Shota Imanaga struck out seven over as many shutout innings as the second-year lefty picked up his 10th win of the season in the Yokohama BayStars' 4-1 victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Thursday. Imanaga (10-5) got early run support, with sluggers Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and ...
Over the past weekend in Japan, the only thing hotter than the weather, was the play of a trio of foreign NPB stars. None may have been hotter than Japhet Amador. The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger caught fire for the Pacific League leaders over ...
Jose Lopez went 5-for-5 to fuel the Yokohama BayStars' three-run comeback in a 3-3 tie with the Yomiuri Giants on Friday. Lopez drove in one run and scored the tying run after some adventurous base running, but both bullpens prevented any more runs from scoring ...
Jose Lopez and Toshiro Miyazaki both went deep behind six shutout innings from starter Kenta Ishida as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-1 on Saturday. Ishida (2-3) allowed five hits and no walks in his 108-pitch effort, striking out seven for his ...
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 ...
Hiroshima Carp second baseman Ryosuke Kikuchi and outfielder Yoshihiro Maru each made it four Golden Gloves in four years as the recipients of Japanese baseball's top defensive honor, the Mitsui Golden Glove Award, were revealed on Tuesday. Suzuki, who seems to make a play worthy ...
Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez said he wanted to keep things as close to normal as he could in the team's Climax Series debut. Yoshitomo Tsutsugo hitting a big home run is pretty much as normal as it gets for the BayStars this year. Tsutsugo erased ...
Jose Lopez's late-season surge and 5-0 finishes for pitchers Yuta Iwasada and Hirotoshi Masui were recognized Friday, as each was named a monthly MVP in their respective league for the first time. The three were joined on the honor roll by Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks captain ...
The Yokohama BayStars are happy, not satisfied, to have secured an A-Class finish in the Central League. They gave the Yomiuri Giants a lesson in the distinction between the two in what they hope is their last trip to Tokyo Dome this year. The BayStars hit ...
Veteran Yasutomo Kubo allowed two runs in seven innings to pace the Yokohama BayStars to a 7-3 Central League victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Tuesday evening. Kubo, working with a lead after Takayuki Kajitani's two-run, first-inning double, allowed the Dragons to tie it in ...
Yokohama BayStars first baseman Jose Lopez, whose 14 homers this season tie him for the team lead, has suffered a fracture on the big toe and was set to be deactivated on Friday. Lopez, who is batting .275 with a team-leading 44 runs batted in ...
Shun Yamaguchi threw two-run ball over eight innings and the Yokohama BayStars broke out the bats to wallop the Yomiuri Giants 10-2 for their first victory of the 2015 regular season on Saturday afternoon. Takayuki Kajitani went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and Jose Lopez hit ...
