Baseball

Cincinnati, Ohio – Yoshitomo Tsutsugo’s hot hitting put the Pittsburgh Pirates in command early before the Cincinnati Reds came back to claim a 9-5 win in their series opener on Monday. Tsutsugo ripped a solo home run in his first at-bat of the game at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park, […]

Sapporo – Ayumu Ishikawa tossed six shutout innings as the Pacific League-leading Chiba Lotte Marines claimed a 1-0 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Monday, moving 3½ games clear of the Orix Buffaloes. Ishikawa (3-2), who returned this month after having surgery on his right elbow in June, […]

Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani struck out 10 over eight strong innings but could not secure his 10th win Sunday as the Los Angeles Angels fell 3-2 to the Oakland Athletics in 10 innings. Showing no sign of the arm soreness that pushed back his start by two days, the […]

The Orix Buffaloes wore nicknames on the back of their uniforms on Saturday. Takahiro Okada, commonly known as “T-Okada,” kept things simple with just a capital “T” on his nameplate. Cleanup hitter Yutaro Sugimoto was a bit more creative, wearing his nickname “Raoh” (from the manga “Fist of the North […]

Major League Baseball slapped Chicago White Sox pitcher Mike Wright with a three-game suspension on Saturday for “intentionally” throwing at Shohei Ohtani a few nights prior. White Sox manager Tony La Russa was also hit with a one-game ban for arguing Wright’s ejection. Wright was thrown out of the contest […]

Los Angeles – Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani is back in the American League club’s starting rotation and will pitch against the Oakland A’s on Sunday. Ohtani missed his scheduled pitching start Friday because of a sore arm and manager Joe Maddon had considered shutting the Japanese star […]

Los Angeles – Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani will miss his scheduled pitching start on Friday because of a sore arm, and manager Joe Maddon said he’s not sure if Ohtani will start again this season. Maddon said the Angels weren’t shutting down Ohtani yet, and hope he’s […]

Arlington, Texas – Texas Rangers rookie Kohei Arihara equaled a career-worst when he gave up six runs in his team’s 7-2 loss to the Houston Astros on Wednesday. Arihara (2-4), who was expected to miss the rest of the 2021 season after having surgery for an aneurysm in his shoulder […]

Sendai – Takahisa Hayakawa allowed a run over 7⅔ innings as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Orix Buffaloes 4-1 in the Pacific League on Tuesday, ending their three-game losing skid. Hayakawa (8-5) allowed five hits and a hit batsman without a walk and fanned five in a 100-pitch […]

Seattle – Yusei Kikuchi put together five solid innings but got no decision due to a lack of run support as the Seattle Mariners went down 5-4 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. The lefty struck out eight and allowed one run on six hits and a walk at Seattle’s […]