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Giants' Cristopher Mercedes earns complete-game victory over rival BayStars

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 2, 2018

Giants' Cristopher Mercedes earns complete-game victory over rival BayStars

Cristopher Mercedes allowed his first runs but remained unbeaten in four starts for the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday, when he threw a three-hitter in a 3-2 win over the Yokohama BayStars. The 24-year-old lefty struck out four and walked one while pitching a complete game. ...

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Nov 8, 2017

BayStars to bring back pitchers Joe Wieland, Spencer Patton

Starting pitcher Joe Wieland and reliever Spencer Patton have signed one-year contracts to return next season with the Yokohama BayStars, the Central League club announced Wednesday. The right-handers both made their NPB debuts this season, when the BayStars finished third in the league, but overcame ...

Hawks, BayStars get ready for pivotal Game 6

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Nov 3, 2017

Hawks, BayStars get ready for pivotal Game 6

by Jason Coskrey

One day after a win that made the Japan Series an actual, well, series, the Yokohama BayStars were back on the field in Fukuoka on Friday night. The odds of either of those things happening after the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks opened up a 3-0 lead ...

BayStars shake off opening losses as Japan Series moves to Yokohama

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 30, 2017

BayStars shake off opening losses as Japan Series moves to Yokohama

by Jason Coskrey

The Yokohama BayStars' Joe Wieland doesn't yet know if he'll be nervous to start in his first Japan Series game. "Ask me tomorrow," he said with a smile on Monday afternoon at Yokohama Stadium. "I'm OK right now." When it comes to his level of confidence ...

Different styles define Hawks, BayStars

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 28, 2017

Different styles define Hawks, BayStars

by Jason Coskrey

The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Yokohama BayStars had two very different paths to Game 1 of the Japan Series. The Hawks rampaged to 94-49 record, won this season's interleague title (with a 12-6 mark), and claimed the Pacific League pennant, their third in four seasons, ...

BayStars rout Tigers, move on to CL Climax Series Final Stage

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 17, 2017

BayStars rout Tigers, move on to CL Climax Series Final Stage

Joe Wieland allowed a run in seven innings to earn the win as the Yokohama BayStars beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-1 on Tuesday to advance to the final stage of the Central League Climax Series. Wieland, who was pitching his third game this year at ...

BayStars begin quest to reach Japan Series on the road against Tigers

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 13, 2017

BayStars begin quest to reach Japan Series on the road against Tigers

The Yokohama BayStars finished third in the Central League for the second straight season, and seek to do better than they fared in last year's postseason. To that end, the ballclub will count on two key pitchers' tendency to perform better away. Last year, the BayStars ...

Wieland makes big contribution as BayStars blank Tigers

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 25, 2017

Wieland makes big contribution as BayStars blank Tigers

Joe Wieland threw his first shutout in Japan and scored the opening run in the Yokohama BayStars' 7-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Monday. Wieland (9-2), batting eighth as Yokohama's pitchers have for most of the season, had the first of three one-out, third-inning ...

Kuramoto connects on sayonara double as BayStars beat Dragons

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 16, 2017

Kuramoto connects on sayonara double as BayStars beat Dragons

Toshihiko Kuramoto doubled home the game-ending run in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Yokohama BayStars came from behind to edge the Chunichi Dragons 3-2 on Wednesday. BayStars starter Joe Wieland did not figure in the decision but held the Dragons to two ...

Baseball | BASEBALL BULLET-IN Mar 11, 2017

BayStars look to replicate Carp's 2016 success

by Wayne Graczyk

Can the Yokohama BayStars become this year's Hiroshima Carp? It was the Carp who seemingly came from a so-so fourth-place finish in 2015 to win the 2016 Central League pennant by a whopping 17½ games. Hiroshima put together a team of veterans and young players, produced ...

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