Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Oct 27, 2020
Alex Ramirez runs out of time with BayStars
by Jason Coskrey
The BayStars will now forge ahead without the manager who has won more than anyone else there in over 20 years.
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 7, 2019
Dragons' Yuya Yanagi recovers from shaky start, pitches seven solid innings to beat BayStars
Yuya Yanagi bounced back from a tough first inning to work seven innings and win for the first time in two months as the Chunichi Dragons defeated the Yokohama BayStars 8-3 on Saturday. Yanagi (10-5) surrendered back-to-back first-inning home runs at Nagoya Dome to Jose ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 2, 2019
BayStars' Jose Lopez delivers game-winning hit against rival Giants
Jose Lopez hit a tie-breaking, two-run double off his former team, lifting the second-place Yokohama BayStars to a 4-2 win over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants on Friday night. Trailing by a run in the sixth, Neftali Soto doubled in Takehiro Ishikawa to tie it ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jul 20, 2019
BayStars starter Kentaro Taira stifles red-hot Dragons
by Jason Coskrey
Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez knew his team was going to need a big performance in order to slow down the streaking Chunichi Dragons and their star pitcher Yuya Yanagi. With BayStars starter Kentaro Taira leading the way, Ramirez's club delivered. Taira (2-2) threw six shutout ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jul 17, 2019
Jose Lopez launched a two-run bomb in the fourth inning to lead the Yokohama BayStars to a 3-1 victory over the Hiroshima Carp in the Central League on Wednesday. With the BayStars trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the inning, Lopez sent Kris Johnson's 0-2 ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jun 28, 2019
Jose Lopez, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slug two homers apiece as BayStars crush Carp
Jose Lopez and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo each homered twice as league play resumed on Friday in the Yokohama BayStars' 13-3 whipping of the Hiroshima Carp. Lopez, a longtime regular for the Seattle Mariners who is in his seventh season in Japan, opened the scoring with a ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 25, 2018
Victories by BayStars, Swallows prevent Carp from clinching pennant
Jose Lopez broke an eighth-inning tie with a two-run homer Tuesday to lead the Yokohama BayStars to a 5-3 victory over the Hiroshima Carp, while the Tokyo Yakult Swallows' win delayed the Central League leaders from clinching their third straight pennant. The Carp, who entered ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 19, 2018
Left-hander Katsuki Azuma pitched eight strong innings and Jose Lopez hit two home runs in the Yokohama BayStars' 6-1 win on Wednesday over the Yomiuri Giants. In front of 44,544 at Tokyo Dome, Azuma (11-5) pitched seven perfect innings before surrendering a solo home run ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jun 28, 2018
Giants pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano and six others named to All-Star teams via player voting
Yomiuri Giants right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano was among seven players added Thursday to the Central and Pacific League All-Star teams through player voting. Sugano was selected to the All-Star roster for the seventh time after receiving 385 votes from his NPB colleagues. The 28-year-old leads the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 22, 2017
BayStars stage thrilling comeback with three consecutive homers in ninth to defeat Carp
Yokohama pulled off a minor miracle as Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, Jose Lopez and Toshiro Miyazaki hit back-to-back-to-back homers in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the BayStars a 6-5 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday. "By far the most exciting game this year," ...