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Shohei Ohtani had a three-run double and a solo home run, Andrew Heaney threw six scoreless innings and the visiting Los Angeles Angels defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1 Friday night at Dunedin, Florida. Jared Walsh added a two-run homer for the Angels, who have won the first two games […]

Shohei Ohtani drove in the tying run in the top of the seventh on Thursday as the Los Angeles Angels battled back to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 in an 11-inning duel. Batting second in the lineup as designated hitter, Ohtani stepped to the plate with his team trailing […]

Hard-throwing rookie Yasunobu Okugawa overcame a four-run first inning and a long rain delay to earn his first pro victory as the Yakult Swallows came from behind to beat the Hiroshima Carp 11-7 in the Central League on Thursday. The 19-year-old Okugawa (1-1), one of the stars of Japan’s 2019 […]

Los Angeles – Kenta Maeda earned a win before any other Japanese pitcher in MLB this season as the visiting Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday. Maeda (1-0), who settled for a no-decision on opening day, pitched six strong innings against the Tigers in the series finale […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani continued to look like his old self on Tuesday with two hits and his third stolen base of the season in the Los Angeles Angels’ 4-2 loss to the Houston Astros. Batting second as the designated hitter, the Japanese two-way star had a one-out single […]

The Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field will host July’s All-Star Game, Major League Baseball said on Tuesday, after the annual event was relocated from Atlanta in protest over Georgia’s new voting restrictions. MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred on Friday ordered the sport to relocate its 2021 All-Star Game after Georgia instituted the […]

Right-hander Masato Morishita was in command for the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday, throwing the first complete-game shutout of the Central League season in a 2-0 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Last year’s CL Rookie of the Year improved to 2-0 after striking out five, while allowing six hits and […]

Baseball fans packed the stands of Globe Life Field on Monday after the Texas Rangers opened their doors to 100% capacity, making the game the first North American sporting event without attendance restrictions since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team said it was a sellout, with 38,238 in […]

When Daisuke Miura was a pitcher for the BayStars, which he was for 25 seasons, the game was often in his hands. Of all the complexities that can go into winning and losing a baseball game, sometimes it was as simple as the way the ball flew out of Miura’s […]

Anaheim, California – Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani made his season debut as a pitcher Sunday night in a 7-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox, pitching two-hit ball into the fifth inning in a no-decision and homering in his first at-bat. Ohtani both hit and pitched in […]