Lions ace Takayuki Kishi prevented the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters from walking over Seibu to the Pacific League pennant in a 3-0 win on Tuesday evening. Before 27,158 at Seibu Prince Dome in Saitama Prefecture, Kishi (9-7) allowed four hits over seven innings, striking out seven, five looking, while walking ...
Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was a patron at a Miami River bar and restaurant the same night he and ...
Dee Gordon and the Miami Marlins wore their emotions on the sleeves of their No. 16 jerseys. Jose Fernandez would ...
Investigators are trying to determine whether Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was at the wheel of his sportfishing boat when it slammed into a jetty in the early-morning darkness, killing him and two others on board. The three men died when the 9.75-meter SeaVee ...
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters moved within one win of capturing the Pacific League pennant after a 4-3 win over the Orix Buffaloes in the Pacific League on Monday night. The win was coupled with a defeat for the second-placed Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, who ...
Japanese baseball is in the season of goodbyes. There are only a handful of games left for each of the 12 NPB clubs, and this is the time of year when teams and fans begin to bid farewell to some familiar faces. No one ...
Sprayed champagne and beer flooded the blue carpet in the Dodgers clubhouse. The stench of alcohol hung in the damp air. Wives, kids and a puppy were in on the party with music blaring. The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated clinching their fourth straight NL ...
Jose Fernandez, the ace right-hander for the Miami Marlins who escaped Cuba to become one of baseball’s brightest stars, was killed in a boating accident early Sunday morning. Fernandez was 24. Authorities said Fernandez was one of three people killed in a crash off ...
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters’ magic number is down to three after they beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 2-1 in 11 innings and the second-place Fukuoka Softbank Hawks lost 7-5 to the Seibu Lions on Sunday. The Fighters won their record 84th game ...
Retiring Chiba Lotte Marines star Saburo Omura had only one season in which he hit above .300 and just one 20-homer campaign, with both marks coming in 2009. Overall, he was a career .265 hitter with 1,363 hits and 127 homers with just a ...
Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez is wearing two hats as the regular season winds down. One one hand, Ramirez is trying to guide the BayStars to wins in their final two games of the season to keep alive their hopes of overtaking the Yomiuri ...
Elvis Andrus had been dealing with flu symptoms and kept his celebration rather subdued after the Texas Rangers clinched the AL West, so he asked manager Jeff Banister afterward to please put him in the lineup again Saturday. He promised to be ready to ...
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters reduced their magic number to five and tied a franchise record with 83 victories in a 4-1 win against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Saturday. The Fighters improved to 83-52 to stay in first in the Pacific League, ...
Reserve catcher Steve Clevenger was suspended for the rest of the season without pay Friday by the Seattle Mariners in the wake of his tweets regarding a recent police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Black Lives Matter movement. “As soon as we ...
Adrian Beltre and the Texas Rangers were subdued as they began the celebration, exchanging hugs near the pitcher’s mound at Oakland Coliseum. Things got more raucous in the clubhouse, with cigar smoke and champagne everywhere. The Rangers are getting pretty good at this division ...
