Jason Coskrey is a sports writer for The Japan Times. His primary focus is Japanese baseball, but he has also covered soccer, American football, boxing and basketball. He previously worked for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga. A native of Detroit, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
For Jason Coskrey's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Early on during Mike Bolsinger's latest start for the Chiba Lotte Marines, catcher Tatsuhiro Tamura noticed his pitcher shaking his head a little every now and then and didn't quite know what to make of it. "I thought it was kind of weird," Tamura joked ...
Takashi Ogino legged out the double and Shogo Nakamura drove in the run. As for Mike Bolsinger, well, he did the rest. Bolsinger went to the mound in the second inning with the Chiba Lotte Marines ahead by one run and made the slim advantage hold ...
Frank Herrmann is still putting his Harvard University education to good use. Just not in the way, and certainly not in the place, he expected. Herrmann left the prestigious Ivy League college with a degree in economics, but it's the lessons he learned on the ...
On Friday night at Tokyo Dome, the Seibu Lions and Yomiuri Giants each sent their ace to the mound, creating a marquee matchup of the Lions' Yusei Kikuchi vs. the Kyojin's Tomoyuki Sugano. Unsurprisingly, it drew some "major" attention. Sitting among the 45,533 fans were scouts ...
The pitching matchup between aces Yusei Kikuchi and Tomoyuki Sugano fizzled out early on Friday night. As for the Seibu Lions' lineup, well, they were as good as advertised. Shogo Akiyama led off the game with a home run to set the tone at the plate ...
It only took a handful of games for Matt Dominguez to become the biggest thing to hit the Chiba Lotte Marines since the Nazo no Sakana (Mysterious Fish) mascot. The fish burst onto the scene about this time last year and delighted Marines fans with ...
Danny Green watched the wild events at the end of regulation in Game 1 of the NBA Finals unfold like everyone else. Unlike everyone else, Green, a guard for the San Antonio Spurs, has the perspective of a nine-year NBA veteran who has won a ...
Nick Martinez entered his first interleague contest in Japan with an overwhelming sense of familiarity. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher said he'd watched so much tape of the Yomiuri Giants it "felt like I'd faced them before." As for pitching at Tokyo Dome, good ...
Some baseball fans carry a glove to a game hoping to catch a ball. Andy Brown is a little bit different. Brown doesn't go to games in search of foul balls. He carries some paint, a few brushes and other supplies. What he hopes to ...
It's a little ironic the only time Takuma Sato might really be able to slow down, as he prepares to defend his title in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, is when he's strapped into a car and about to take off in a machine ...
