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World Baseball Classic winner Hotaka Yamakawa was referred to prosecutors Tuesday for allegedly raping a female acquaintance at a Tokyo hotel in November. The 31-year-old power-hitting infielder from the Seibu Lions was removed from the team on May 12, a day after weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported in its online […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani struck out nine in six innings of one-run ball in the Los Angeles Angels’ 4-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. The two-way star was removed from the mound with the game tied before Mickey Moniak hit a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh […]

Adam Walker hit a two-run homer and scored twice, helping the Yomiuri Giants to an early three-run lead in a 5-2 Central League win over the Chunichi Dragons on Sunday. The victory at Tokyo Dome was the Giants’ fifth straight and completed a two-game sweep of the last-place Dragons, who […]

ANAHEIM, California – Shohei Ohtani belted his 11th home run of the year Saturday but his Los Angeles Angels could not climb out of an early hole in a 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins. The Japanese two-way star launched a long ball to right-center field for a solo home […]

Foster Griffin is still in the early stages of his NPB career and has a lot to get used to in Japan. He will not have to spend much time learning about Chunchi Dragons. That’s one thing he has figured out already. Griffin had another strong showing against Chunichi, Takumi […]

Baltimore – Shohei Ohtani reached 10 home runs for the third straight season and beat out a late infield single to key the Los Angeles Angels’ 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. Ohtani’s first-inning homer made it 1-0 Angels at Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards. It was […]

Veteran shortstop Hayato Sakamoto hit a three-run homer to back a solid start by Kai Yokogawa as the Yomiuri Giants completed a three-game sweep of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows with a 6-3 win Thursday. Sakamoto’s sixth home run of the season, coming with two runners on base, broke a 1-all […]

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Futoshi Nakanishi, who helped the storied Nishitetsu Lions win three consecutive Japan Series titles through 1958, died of heart failure at his Tokyo home, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. He was 90. Nakanishi, whose death was confirmed on May 11, led the […]

New York – Kodai Senga fanned 12 over six commanding frames of one-run ball before his New York Mets rallied late to walk off with an 8-7, 10-inning win against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. Trailing 5-2 in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets tied it on Francisco […]

Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido – Naoyuki Uwasawa struck out nine over the distance for his first shutout in five years as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Seibu Lions 3-0 on Wednesday. Uwasawa (4-2) allowed four hits and two walks at Es Con Field Hokkaido outside Sapporo, for his fifth career […]