In their 83 years of existence, the Yomiuri Giants have never had a stretch quite this bad. The rapidly sinking Kyojin reached new depths on Wednesday night after Shingo Ishikawa struck out to end a 3-0 loss to the Seibu Lions at MetLife Dome. ...
Tomoyuki Sugano made quick work of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to pick up his fifth win of the season, striking out six and allowing one run in eight innings as the Yomiuri Giants won 5-1 Tuesday. The Giants needed just 2 hours, 16 minutes ...
Kosuke Fukudome just had a feeling. The Hanshin Tigers veteran’s first trip to the plate ended with a called third strike. So the bat that had remained on his shoulder in the first inning was left in the dugout when Fukudome strode to the ...
The Yomiuri Giants trailed the Chunichi Dragons for 8 2/3 innings on Saturday afternoon. When Shinnosuke Abe finally gave them the lead, it was for keeps. Abe ended the second game of the season with a sayonara three-run home run that gave the Giants ...
There’s a stuffed Giabbit doll headed Lillianne Mikolas’ way. If things go her father’s way, there’ll be whole lot more coming. Miles Mikolas threw seven solid innings, Shinnosuke Abe and Hayato Sakamoto hit two-run home runs, and the Yomiuri Giants made a winning start ...
There were a number of NPB stars on the move during the first week of 2017. With spring camps set to begin in February, some players are heading abroad in order to put the finishing touches on their pre-spring preparations. This despite many of ...
The BayStars turned the music up. Way up. It didn’t matter that a wall separated the clubhouse from the room where manager Alex Ramirez was meeting with the media after a triumphant showing in the first stage of the Central League Climax Series on ...
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 ...
