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Takashi Ogino and Katsuya Kakunaka saw to it that pitcher Mike Bolsinger got his customary run support as the Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp 7-3 in interleague play on Saturday. Bolsinger (6-1) won his fifth straight start after allowing three runs ...
Chunichi Dragons rookie Raidel Martinez earned his first NPB win after early homers and late runs solidified a 10-4 victory against the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday. Martinez (1-1) retired the first 11 of 13 Carp batters before the right-hander gave up four runs at Nagoya ...
David Buchanan allowed five hits without a walk and drove in a run to help the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to an 8-0 win over the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp on Friday. Buchanan (3-1), who has yet to pitch less than six innings or allow more ...
Relatives and friends bid farewell to Sachio Kinugasa, a baseball Hall of Famer nicknamed "Iron Man," in a private funeral held in Tokyo on Wednesday. Mourners included former star pitcher Yutaka Enatsu, Kinugasa's teammate while with the Hiroshima Carp. A mourner was seen holding a ...
Carp whip BayStars, spoil starter Shota Imanaga's season debut
Right-hander Yuta Nakamura worked into the ninth inning for the Hiroshima Carp in Tuesday's 7-2 victory over the Yokohama BayStars. The BayStars, who upset the CL champion Carp last autumn in the playoffs, had two key players making their season debuts, lefty Shota Imanaga and ...
Hall of Famer Sachio Kinugasa, whose 2,215 consecutive games played remain a Japan pro baseball record, died of colon cancer Monday at 71, an informed source said. Nicknamed "Iron Man," Kinugasa played for the Hiroshima Carp from 1965 to 1987 and was the Central League's ...
Onelki Garcia allowed two runs over seven innings Sunday as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Hiroshima Carp 3-2 to complete a three-game sweep of the two-time defending Central League champions. Before a crowd of 35,576 at Nagoya Dome, the Cuban lefty struck out 10, while ...
Yuta Nakamura won his season debut, allowing one run over seven innings and also driving in a run to lead the Hiroshima Carp to a 3-2 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday. Pitching before 31,473 at Mazda Stadium, Nakamura struck out six, while ...
Left-handed rookie Haruto Takahashi threw two-hit ball over seven scoreless innings to earn a win in his debut Wednesday as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Hiroshima Carp 4-1. The second pick in the Tigers' 2017 draft class, Takahashi (1-0) fanned five of the 22 batters ...
Right-hander Edison Barrios allowed a run in 6-1/3 innings Saturday to help the Yokohama BayStars snap a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Hiroshima Carp. Barrios (1-1) held the Carp scoreless through six innings at Mazda Stadium, and Hiroki Minei's two-run homer ...
Chunichi Dragons fans chant 'Let the A-bomb drop' at baseball game in Hiroshima
During a recent baseball game in Hiroshima between the Chunichi Dragons and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, a group of Dragons fans were caught on video chanting "Let the atomic bomb drop." In the 20-second video uploaded to YouTube, believed to have been recorded during a ...
Kosuke Tanaka's two-run double broke a fifth-inning tie as the Central League champion Hiroshima Carp remained perfect for the season with an 8-3 win over the Chunichi Dragons on Sunday. Before 31,260 at Mazda Stadium, the Carp leadoff man doubled with two outs to break ...
