Kazuto Taguchi held the Yokohama BayStars to a run on two hits over 7-2/3 innings and won his third straight start as the Yomiuri Giants secured a 5-2 victory in the Central League on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Taguchi (8-6), who had his first career ...
It didn’t take Luis Cruz very long to show Yomiuri Giants fans what they’d been missing for the past two months. Cruz, returning from an ankle injury, sparked a big inning with a two-run home run in his first at-bat and it was smooth ...
Kan Otake threw seven shutout innings as the Yomiuri Giants walloped the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9-0 in the Central League on Saturday. Otake (3-1) held Yakult to four hits and three walks, while striking out five in a 132-pitch outing, making the most of ...
For one night, it almost felt like old times for the Yomiuri Giants. Shinnosuke Abe and Hayato Sakamoto were hitting home runs and Tetsuya Utsumi was making sure the other team didn’t. Abe connected on a two-run shot, Sakamoto hit a solo blast and ...
Shinnosuke Abe made his belated season debut in style, hitting a go-ahead two-run home run in the Yomiuri Giants’ 3-2 win against the Orix Buffaloes as interleague action got underway Tuesday. With a runner on first and two outs in the sixth inning at ...
Shinnosuke Abe, who until this year was the highest-paid player in Nippon Professional Baseball, agreed to a 36 percent pay cut on Wednesday with the Yomiuri Giants. The 36-year-old Abe, a nine-time winner of the Central League’s Best IX Award at catcher, moved to ...
The Yomiuri Giants finally managed to cage the Hanshin Tigers once and for all. Next up is a good old-fashioned Tokyo showdown against their crosstown rivals, the Yakult Swallows. “Bring ’em on,” Giants pitcher Aaron Poreda said. Shinnosuke Abe picked up a pair of ...
Randy Johnson won 303 games, five Cy Young Awards, struck out 4,875 batters (second all time) and was recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Needless to say, the Big Unit knows his way around a mound. On Tuesday night in Chiba, Johnson, ...
Miles Mikolas is on a roll and he’s not ready for it to stop anytime soon. Mikolas delivered yet another strong outing, this time with a few family members in the stands, and Shinnosuke Abe gave him all the run support he needed in ...
Shintaro Fujinami is the one with the “W” next to his name, but his parents came away as the big winners. Fujinami retired all nine batters he faced, Shinnosuke Abe hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the sixth inning and the Central League All-Stars ...
Tuesday night was “Hisayoshi Chono Player’s Day” at Tokyo Dome, and it was only fitting the man of the hour stole the show. Chono hit a game-tying three-run triple in the sixth inning, then scored the tiebreaking run on Shinnosuke Abe’s sacrifice fly in ...
Yomiuri Giants catcher Shinnosuke Abe was deactivated with a strain in his left thigh, the Central League club announced Saturday. Abe, 36, was diagnosed with pulled muscles in the biceps behind his left thigh. The Giants’ former captain was registered as a position player ...
