The Hiroshima Carp will have to wait another day to clinch their second straight Central League pennant after blowing a three-run lead in a 5-4 loss to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Saturday afternoon. The Carp, the NPB's best pinch-hitting team this season, got a ...
Pacific League elder statesman Seiichi Uchikawa scored the tying run and singled in the go-ahead run in a 6-2 NPB All-Star Series Game 1 victory over the Central League on Friday. Before 36,111 at Nagoya Dome, the 34-year-old Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star tied the ...
The following is the second of a two-part NPB preview beginning with the 2016 Central League champions. In order of predicted finish: Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2016: 89-52-2 (1st) The Carp won the CL by 17½ games last season, doing so with a plus-187 run differential. That's a wide ...
Garrett Jones might have felt a huge weight lifted off his shoulders over the past two nights at Tokyo Dome. In two games against the Chunichi Dragons this week, on Wednesday and Thursday, the Yomiuri Giants outfielder was 4-for-8 with a home run and eight ...
The Hiroshima Carp have strived for the moment for 25 years, and their fans are full of emotion about the team's long-awaited league championship. On Saturday night, the Hiroshima Carp finally sealed the deal, winning their first Central League pennant since 1991 with a 6-4 ...
Kris Johnson took over the Central League lead in wins, allowing two runs in six innings before the Hiroshima Carp battered the Yokohama BayStars bullpen in an 8-2 win on Tuesday night. The Carp, who are chasing their first CL pennant since 1991, remain 11 ...
The Hiroshima Carp, it seems, have arrived. After a long stretch of bad years and recent seasons of being a few pieces short of a whole, the Carp are finally in the thick of a pennant race again. The team has the best record in ...
Hiroshima batters erupted for four runs in the sixth inning to power the Carp to a 7-3 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Wednesday. The Carp saw their magic number to win the Central League pennant lit at 20 with the victory. Shinnosuke Abe opened ...
At this time two years ago, the Hiroshima Carp were the toast of the Central League. They were hitting well, pitching even better and at 27-15 had the best record in the CL. It looked, early on, like the team might be on track ...
There aren't many ways to fool Brad Eldred any more. Eldred has been in Japan for four seasons and is currently working on a fifth with the Hiroshima Carp, so he's almost seen it all. The majority of Eldred's time has been spent playing the ...
The Pacific League on Wednesday announced it will hold an emergency session of its board of directors after two of its clubs, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Seibu Lions, admitted that players exchanged cash after wins and losses. A week after the specter of players ...
The Swallows fans packed into the stands at Jingu Stadium had already been cheering about as loud as they had all season for the past four hours But when Yuhei Takai hit a ball that squirted past the first-base bag and into right field, they ...
