Baseball

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – Kenta Maeda had his longest outing since his September 2021 elbow surgery but took his second loss of the season as the Minnesota Twins fell to the Chicago White Sox 4-3 Monday. San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish also had a bad day on the mound, while […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – Kenta Maeda had his longest outing since his September 2021 elbow surgery but took his second loss of the season as the Minnesota Twins fell to the Chicago White Sox 4-3 Monday. San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish also had a bad day on the mound, while […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani hit a two-run homer off compatriot Yusei Kikuchi, one of his two hits on Sunday, but grounded out for the final out of the Los Angeles Angels’ 12-11, 10-inning loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. In a matchup between graduates of Iwate Prefecture’s Hanamaki Higashi […]

St. Louis – Five Japanese reporters accompanied by still and broadcast cameras covered baseball’s opening day in St. Louis. Curiously, the only player on either team who was born in Japan was pitcher Yusei Kikuchi of the Toronto Blue Jays, whose first start would not come until the next series. […]

Miyazaki – Saitama Seibu Lions ace Kona Takahashi struck out 11 over eight innings to earn his first win of the season in a 3-0 Pacific League victory Saturday over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Takahashi (1-0), who last year asked the Lions to make him available to MLB teams through […]

Seattle – Shohei Ohtani made history again Wednesday as the first player to run afoul of MLB’s new pitch-timer rules as both a hitter and a pitcher, and said the rule’s implementation is still in a gray area. Starting this season, MLB pitchers have 20 seconds to begin their motion […]

Chiba – Roki Sasaki did not know what to expect from his first start of the NPB season. He had not pitched in a game since taking the mound for Samurai Japan against Mexico in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic in Miami on March 20. The Chiba Lotte […]

Boston Red Sox left fielder Masataka Yoshida had his third multihit game of the season in a 6-3 win over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday. The two-time Pacific League batting champion ran out an infield single in the second inning at Comerica Park in Detroit for his first hit since […]

Chiba – The Chiba Lotte Marines and Keisei Electric Railway are giving away complimentary train tickets worth ¥16,000 for every pitch Roki Sasaki throws at 160 kph (99 mph) or above during his starts at home this season. They had better prepare a lot of them. Sasaki struck out 11 […]

Shohei Ohtani pitched six solid innings and Logan O’Hoppe homered as the Los Angeles Angels defeated the host Seattle Mariners 4-3 Wednesday afternoon, taking two of three games in the series between the American League West rivals. Ohtani (1-0) allowed one run on three hits, with four walks and eight […]