Baseball

Neil Walker and some teammates pulled into Yankee Stadium at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, only to turn right back around for home when New York announced a six-hour postponement. The Yankees needed a jolt to get through the long, soggy day. Aaron Judge provided the first ...

Shogo Akiyama scored three runs on three hits, including a first-inning solo home run, while Hideto Asamura added a homer and three RBIs as the Seibu Lions topped the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 7-4 on Tuesday night. Coming into the game with a .325 batting ...

Christian Yelich cycled his way into the record book. Milwaukee's streaking slugger became the first major leaguer to hit for the cycle twice in one season against the same team, driving in four runs to lead the Brewers over the Cincinnati Reds 8-0 on Monday ...

Takumi Kuriyama hit a grand slam and helped the Seibu Lions widen their lead in the Pacific League with an 8-1 win against the second-place Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on Monday. With the victory, the Lions saw gained a magic number of 11 toward clinching the ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows may have lost against the Hiroshima Carp on Sunday, but all in all it was still a good week to be a Swallows fan. The team went 4-1-1 last week, and put a few more games between themselves and the Yomiuri ...

Tatsuya Imai came out on top in a rookie pitching duel Sunday as the Seibu Lions' lineup slugged early against the SoftBank Hawks for an 8-5 win in the Pacific League. Imai (5-4) fanned four and yielded three runs at MetLife Dome. The right-hander, who ...

AP Shohei Ohtani became the second Japanese major leaguer to hit 20 home runs in a single season when he connected for a solo shot during the Los Angeles Angels' 6-5 defeat against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. Right after teammate Mike Trout connected on a ...

With ski googles perched on his head, Michael Brantley stood in the middle of Cleveland's rocking clubhouse just a few steps from a bin overflowing with dozens of empty beer and champagne bottles. The party was in full swing on Saturday. So were the Indians. As ...

A seventh-inning solo homer by Ryosuke Hirata proved decisive as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp 7-5 on Saturday. Hiroshima battled back from a run down in the sixth to tie it at 5-5 before Hirata hammered a solo shot — his ...

Masahiro Tanaka threw six solid innings and picked up his 12th win as the New York Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 11-0 on Friday. Tanaka (12-5) struck out eight of the 24 batters he faced at Yankee Stadium for his third straight winning start. ...

Juri Hara pitched eight solid innings, drove in one run and scored another to lead the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to a 4-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday. With the win, the Swallows remained in second place in the Central League behind the Hiroshima ...

The New York Mets announced that third baseman David Wright will return for the team's final homestand on Sept. 29. The Mets said that they plan to activate Wright when they return to Citi Field on Sept. 25 against Atlanta. The 35-year-old is scheduled to play ...