Baseball

A pro-business group based in Texas, the Job Creators Network, has filed a federal lawsuit against Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, seeking $1 billion in punitive damages and $100 million in damages to local businesses. In April, MLB announced it would move the event […]

Round one goes to the Central League and, of all teams, the Chunichi Dragons. Interleague play kicked off across NPB last week, and the Dragons, who were in fifth place in the CL after the first-half of intraleague competition, are at the top of the standings. While the early part […]

Justin Smoak homered and drove in three runs to lift the defending Central League champion Yomiuri Giants past the Pacific League’s Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4-3 on Sunday in interleague action. Smoak singled in two first-inning runs off Tsuyoshi Wada (3-3), and after Kazuma Okamoto broke a 2-2 fifth-inning tie with […]

Oakland, California – Shohei Ohtani drove in a pair of runs and starter Alex Cobb dominated over seven innings Saturday as the Los Angeles Angels blanked the Oakland Athletics 4-0. A day after taking his first loss of the season as a pitcher, two-way star Ohtani returned to the lineup […]

OAKLAND, California – Shohei Ohtani took his first loss of the season Friday, giving up three runs over six-plus innings as the Los Angeles Angels fell 3-1 to the Oakland Athletics. A day after his scheduled start was postponed because of a traffic jam en route to the Oakland Coliseum, […]

Oakland, California – Shohei Ohtani batted second as the team’s designated hitter and went 0-for-3 with a walk instead of pitching in the Los Angeles Angels’ 5-0 loss against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday, after being forced to take public transportation to Oakland Coliseum. Ohtani was not scheduled to hit […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani blasted his 15th home run of the season Tuesday as the Los Angeles Angels ran away with an 11-5 win over the Texas Rangers. Batting second as designated hitter, the two-way star jumped on a 3-2 cutter from righty Brett de Geus and drilled it […]

Havanna – The Cuban Baseball Federation said on Tuesday the United States had granted it visas to participate in a qualifying tournament for the Tokyo Olympics that opens next week in Florida. The federation said it hoped to travel to Florida on Wednesday to play two preparatory games before the […]

Zelous Wheeler jogged out to his position for the fifth inning as the crowd roared for him at Tokyo Dome. Wheeler had some words for Yomiuri Giants pitcher Shosei Togo as he passed the mound and clapped his hands and tipped his cap as the cheers grew louder. It was […]

Oakland, California – Yusei Kikuchi got his first win in nearly a month and his second of the season Monday as the Seattle Mariners ended a six-game losing streak by beating the Oakland Athletics 4-2. Kikuchi (2-3) — who had not won a game since April 29 — set the […]