Tadahito Iguchi, who homered in the last game of his career last weekend, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch for his former major league team the Chicago White Sox, the club said Monday. Iguchi, who joined the White Sox in 2005 when they won ...
Tadahito Iguchi had insisted that one of the reasons why he was hanging up his cleats was that he could no longer hit home runs as often as he used to. But in the final game of his prolonged professional career, Tadahito Iguchi hit one ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines have asked Tadahito Iguchi, who is set to retire as a player this season, to become manager of the Pacific League club, an informed source said Saturday. If Iguchi accepts the post, he would become the first Japanese with experience playing ...
Kodai Senga picked up his career-best 13th win by holding Chiba Lotte to one earned run on six hits and two walks in seven innings as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the Marines 2-1 on Saturday for their eighth consecutive victory. Senga, who struck out ...
Fukuoka SoftBank southpaw Tsuyoshi Wada struck out nine in six scoreless innings to lead the Hawks to a 3-0 victory over the Chiba Lotte Marines, winning his first game back from elbow surgery on Sunday. Wada (3-0), who started for the first time since April ...
Hall of Fame catcher Tsutomu Ito said Sunday he will step down as manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines at the end of the season. Ito, in his fifth year at the helm of the Pacific League club, has finished third in three of his ...
Takahiro Norimoto won a scintillating pitchers' duel with Rick van den Hurk, before the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles added on a few more runs against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' bullpen during a 4-1 win on Wednesday. Norimoto (10-2) allowed one run over eight ...
Jason Standridge threw seven innings and four relievers completed a six-hit shutout as the Chiba Lotte Marines blanked the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4-0 in the Pacific League on Tuesday afternoon. Standridge (2-4) scattered five singles and two walks while striking out three against the ...
Shota Takeda allowed a hit over six innings, and three relievers completed the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' 2-0, one-hit shutout of the Chiba Lotte Marines on Saturday. Takeda (2-1) struck out eight, walked a batter and hit two to guide the Hawks to their fifth straight ...
Chiba Lotte Marines infielder Tadahito Iguchi announced Tuesday he is drawing the curtain on his 21-year career at the end of the season. "I had decided last year. I want to show what my baseball career has been about in the remaining limited number of ...
After beginning interleague play in the middle of what would become an historic low, the Yomiuri Giants are poised to end the annual midseason competition on a high note. Kazuto Taguchi pitched a four-hit shutout, Casey McGehee drove in two runs and the Giants routed ...
After watching Wily Mo Pena give them what they hope is a taste of things to come, the Chiba Lotte Marines fans in the visitor's section at Tokyo Dome could only stand and applaud. And that was just for batting practice. Pena, who signed with the ...
