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Shohei Ohtani slugged his 20th and 21st homers of the season Friday, the fourth multi-homer game of his career, as the Los Angeles Angels blew out the Detroit Tigers 11-3 in Anaheim, California. Ohtani’s 400-foot shot in the fifth inning left the bat at 114 mph before clearing the wall […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani earned his third win of the season after holding the Detroit Tigers to a run over six innings to help the Los Angeles Angels snap their three-game losing skid with a 7-5 win on Thursday. Ohtani (3-1) allowed five hits, a walk and hit a […]

Yomiuri Giants first baseman Justin Smoak is returning to the United States because his family was unable to join him in Japan and will be put on waivers, the Central League club said Thursday. In a comment released by the team in Japanese, Smoak, a first-year import, said his situation […]

Oakland – Shohei Ohtani hit his 19th home run of the season and stole his 10th base of the year on Wednesday, but the Los Angeles Angels blew an early lead in an 8-4 loss that allowed the Oakland Athletics to complete a series sweep. The Angels led by four […]

Atsunori Inaba was hired to manage Samurai Japan in 2017 with the expectation the first-time skipper would grow into the job over the ensuing years and deliver baseball-mad Japan its first Olympic gold medal in the sport at the Tokyo Games. He won his first international competition in 2017 and […]

Hiroshima Carp rookie Koki Ugusa’s two-run home run snapped an eighth-inning tie in a 5-3 interleague win over the Pacific League’s Saitama Seibu Lions on Tuesday, snapping two long losing streaks. The win at Hiroshima’s Mazda Stadium ended an eight-game losing streak for the Carp and guaranteed that the CL […]

Major league pitchers who are accustomed to using any of a number of sticky substances to get a better grip on the baseball reportedly have about a week to discontinue the practice — or face a suspension. Citing unnamed sources on Monday, ESPN reported that Major League Baseball on Tuesday […]

The Orix Buffaloes made the most of interleague play. The Kansai club limped into the interleague slate three games under .500 and in fifth place in the Pacific League standings. What followed was a 12-5-1 run against the Central League from May 25 to June 13. The Buffaloes won the […]

Phoenix – Yusei Kikuchi allowed just three hits over seven shutout innings Saturday but was denied his fourth win of the year after the Seattle Mariners collapsed late in a 5-4 loss to the Cleveland Indians. Kikuchi gave his club another quality start at Cleveland’s Progressive Field, striking out six […]

Shohei Ohtani allowed two runs over five innings and doubled twice to help the Los Angeles Angels earn a 6-5 win in 10 innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the opener of the three-game series on Friday night in Phoenix. Ohtani struck out eight and walked two and yielded five […]