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San Diego – Right-hander Yu Darvish tossed seven strong innings but was tagged with the loss Wednesday after getting little offensive support in the San Diego Padres’ 3-1 defeat to the Chicago Cubs. In his 13th start this season, Darvish (6-2) struck out eight, while allowing two runs on three […]

Pitcher Shun Yamaguchi has reached an agreement to return to the Yomiuri Giants in NPB’s Central League after terminating his contract with a San Francisco Giants minor-league affiliate, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. Yomiuri is expected to soon announce its signing of the 33-year-old right-hander, the […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani went deep in the first inning, crushing his 17th home run of the season 470 feet (143 meters) to right field in the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday. According to MLB’s Statcast tracking system, the two-run homer at […]

Melbourne – Australia has pulled out of the final baseball qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Olympics due to “insurmountable” challenges amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the sport’s national governing body said. The decision comes less than a week after Taiwan’s withdrawal from the June 22-26 tournament in Puebla, Mexico, which […]

A few hours after the United States national baseball team qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, two players expected to be key members of Samurai Japan’s Olympic effort returned to the field in NPB. Yomiuri Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano and Hiroshima Carp outfielder Seiya Suzuki might have been a little rusty […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani crushed his 16th home run of the season Saturday off countryman Yusei Kikuchi, who made an early exit from the Los Angeles Angels’ 12-5 win over the Seattle Mariners after being hit in the leg by a groundball. Despite falling behind 1-0 on Ohtani’s first-inning […]

The United States baseball team won a spot in the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Venezuela 4-2 on Saturday and securing the best record in the Americas qualifier tournament. Team USA will join reigning champion South Korea, host Japan and underdogs Israel and Mexico in the Olympics. A final spot will […]

Takeya Nakamura, Hotaka Yamakawa and Wu Nien-ting homered in the ninth inning on Saturday to power the Pacific League’s Saitama Seibu Lions to a 6-3 come-from-behind interleague win over the Central League’s Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Nakamura led off the ninth at Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium with his fifth home run, off […]

Home runs by Justin Upton and Jose Rojas, and six strong innings by Shohei Ohtani led the Los Angeles Angels to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday in Anaheim, California. But it was the performance by reliever Raisel Iglesias that saved the day for the Angels. Iglesias […]

Los Angeles – Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, who plays for the Triple A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, revealed that he will return to Japan in an Instagram post on Wednesday. The 33-year-old signed a minor-league deal with the Giants in February and has played for the Sacramento River Cats. […]