Nobumasa Fukuda twice drove in Ryosuke Hirata, pacing the Chunichi Dragons to a 2-1 win Thursday over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants. The Giants entered the game with a magic number of four to clinch their first CL pennant since 2014. The leaders' third ...
Dragons close out Heisei Era with victory over Giants
The Heisei Era is over for the Chunichi Dragons and the club finished it off in style. With Yudai Ono on the mound and in dominant form against the period's top Central League club. Ono shook off a shaky start to pitch seven strong innings, Nobumasa ...
Chunichi Dragons rookie Raidel Martinez earned his first NPB win after early homers and late runs solidified a 10-4 victory against the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday. Martinez (1-1) retired the first 11 of 13 Carp batters before the right-hander gave up four runs at Nagoya ...
Reliever Daichi Takeyasu records first triumph of season as Tigers edge Dragons
Second-year pitcher Daichi Takeyasu picked up the win after tossing a perfect inning of relief in his first game with the Hanshin Tigers, who edged the Chunichi Dragons 2-1 on Thursday. Chunichi scored first, with Nobumasa Fukuda doubling home a run in the sixth inning, ...
Dragons' Valdes rises to challenge against Giants' Sugano
Raul Valdes never blinked. Locked in a pitcher's duel against a player considered by many to be no worse than one of the best two or three pitchers in Japan, Valdes just methodically racked up outs. By the time it was over, he'd racked up a ...
Dragons capitalize on pair of wild pitches in ninth to beat Giants
Shunta Wakamatsu kept the Chunichi Dragons in the game long enough for his teammates to grab the lead in the ninth inning. Then, he went out and finished what he started. Wakamatsu threw 141 pitches over the distance, and the opportunistic Dragons scored two runs ...
Dragons' Ono fires three-hit shutout
Yudai Ono looked like he'd barely broken a sweat as he walked out of Tokyo Dome. The ease with which he went up and down the Yomiuri Giants' lineup hadn't given him much of a chance to work up one. Ono threw a three-hit shutout, ...
