at Dean Martin Drive and Tropicana Avenue, […]

Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture – Veteran pinch-hitter Ryuhei Matsuyama cleared the bases with a three-run double, bringing the Hiroshima Carp from behind in a 7-5 Central League win over the Hanshin Tigers on Thursday. With Hiroshima trailing 4-2 at Hyogo Prefecture’s historic Koshien Stadium outside Osaka and Hanshin’s outfield playing shallow […]

Osaka – New import Frank Schwindel had three hits in his Orix Buffaloes debut, breaking an eighth-inning tie with an RBI single to lift the Japan Series champion to a 2-1 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Pacific League on Wednesday night. The 30-year-old, who came to […]