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Sunday’s professional baseball game between the Saitama Seibu Lions and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan’s Pacific League was postponed on Saturday after four more Fighters players tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total within the team to 10. Infielders Ronnie Rodriguez and Yuto Takahama, outfielder Yuma Imagawa and catcher […]

The Chunichi Dragons beat the Yomiuri Giants with a great performance on the mound on Friday. On Saturday afternoon, they got their bats going. Dayan Viciedo hit a two-run homer to help the Dragons build a big lead and Yohei Oshima drove in a pair of insurance runs with a […]

San Diego – Yu Darvish struck out 12 over 6⅓ innings and improved to 3-1 on Friday as the San Diego Padres held off the National League West-leading San Francisco Giants 3-2. Darvish walked three, hit a batter, and surrendered four hits, including a solo home run to Giants catcher […]

Wednesday marked three months until the start of the Tokyo Olympic baseball tournament — assuming the coronavirus doesn’t blow another fastball past the organizers, who, if we’re being honest, are probably sitting on a 2-2 count at best. Let’s assume, however, the games will take place. The original plan for […]

Yusei Kikuchi pitched one-hit ball over seven shutout innings to earn his first win of the season on Thursday as the Seattle Mariners beat the Houston Astros 1-0 to snap a four-game skid. In his fifth start of the year, Kikuchi (1-1) flirted with a no-hitter against the American League’s […]

Orix Buffaloes ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles starter Takahiro Norimoto went toe-to-toe Wednesday in a Pacific League pitching duel that ended with five total hits and no runs. The scoreless tie came a day after the two sides opened their series with a 5-5 stalemate at Kyocera […]

Los Angeles – Right-hander Kenta Maeda gave up three homers in taking his second loss of the season as the slumping Minnesota Twins were beaten 7-4 by the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday. Maeda (1-2) was charged with five runs, including two homers by Franmil Reyes and a homer and an […]

Yudai Ono threw eight innings of two-hit, one-run ball and earned his first win of the season Tuesday as the Chunichi Dragons came back to beat the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers 2-1. Takuya Kinoshita broke the tie with one out in the bottom of the seventh at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, […]

Arlington, Texas – Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani picked up his first MLB win in nearly three years and also contributed offensively in the team’s 9-4 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday. Ohtani (1-0), who was hitting and pitching in the same game for the second time […]

Arlington, Texas – Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani picked up his first MLB win in nearly three years and also contributed offensively in the team’s 9-4 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday. Ohtani (1-0), who was hitting and pitching in the same game for the second time […]