New pieces present Marines with chance to alter fortunes
The Chiba Lotte Marines have gotten a makeover. While the Marines may have missed out on the postseason this year (Lotte was fourth in the Pacific League), they haven't been idle during the offseason. There have been some changes to the team since the final out ...
Eagles pitcher Manabu Mima on verge of joining Marines as free agent: source
Free agent right-hander Manabu Mima, who led the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in innings pitched this year, is poised to join the Chiba Lotte Marines, a source said on Friday. Mima went 8-5 this season for the Eagles. He threw 143⅔ innings with an 8-5 ...
Eagles' Manabu Mima loses perfect game in ninth, hangs on for victory
Manabu Mima carried a perfect game into the ninth inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 5-1 on Friday, handing the Pacific League leaders their fifth consecutive loss. Mima (6-3) allowed two hits and a walk, while striking out six ...
Buffaloes' Yuki Nishi tosses eight scoreless innings, earns first win of season
Yuki Nishi threw eight scoreless innings, guiding the Orix Buffaloes to a 3-1victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Saturday. Nishi (1-3) struck out six, while allowing a walk, a hit batsman and three singles. Chris Marrero put the Buffaloes in front at Rakuten Seimei ...
Lions lefty Yusei Kikuchi beats Golden Eagles for 11th straight time
Seibu Lions left-hander Yusei Kikuchi won his 11th straight start against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, who fell 10-3 in a crucial loss on Tuesday. The Eagles defeat left them three games back of the second-place Lions in the race for home-field advantage in the ...
Shohei Otani worked 5-2/3 innings to earn his first win of the season and four relievers completed a three-hit shutout as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters topped the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 7-0 on Tuesday. Otani (1-2) was making his third start of an injury-hit ...
The battle for first place got messy in the Pacific League on Saturday, when Kenta Imamiya drove in three runs to push the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 10-9 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Before 26,383 at Kobo Park Miyagi, Imamiya came up ...
Eagles show mettle during series with Carp
While you never want to get too caught up in a series in early June, the results from Sendai over the weekend are well worth remembering as the season stretches onward. Masataka Nashida's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles poured cold water on the red-hot Hiroshima Carp ...
Carlos Peguero hit a grand slam and Manabu Mima worked six innings as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came from behind to beat the Seibu Lions 6-1 on Saturday afternoon. Mima (5-1) allowed his only run on a leadoff homer to six-time PL ...
Manabu Mima allowed two runs in eight innings as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles buried the Seibu Lions 10-2 on Saturday afternoon. Mima (4-0) allowed four hits, while striking out four and walking none. Both of the runs scored against him came on ...
Aggressive-minded pitchers find success for Eagles
You've got to play aggressively — that's one of the cliches that has been used millions of times in sports. And also, that's one of the things that you can hardly execute, especially at the professional level, because audaciousness sometimes turns to recklessness that can ...
Offense ignites Eagles in Game 3 victory over Giants
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles finally got some bang for their bucks at the plate, and found a surprise hero on the mound in the process. The Eagles finally turned some of their hits into runs, and a valiant effort out of the bullpen by ...
