Baseball

Nishinomiya, Hyogo Pref. – Veteran Hanshin Tigers reliever Kyuji Fujikawa will retire at the end of this season, the Central League club announced Monday. The 40-year-old right-hander, known for one of the most high-velocity fastballs in Japanese baseball, has 245 saves in a 22-year career spanning Nippon Professional Baseball and […]

Most of NPB’s teams hit the 60-game mark last week, meaning this coronavirus-shortened season is around its halfway mark. There should be, however, a little more urgency at the midpoint than in years past. There’s still a lot of season left, just not as much as usual. The 2020 season […]

Cincinnati – Yu Darvish kept the best winning streak of his major league career alive by claiming his sixth straight victory on Saturday as the Chicago Cubs split a doubleheader with the Cincinnati Reds. Darvish (6-1) tossed six scoreless innings in the first game at Great American Ball Park and […]

Phoenix – Andrew McCutchen has relished these past few days in the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse, having difficult, important conversations with baseball teammates about racial injustice. As a Black man in a sport that’s filled with mostly white and Hispanic players, he doesn’t feel it’s a burden to lead in the […]

Houston – The Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics jointly walked off the field following a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play on Friday night. The postponement came on Jackie Robinson Day across the majors, and in the wake […]

New York – The New York Mets and Miami Marlins jointly walked off the field after a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play Thursday night. After other games around baseball were postponed to protest social injustice, the Mets […]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Three Major League Baseball games were postponed Wednesday as players across the sports landscape drove the decisions in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin. Games between the Cincinnati Reds and Brewers in Milwaukee, Seattle Mariners and Padres […]

Buffalo, New York – Rowdy Tellez drove in four runs, and the Blue Jays bullpen provided Toronto’s injury depleted group of starters a much needed rest. And yet overshadowing Toronto’s 9-1 route of the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night were questions of whether both teams should have played as […]

Chicago – Lucas Giolito pitched the first no-hitter of the pandemic-delayed major league season, striking out 13 and permitting just one runner in leading the Chicago White Sox over the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 Tuesday night. With the seats at Guaranteed Rate Field empty, the hollers of his teammates echoed around […]

Cleveland – The Minnesota Twins are halfway to another division title. Now if they could just get fully healthy. Miguel Sano hit a two-run homer, Kenta Maeda struck out seven over five innings and Nelson Cruz connected for a solo shot to lead the injury-riddled Twins to a 3-2 win […]