NEW YORK – Masahiro Tanaka yielded a go-ahead home run to George Springer in the third inning in the New York Yankees’ 8-3 loss to the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday. Tanaka allowed four runs — three earned — on four hits […]
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2019 Japan Series managers take trip down memory lane on eve of Game 1
FUKUOKA – Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks manager Kimiyasu Kudo admitted to feeling a little bit nostalgic on the eve of this year’s Japan Series matchup against the Yomiuri Giants. Kudo was a pitcher for Yomiuri the last time these two clubs vied for the crown. That was in 2000 during the […]
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Astros pounce on Mashiro Tanaka, Yankees in Game 4
NEW YORK – Masahiro Tanaka yielded a go-ahead home run to George Springer in the third inning in the New York Yankees’ 8-3 loss to the Houston Astros in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday. Tanaka allowed four runs — three earned — on four hits […]
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Marines make high school hurler Roki Sasaki top pick in NPB amateur draft
The Chiba Lotte Marines took hard-throwing high school pitcher Roki Sasaki in NPB’s amateur draft Thursday after four teams selected the teen talent who has been on the radar of major league clubs. The 17-year-old Sasaki’s fastball has been clocked in competition at 160 kph and as high as 163 […]
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U.S. national team manager Joe Girardi steps down; Scott Brosius replaces him
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – Joe Girardi quit as manager of the U.S. baseball team trying to qualify for the Olympics before it played a single game. Girardi said Wednesday he is leaving to pursue a major league managing job. There are seven current openings. He will be replaced by Scott […]
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Angels hire Joe Maddon as new manager
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – Joe Maddon is back under the halo. Maddon agreed to a three-year deal to become the Los Angeles Angels’ manager on Wednesday, reuniting the World Series-winning former skipper of the Chicago Cubs with the organization where he spent the first three decades of his baseball career. The […]
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Pitch-tipping paranoia haunting MLB teams in October
NEW YORK – Astros manager AJ Hinch has heard the chatter — that Rays starter Tyler Glasnow was offering a sneak peek on his offspeed deliveries, that Houston had a poker-worthy tell on Yankees hard throwers James Paxton and Luis Severino. All that pitch-tipping paranoia? “I think it’s kind of […]
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Wild-card Nationals head to World Series with sweep of Cards
WASHINGTON – It was merely the first inning, yet fans kept rising out of their seats to applaud or yell or twirl their red towels, to chant “Let’s go, Nats!” and “M-V-P!” and various players’ names, enjoying every moment of a seven-run outburst that would, eventually, propel their city to […]
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Stephen Strasburg stifles Cardinals as Nationals move within one victory of World Series
WASHINGTON – More than 100 pitches in, Stephen Strasburg was adamant he wasn’t quite ready to leave the latest superb start by a Nationals pitcher against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Championship Series — a win that put Washington on the verge of the city’s first World Series […]
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Carlos Correa’s 11th-inning walkoff home run brings Astros even with Yankees
HOUSTON – Carlos Correa hit a leadoff home run in the 11th inning and the Houston Astros won a battle of the bullpens, beating the New York Yankees 3-2 Sunday night to tie the AL Championship Series at one game apiece. The slumping Correa, who earlier hit an RBI double […]