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Alex Ramirez runs out of time with BayStars

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.

Dragons' Yuya Yanagi recovers from shaky start, pitches seven solid innings to beat BayStars

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 ...

BayStars' Jose Lopez delivers game-winning hit against rival Giants

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 ...

BayStars starter Kentaro Taira stifles red-hot Dragons

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 ...

Jose Lopez goes deep to lead BayStars past Carp

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jul 17, 2019

Jose Lopez goes deep to lead BayStars past Carp

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 ...

Jose Lopez, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slug two homers apiece as BayStars crush Carp

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 ...

Victories by BayStars, Swallows prevent Carp from clinching pennant

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 ...

Katsuki Azuma, Jose Lopez help BayStars topple Giants

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 19, 2018

Katsuki Azuma, Jose Lopez help BayStars topple Giants

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 ...

Giants pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano and six others named to All-Star teams via player voting

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 ...

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 ...

BayStars stage thrilling comeback with three consecutive homers in ninth to defeat Carp

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," ...

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