The Yokohama BayStars won their second elimination game of the postseason, beating the Hiroshima Carp 3-0 in Game 3 of the Central League Climax Series Final Stage on Friday. Four days after winning the do-or-die Game 3 of the first stage against the Yomiuri Giants, ...
Yusuke Nomura threw six shutout innings and Kosuke Tanaka scored three runs Thursday to put the Hiroshima Carp on the verge of their first Japan Series since 1991. Before 31,264 at Mazda Stadium, Tanaka reached base and scored his first two times up, and then ...
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 ...
Yokohama BayStars fans on Monday celebrated their team's win over the Yomiuri Giants after their three-game series at Tokyo Dome to advance to the final stage of the Central League Climax Series. "This was by far the best first stage ever in the 10 years ...
The roar of the fans in the stands after the final out could probably be heard all the way to Hiroshima. Very soon, the Yokohama BayStars players will be trying to make their voices heard there as well. Yokohama's Hiroki Minei, who played in only ...
Yomiuri Giants infielder Luis Cruz, who was deactivated prior to the start of the Central League Climax Series First Stage, practiced with the top team at Tokyo Dome on Monday ahead of the decisive third game against the Yokohama BayStars. "I feel good," Cruz said. ...
The Yomiuri Giants survived a few close calls in a tense game that could've gone either way to keep their season alive. Their reward is a chance to do it all over again. Starter Kazuto Taguchi and reliever Scott Mathieson kept the Giants in the game ...
Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez said he wanted to keep things as close to normal as he could in the team's Climax Series debut. Yoshitomo Tsutsugo hitting a big home run is pretty much as normal as it gets for the BayStars this year. Tsutsugo erased ...
Alex Ramirez has a season's worth of information at his disposal as he prepares to lead his Yokohama BayStars against the Yomiuri Giants in the first stage of the Central League Climax Series. The one thing the manager won't have when he hands in his ...
The Yokohama BayStars, the only team that had not yet played in the Climax Series since the postseason format was introduced in 2007, are up against a postseason regular, the Yomiuri Giants, as their best-of-three first-stage series begins Saturday at Tokyo Dome. Under first-year manager ...
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows gathered near the mound at Jingu Stadium, grabbed Mitsuru Manaka and tossed their first-year manager into the air as the cheers of their exuberant fans rang out into the night sky. The Birds were celebrating the club's first Central League Climax ...
Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans were singing in the rain on Friday night at Jingu Stadium. If their club can come up with one more win, the Yakult faithful will carry their tune all the way to Fukuoka. The Swallows broke through against Giants starter Tomoyuki ...
