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The Yomiuri Giants were in a good position to win NPB’s interleague title for the first time since 2014 before a sixth-inning error and ensuing two-run home run spoiled it all at Tokyo Dome on Sunday afternoon. Even after that door slammed shut — courtesy of a 2-1 loss against […]

Kansas City, Missouri – Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 24th home run to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a series-clinching 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Ohtani’s two-run blast to right-center at Kauffman Stadium gave the Angels a 3-2 lead and was followed by Mike […]

Manabu Kitabeppu, baseball commentator and former ace pitcher for the Hiroshima Carp, died at a hospital in Hiroshima on Friday. He was 65. Kitabeppu joined the Carp in 1976. He secured double-digit wins for 11 consecutive seasons from 1978 thanks to his outstanding control, helping the team clinch back-to-back Japan […]

KANSAS CITY, Missouri – Two-way star Shohei Ohtani hit his MLB-leading 23rd home run Saturday, becoming the second Japanese to log 150 homers in the big leagues after Hideki Matsui, as the Los Angeles Angels suffered a 10-9 walk-off loss to the Kansas City Royals. Ohtani crushed a first-pitch changeup […]

Hall of Fame pitcher Shigeru Sugishita, who was best known for his mastery of what has become Japanese baseball’s trademark pitch, the forkball, has died, his former team, the Chunichi Dragons, said Friday. He was 97. Known as “the God of the forkball,” Sugishita won 215 career games, all but […]

Baseball is an unforgiving sport. Perseverance is not just a good quality for a hitter — it is essential. There is no other way to deal with the constant failure that goes hand-in-hand with trying to hit a baseball. It is hard enough to just make contact with the ball. […]

Shohei Ohtani shone on the mound and at the plate, Mickey Moniak delivered the tying hit and the go-ahead home run, and the Los Angeles Angels held on to beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 on Thursday in Arlington, Texas. The Angels won three of four in the series against the […]

Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture – Yuma Tongu and Yutaro Sugimoto belted ninth-inning solo home runs to bring the two-time defending Pacific League champion Orix Buffaloes from behind in a 3-2 interleague win over the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers on Thursday. Trailing 2-1 with one out against Tigers closer Atsuki Yuasa (0-2) […]

Arlington, Texas – Shohei Ohtani belted his American League-leading 21st home run and got multiple hits for the fourth straight game during the Los Angeles Angels’ 6-3 loss against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. While his team’s three-game winning run came to an end at Globe Life Field, Ohtani’s two-run, […]

The Oakland Athletics inched closer to a move to Las Vegas when the Nevada state assembly approved a bill providing public funding to assist in the construction of a new stadium on Wednesday. The assembly voted 25-15 in favor of providing $380 million in public funding toward the Athletics’ proposed […]