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HANSHIN TIGERS

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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 7, 2020
Tigers slugger Justin Bour heads home to U.S., not expected to return to team
Hanshin Tigers lefty slugger Justin Bour, who joined Nippon Professional Baseball in December, has returned to the United States the Central League club said Saturday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 27, 2020
Hanshin and Rakuten win rights for draft's coveted top prospects
The Tigers bested a crowded field to get first crack at Kindai slugger Teruaki Sato, while the Eagles won a fierce battle for Waseda pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 9, 2020
Hanshin president Kenji Ageshio to resign over coronavirus cluster infection
Three Tigers players tested positive in March while another group was infected in September.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Sep 28, 2020
Virus-hit Tigers endure tough, eventful week in Central League
The difference between playing a mostly representative NPB season — as opposed to 50 or 60 games — or having it all fall apart was always as tenuous as some dinner plans.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2020
Five Hanshin players test positive for coronavirus
Five Hanshin Tigers players, four from the Central League's club's top team, have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the club said Friday — before the team, minus the infected players and those deemed to have been in close contact them — took on the Yakult Swallows in Tokyo.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Sep 7, 2020
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.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2020
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.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2020
Tigers reliever Kyuji Fujikawa to retire at end of season
Drafted with the top pick by the Tigers out of high school in 1999, Fujikawa became renowned for his explosive 'fireball' four-seam fastball.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 31, 2020
Swallows' Keiji Takahashi outduels Tigers' Shintaro Fujinami
Unheralded lefty Keiji Takahashi pitched and fielded his position well over eight innings for the Yakult Swallows in a 6-0 Central League win over the Hanshin Tigers on Thursday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Jul 20, 2020
Tigers back on prowl in Central League
Their resurgence continued last week at Koshien Stadium, where Hanshin took two of three against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and swept the Chunichi Dragons.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Jul 13, 2020
Yuki Yanagita powers Hawks past Eagles in six-game series
With no All-Star Game, Yuki Yanagita held his own personal home run derby last week in Fukuoka.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 10, 2020
Tigers slugger Justin Bour goes deep in Koshien debut
Justin Bour homered in his home debut at historic Koshien Stadium, lifting the Hanshin Tigers to a 2-1 Central League victory over the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 23, 2020
Hanshin admits fans to test virus measures ahead of July start
The Hanshin Tigers admitted fans to a farm team game on Tuesday to test countermeasures against the novel coronavirus before Japanese pro baseball starts welcoming spectators in July.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 21, 2020
Kazuma Okamoto, Gerardo Parra lead Giants to series sweep of Tigers
Kazuma Okamoto and Gerardo Parra both recorded home runs at Tokyo Dome as the Kyojin ended their season-opening series unbeaten.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB Preview
Jun 19, 2020
Tigers could be ready to roar in 2020
The Hanshin Tigers are hoping the additions they made can help them capture the CL pennant this season.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2020
Seniors who missed out on Koshien to get dirt from ballpark
The decision by Hanshin and the stadium operator will give players the mementos denied to them following the cancellation of this year's tournaments.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 1, 2020
Giants and Tigers to clash on NPB's delayed opening day
NPB releases first part of revised schedule for Central and Pacific Leagues.
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MORE SPORTS
May 27, 2020
Pro athletes with underlying conditions remain extra cautious of COVID-19 threat
Professional athletes may seem invincible, but like anyone else they can suffer from serious conditions that make them vulnerable to the coronavirus.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 3, 2020
Former Hanshin pitcher Matt Keough dies at 64
Matt Keough, who won 45 games for the Central League's Hanshin Tigers from 1987-89 and whose father also played professionally in Japan, has died at the age of 64, MLB's Oakland Athletics said Saturday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 28, 2020
NPB shutdown robs fans of limited chances to see aging legends
With the delayed season expected to start behind closed doors, it's unclear when Japanese baseball's elder statesmen will receive cheers from packed stands again.

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