Baseball

A day after the Japan High School Baseball Federation’s May 20 announcement that it was canceling this summer’s high school baseball tournament and regional championships due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the high school baseball federation of Ishikawa Prefecture started organizing its own regional championship, saying it will hand out 2,000 […]

NEW YORK – A rookie at the major league minimum would make a higher percentage of his salary than multimillionaire stars like Mike Trout or Gerrit Cole under a six-tier, sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players found « extremely disappointing.” Major League Baseball made the proposal to the players’ […]

Seoul – The Korean Baseball Organization has suspended ex-Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Kang Jung-ho for a year and ordered him to perform 300 hours of community service over a series drunk driving cases. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Monday the suspension for Kang, who last week filed to be reinstated […]

The Nippon Professional Baseball season, which has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, will begin June 19, the league announced on Monday. The decision comes after the government’s advisory panel approved the plan to end Japan’s nationwide state of emergency for the five prefectures still under the order, including Tokyo […]

Osaka – The Orix Buffaloes held an intrasquad game on Monday, with Nippon Professional Baseball targeting a late-June start for its coronavirus pandemic-delayed 2020 season. NPB had aimed to open its season on April 24 after previously pushing it back from its original start date of March 20. Earlier this […]

With the coronavirus pandemic interrupting professional baseball in Japan, the United States and elsewhere around the world, some diehard fans of the sport are getting their fix from an unlikely source. Thanks to successful local efforts to combat the spread of the pneumonia-causing virus, Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League was […]

The Washington Nationals said on Saturday they have altered plans for a virtual World Series championship ring ceremony amid the COVID-19 pandemic after players expressed a preference to receive the rings in person. The Nationals, who beat the Houston Astros last October to win their maiden World Series title, will […]

The Hiroshima Carp opened up some parts of Mazda Stadium on Thursday, allowing some lucky fans the chance to watch the Central League club work out during their first practice in nearly a month and a half. Fans were barred from preseason games in late February in Japan, and players […]

The J. League hit pause after one round. The B. League went dark with one-third of the season left. Japanese baseball hasn’t even started. Sports has been awash in postponements and cancellations in leagues around the world — the NBA got the ball rolling when it paused its season in […]

Japan’s annual Summer National High School Tournament at Koshien has been canceled amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said Wednesday. The decision not to hold the summer tourney is the first time since the World War II that it will not be held. The spring version also was canceled in […]