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ANAHEIM, California – Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 33rd home run as the Los Angeles Angels snapped their six-game losing streak with a wild 13-12, 10-inning victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday. The two-way star led off a three-run bottom of the ninth with a solo shot over […]

KITAHIROSHIMA, Hokkaido – Hiroto Kobukata singled in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-2 to extend their winning streak to eight games on Thursday. The Fighters lost their seventh consecutive game — and their […]

New York – The San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers will open the 2024 season with two games in Seoul on March 20 and 21, Major League Baseball and its players association said Wednesday. The Seoul Series will be the opener of the MLB regular season and will […]

Osaka – Chiba Lotte Marines ace Roki Sasaki struck out 14 batters over seven masterful innings of three-hit, one-run baseball to spur his team to a 5-3 win over the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes on Wednesday. The 21-year-old right-hander did not issue a walk over 104 pitches and was backed […]

Seattle – Shohei Ohtani failed to put a ball in play during Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game, but his experience was memorable nonetheless. The Los Angeles Angels’ pending free agent was greeted to a chorus of “welcome to Seattle” chants when he stepped into the box as the second hitter […]

Seattle – Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani vowed to deliver his maiden home run in his third All-Star outing on Tuesday night in Seattle, where he will bat second as the designated hitter for the American League but will not pitch. Ohtani received the most fan votes for […]

If the season ended today, the Los Angeles Angels would miss the playoffs for the ninth straight season. That includes all six seasons since signing Shohei Ohtani. The two-way superstar will become a free agent at the end of this season, and while he shed little light on what he […]

When it comes to thriving in Japanese baseball for a prolonged period, the most important thing for a player to learn is how to unlearn almost everything that came before. That was the advice DeNA BayStars slugger Neftali Soto received from former teammate Jose Lopez, who spent two seasons in […]

Boston – Masataka Yoshida belted his 10th home run in his seventh straight multiple-hit game to lift the Boston Red Sox past the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Sunday, helping his team win its fifth straight. Batting fifth as the designated hitter, Yoshida connected on a high, 1-2 four-seamer from Ken […]

Sendai – Rookie Masaru Fujii allowed a run in five innings and Hideto Asamura backed him with two home runs for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in their 5-1 Pacific League win Sunday over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. The come-from-behind victory at Sendai’s Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi was the Eagles’ […]