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Kai Ueda didn’t have much time to get ready for what might’ve been the biggest moment of his career. Edwin Escobar had just located a 153-kph fastball into Shun Takayama’s hip and someone needed to run the bases during the top of the eighth inning in Game 3 of the […]

YOKOHAMA – Yokohama BayStars left fielder Yoshitomo Tsutsugo has a dream of playing in the major leagues, and the club isn’t going to stand in his way. Tsutsugo went public with his desire late last year, and the club has given its blessing and will make him available via the […]

FUKUOKA – Seiichi Uchikawa drove in the tying and winning runs on Monday to lift the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 2-1 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Game 3 of the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series. The Hawks overcame a one-game deficit in the […]

YOKOHAMA – Anyone who thought the Hanshin Tigers used all nine lives just to make it into the Central League Climax Series was mistaken. They clearly have a few more left up their sleeves. Hanshin took advantage of a pair of costly wild pitches, Ryutaro Umeno broke an eighth-inning tie […]

HIROSHIMA – The Hiroshima Carp promoted pitching coach Shinji Sasaoka and named him the club’s new manager for the 2020 season on Monday. The 52-year-old replaces Koichi Ogata, who stepped down after the Central League team finished the regular season in fourth and missed out on a Climax Series playoff […]

WASHINGTON – With all of that October experience, no wonder Justin Turner and the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers managed to produce a postseason inning unlike any other: seven runs, all scored with two outs and two strikes. Turner’s three-run homer capped a startling and record-setting rally in the […]

FUKUOKA – The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks extended their season for another day, beating the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 6-4 on Sunday to even their Pacific League Climax Series first stage at one game apiece. Shuhei Fukuda broke a 4-4 tie, blasting a hanging forkball from Eagles starter Manabu Mima into […]

Japanese baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Masaichi Kaneda, whose 400 wins are the most in the country’s pro baseball history, died Sunday morning in a Tokyo hospital of acute cholangitis at the age of 86. Kaneda, who turned pro in 1950 before he was 17, had a 20-year career. He […]

NEW YORK – Masahiro Tanaka held the visitors to a run over five innings on Saturday, while a grand slam from Didi Gregorius powered the New York Yankees to an 8-2 win over the Minnesota Twins for a two-game lead in the American League Division Series. The Japanese starter scattered […]

YOKOHAMA – Sometimes, you just have a feeling. Two years ago, Tomo Otosaka hit a big three-run home run for the Yokohama BayStars in the seventh inning of a road playoff win over the Hanshin Tigers. With that vision dancing around in his head, BayStars manager Alex Ramirez sent Otosaka […]