London – Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the third round at Wimbledon for the 16th time on Wednesday, while rival Andy Murray suffered the earliest exit of his career at the All England Club. The top-seeded Djokovic brushed aside 79th-ranked Thanasi Kokkinakis of Australia 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 and will now […]
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Munetaka Murakami powers Swallows to win over Carp
Hiroshima – Yakult Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami blasted back-to-back two-run homers and went deep for the third straight game as the Central League-leading team hammered the Hiroshima Carp 9-2 on Wednesday. The 22-year-old slugged his 28th home run of the season off Hiroshima pitcher Yasunori Kikuchi in the eighth inning, […]
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MLB suspends 12 in connection with Angels-Mariners brawl
A total of 12 members of the Los Angeles Angels and Seattle Mariners were suspended by Major League Baseball on Monday night for their roles in a benches-clearing brawl at Angel Stadium a day earlier. Angels manager Phil Nevin was suspended for 10 games and Mariners outfielder Jesse Winker received […]
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Former Reds outfielder Shogo Akiyama to return to NPB with Carp
The Hiroshima Carp have signed former Cincinnati Reds outfielder Shogo Akiyama, the Central League club said Monday, beating competition from his former team, the Seibu Lions, and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Multiple sources close to the matter said the team has agreed to a three-year contract with Akiyama, who had […]
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Struggling Yusei Kikuchi knocked out early in loss to Brewers
Yusei Kikuchi made an early exit following another difficult start Saturday, lasting just two-plus innings of the Toronto Blue Jays’ 5-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. The left-hander was charged with the loss after giving up five runs, two earned, and leaving with none out in the third at Milwaukee’s […]
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Orix’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto follows no-hitter with 8 shutout innings
Chiba – Yoshinobu Yamamoto battled the wind but hung on to strike out nine over eight scoreless innings as the defending Pacific League champion Orix Buffaloes shut out the Chiba Lotte Marines for the second straight day Saturday in a 4-0 win. Yamamoto (8-3), who threw the season’s fourth no-hitter […]
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Shohei Ohtani sets career high with 13-strikeout performance in Angels’ win over Royals
Shohei Ohtani threw eight scoreless innings, allowed just two hits and struck out a career-high 13 to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a 5-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday night. The performance came one night after Ohtani homered twice and drove in eight […]
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Adam Walker powers Giants to victory with tiebreaking home run
On a night of dueling home runs at Tokyo Dome, Adam Walker had the final say. Walker hit a solo homer to deep center to break a seventh-inning tie, and the Yomiuri Giants held on for a 5-4 win over the DeNA BayStars at the Big Egg on Wednesday night. […]
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Shohei Ohtani homers twice, drives in career-high eight runs in loss
Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani delivered two three-run homers and drove in a career-high eight runs Tuesday before the Los Angeles Angels came up agonizingly short in a 12-11, 11-inning loss to the Kansas City Royals. Ohtani sent it to extra innings by tying the game 10-10 with his one-out, […]
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Dragons end Yakult’s eight-game winning run in walk-off
Nagoya – Pinch-hitting Taiki Mitsumata drove in the 10th-inning walk-off run as the Chunichi Dragons came from behind to beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2-1 Tuesday, ending the Central League-leading club’s eight-game winning streak. Singles from Ariel Martinez and Hayato Mizowaki on either side of an intentional walk from Ryuta […]