Eddie Rosario hit a line drive up the middle to score Dansby Swanson and give the Atlanta Braves their second straight walk-off win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday. The Braves, who had to rally from two-runs down twice to […]
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Lions rookie Yutaro Watanabe outduels Eagles’ Masahiro Tanaka
Rookie Yutaro Watanabe threw six scoreless innings, and Takeya Nakamura launched a two-run home run for the Seibu Lions, who survived a late rally to beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 6-5 on Sunday. Watanabe (4-4) exited with the fifth-place Lions in command 6-0 at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi as […]
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Departing Fighters manager helped Shohei Ohtani find his footing
Shohei Ohtani did not want to be selected in the October 2012 NPB draft. He even said so beforehand — warning teams to stay away because he was headed straight from Hanamaki Higashi High School to MLB. It wasn’t an empty threat. No one was blind to Ohtani’s talent as […]
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Did baseball arrive in Japan one year earlier than commonly believed?
Baseball’s arrival on Japan’s shores should be viewed to have been in 1871 — one year earlier than is commonly thought in Japan — a British historian argues, based on two separate contemporary English newspaper articles from the time about a game played that year in Yokohama. Next year is […]
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Koki Ugusa ignites Carp in big win over struggling Giants
Rookie Koki Ugusa triggered a four-run first inning with a leadoff home run and the Central League’s fourth-place Hiroshima Carp held on to beat the third-place Yomiuri Giants 8-7 on Saturday. The win at Tokyo Dome kept the Carp’s hopes of seizing a playoff berth alive as they moved to […]
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Shohei Ohtani’s mentor Hideki Kuriyama to step down as Fighters manager
Sapporo – Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama, who orchestrated Shohei Ohtani’s development as a two-way star and won the most games in franchise history, announced Saturday that he will step down at the end of the season. Kuriyama, 60, steered the Fighters to his first Pacific League pennant in […]
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Hirokazu Sawamura flat in MLB playoff debut as Astros beat Red Sox
Houston – Japanese right-hander Hirokazu Sawamura made his major league postseason debut for the Boston Red Sox on Friday, struggling to get one out in a 5-4 loss to the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox took a 3-1 lead after a […]
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Dodgers outlast Giants to advance to NLCS
Cody Bellinger hit a one-out, go-ahead single in the top of the ninth inning to help send the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Game 5 of the NL Division Series on Thursday in San Francisco. In […]
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Roki Sasaki wins marquee clash as Marinesas Marines beat first-place Buffaloes
Osaka – Roki Sasaki struck out eight over six scoreless innings to outpitch fellow rookie Hiroya Miyagi and lead the Chiba Lotte Marines to a crucial 6-1 win over the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes on Thursday. The win at Orix’s Kyocera Dome Osaka moved second-place Lotte to within a half-game […]
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Roki Sasaki wins marquee clash as Marines beat first-place Buffaloes
Osaka – Roki Sasaki struck out eight over six scoreless innings to outpitch fellow rookie Hiroya Miyagi and lead the Chiba Lotte Marines to a crucial 6-1 win over the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes on Thursday. The win at Orix’s Kyocera Dome Osaka moved second-place Lotte to within a half-game […]