Hiroshima Carp manager Koichi Ogata said Tuesday he will step down after his fifth season at the helm, a year in which the team was neither able to defend its Central League title nor advance to the Climax Series. Under the guidance of the 50-year-old ...
Carp, Hawks set for Japan Series showdown
Hiroshima Carp manager Koichi Ogata and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks skipper Kimiyasu Kudo each said they hoped to put on an amazing show during the final Japan Series of the Heisei Era. More importantly, of course, they want to win. The Carp and the Hawks took the ...
The Hiroshima Carp clinched their second Japan Series berth in three years on Friday with a 5-1 victory over the Yomiuri Giants in Game 3 of the Central League Climax Series Final Stage. The Carp started the six-game final stage at Mazda Stadium with a ...
The Hiroshima Carp became just the second team in the history of the Central League to win three straight pennants on Wednesday, when they beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10-0. Hiroshima's ninth CL pennant hunt began with the Carp reminding the league of their offensive ...
Carp have to avoid complacency as they head toward title
Koichi Ogata didn't sound like a manager with a pennant on the horizon after watching his Hiroshima Carp drop two of three against the Chunichi Dragons, a team 16 games behind them in the standings, over the weekend. "I apologize to the fans," the Carp ...
Central League manager names BayStars rookie Katsuki Azuma to All-Star roster
Yokohama BayStars rookie Katsuki Azuma was among 13 players newly named to the Central League roster by manager Koichi Ogata for this month's All-Star games, Nippon Professional Baseball announced Monday. Azuma is the only first-year player in either league selected to play in the two-game ...
The Hiroshima Carp clinched their second straight Central League championship, the team's eighth overall, with a 3-2 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Monday afternoon. Two days after they were denied a chance to clinch at home, a huge number of Carp fans invaded the ...
NPB begins promoting upcoming All-Star series
Nippon Professional Baseball officially kicked off the countdown to this year's All-Star series during a news conference on Thursday at a Tokyo Hotel. The My Navi All-Star Game 2017 will be held on July 14 and 15, with Game 1 scheduled to take place at ...
Tokyo Yakult Swallows ace Masanori Ishikawa allowed just a run in seven innings on Friday in a 3-1 win over the Hiroshima Carp, who lost their third straight game. Ishikawa (2-1) gave up six hits, five of them singles, and a walk, while striking out ...
Otani eyes new goals following award-winning season for Fighters
Asking what can Shohei Otani do better in 2017 is akin to the question of what do you get the person who already has everything. Otani almost did it all for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters this past season. He won 10 games and struck ...
Carp stage spirited parade through Hiroshima as Kuroda wears team uniform for final time
Over 300,000 fans flooded the center of Hiroshima on Saturday as the Hiroshima Carp celebrated their first Central League pennant in 25 years with a parade, while pitcher Hiroki Kuroda marked his last day in uniform. In the team's first parade since the franchise's maiden ...
Carp sink Fighters to take 2-0 Japan Series lead
Hiroshima Carp fans might have gone home feeling that a little can sometimes go a long way after Game 2 of the Japan Series. Their Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters counterparts, however, head back to Sapporo thinking that snowballs have a nasty tendency to start ...
