Baseball

Jabari Blash was in demand before the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles’ “home” game at Tokyo Dome on Thursday. When he came off the field after batting practice, a Rakuten staffer led him to a television crew that was waiting for him. When that was done, there was another TV crew […]

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – Two-way player Shohei Ohtani drove in a pair of insurance runs with a home run for the Los Angeles Angels in a 6-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday. With the Angels leading 2-0 in the sixth inning, Ohtani came up with one man on […]

KUMAMOTO – Kodai Senga allowed a run over seven innings to win his fifth straight start as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks exploited their opponent’s mistakes in a 2-1 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Saturday. Trailing 1-0 in the fifth inning, Go Kamamoto reached on a leadoff infield […]

WASHINGTON – Kris Bryant matched a career high with three home runs and drove in five as the Chicago Cubs routed the Washington Nationals 14-6 on Friday. Albert Almora Jr., Kyle Schwarber and Willson Contreras also homered to help the NL Central-leading Cubs snap a two-game skid. Javier Baez extended […]

CINCINNATI – Kenta Maeda fouled a ball off his left thigh in his last start, leaving a bruise that prompted the Los Angeles Dodgers to put him on the 10-day injury list. Maeda gave up only three hits and struck out a dozen batters in 6⅔ innings of a 2-0 […]

NAGOYA – Akiyoshi Katsuno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning of his first professional start on Friday but gave up three runs and took the loss as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Chunichi Dragons 4-1. Katsuno (0-1) pitched five dominant innings at Nagoya Dome until getting himself into a […]

Sitting in the Hanshin Tigers’ bullpen has given Pierce Johnson a chance to pick up some new things. Namely, his teammates have been teaching him some Japanese during their downtime, and he’s already imagining the possibilities of having a new language in his arsenal. “This is such a unique language […]

PHILADELPHIA – Christian Yelich took advantage of the few pitches he saw in the zone. Yelich hit his major league-leading 17th and 18th homers to help Zach Davies and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-3 Thursday. Yasmani Grandal and Mike Moustakas also went deep as the Brewers won […]

For a second, Shota Hiranuma thought he might’ve hit the first home run of his pro career. He came up a few centimeters short, but being responsible for the run that helped give his team a win isn’t a bad consolation prize. Hiranuma broke a scoreless tie with an RBI […]

LOS ANGELES – Kenta Maeda struck out 12 batters and drove in both runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Wednesday night. The right-hander gave up three hits in 6⅔ innings and reached double-digit strikeouts for the fifth time in the majors. He finished […]