Buffaloes score with play, uniforms during mostly positive week on diamond
The Orix Buffaloes looked good last week. They also played reasonably well too, winning four of their seven games, despite ending on a losing note. The struggling Pacific League outfit went into ...
Giants stripping all mystery out of remainder of Central League campaign
After winning six games last week, the Kyojin have a 9½-game lead over the second-place Hanshin Tigers with fewer than 50 games remaining for each team.
NPB to begin allowing more fans on Sept. 19
It will be up to each club to decide how many fans will be allowed to attend their home games.
Hawks pitcher Dennis Sarfate facing up to reality career may be over due to injury
Sarfate isn't retiring yet, he says, but he knows he may have already thrown his last pitch.
NPB to scrap 'Tazawa Rule' on players skipping draft for majors
The decision will allow former MLB reliever Junichi Tazawa, who inspired the rule in 2008, to sign for an NPB club after returning to Japan in July.
Tigers still at square one with Shintaro Fujinami
Shintaro Fujinami gave up 11 runs — seven earned — in 4 2/3 innings on Saturday night. That's more than he’s ever allowed in his career and, per Daily Sports, more than any Hanshin pitcher has in a single outing. The loss dropped the second-place ...
Hanshin's Kyuji Fujikawa 'fired up' about quest to reach 250 saves before impending retirement
With five saves to collect before the NPB season ends in November, the 40-year-old right-hander is aiming to join an elite group of pitchers.
Drafted with the top pick by the Tigers out of high school in 1999, Fujikawa became renowned for his explosive "fireball" four-seam fastball.
Giants and Hawks in driver's seat at halfway mark in NPB
Despite the shortened schedule, there's still plenty to look forward to in the 2020 campaign.
Departed manager Norifumi Nishimura latest to fail to turn around Buffaloes
The three men who managed the Orix Buffaloes prior to Norifumi Nishimura — Akinobu Okada, Hiroshi Moriwaki and Junichi Fukura — had two winning seasons in a combined nine years in charge. They made just one trip to the postseason — in 2014 when Moriwaki's ...
Norifumi Nishimura to step down as manager of Orix Buffaloes
Farm manager Satoshi Nakajima, a former catcher, will take charge as acting manager.
Airing games in U.S. only first step in Pacific League's plan to take Japanese baseball abroad
For a nation so famous for its baseball exports — from Hideo Nomo to Shohei Ohtani — Japan hasn’t done a very good job at promoting Nippon Professional Baseball outside its own borders. The Pacific League, the more forward-thinking of NPB’s two leagues, could spark ...
