Seiichi Uchikawa drove in two runs and scored the tiebreaking run as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-3 on Saturday in the opener of their best-of-three Pacific League Climax Series First Stage. Before 36,077 at Yafuoku Dome, homers from Uchikawa cut ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines find themselves in a familiar position, in third place and staring at a best-of-three playoff challenge on the road. The Marines have been here in three of manager Tsutomu Ito's four years at the Lotte helm. In 2010, under former skipper ...
There were home runs, some great plays, a few not-so-great plays and a host of other things in between. There just wasn't a winner. Shohei Otani had three hits, including a home run, for the Pacific League, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo had two hits and a homer for ...
Hideaki Wakui went the distance and Yamaico Navarro drove in four runs as the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines defeated the Pacific League-leading Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 9-6 on Monday evening. Wakui (7-3) didn't allow the Hawks much until the seventh inning, when he was sitting on ...
Kona Takahashi worked six innings to earn his first win of the season as the Seibu Lions beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 2-1 in the Pacific League on Thursday and dealt former Lion Hideaki Wakui his first defeat of the season. Takahashi (1-1) allowed a ...
A pair of first basemen, the Seibu Lions' Ernesto Mejia and the Chunichi Dragons' Dayan Viciedo, grabbed the first monthly honors of the Nippon Professional Baseball season on Tuesday. On the pitchers' side, Pacific League honors went to the Chiba Lotte Marines' Hideaki Wakui and ...
Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander Hideaki Wakui secured his fifth win of the season to top the Pacific League in wins on Friday afternoon, holding the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to two runs over seven innings in a 4-3 victory. By the fifth inning, Wakui (5-0) ...
Hideaki Wakui won his fourth straight start as the Chiba Lotte Marines prevailed 9-2 on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Wakui (4-0), the Pacific League leader in victories, allowed two runs on seven hits and three walks over ...
Nagekomi is a term familiar to most Japanese baseball fans. Even in the normally taxing Japanese baseball spring training menu, nagekomi, used in baseball to refer to marathon bullpen sessions, stands out as one of the most strenuous. It's also among the most perplexing in ...
Hideaki Wakui's fresh start with the Chiba Lotte Marines hit a rough patch on Wednesday, when the right-hander surrendered eight runs in five innings in a 12-5 preseason loss to the Yomiuri Giants. The 27-year-old former Lions ace joined Lotte in the offseason as a ...
Thirty-eight pitches. That's the number Hideaki Wakui of the Seibu Lions tossed in Tuesday night's game against the Chiba Lotte Marines. You may see him throw as many as that in the reminder of the season. But probably not as a starter. Wakui was handed a ...
