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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 ...
Carp capitalize on big plays, stellar pitching to beat Fighters in Game 1
The 2016 Japan Series got off to a wet start, but the Hiroshima Carp and their fans weren't about to let a little rain, or Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ace Shohei Otani, ruin their fun. Not when it took 25 years to get here again. Seiya ...
The Hiroshima Carp and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters will play each other for the first time in the Japan Series, which starts on Saturday at Mazda Stadium. While both teams are making their seventh bid to become the top baseball club in Japan, the Carp ...
Carp, Fighters to vie for NPB supremacy
This one should be good. After a long season and two rounds of playoffs, 12 teams have been whittled down to two. Beginning this weekend, those teams, the Central League champion Hiroshima Carp and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, champions of the Pacific League, will ...
Hiroshima Carp capture first pennant since 1991
For two days, the Hiroshima Carp and their fans watched as Yomiuri Giants victories over other teams kept them from clinching a long-awaited Central League title. Finally, on Saturday night, the Carp were able to take matters into their own hands. Seiya Suzuki hit his 25th ...
