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NPB ALL STAR GAME

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 20, 2023
Hawks slugger Yuki Yanagita leads Pacific League to victory in All-Star Game 1
Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander Roki Sasaki worked a scoreless first inning to earn the win for the Pacific League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 27, 2022
Kotaro Kiyomiya walk-off homer lifts PL in NPB All-Star Game 1
The Fighters infielder connected on Carp ace Masato Morishita's 1-2 fastball with two outs in the ninth inning as the PL edged a tight game before a crowd of 35,534 at PayPay Dome.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 6, 2022
Pitching sensation Roki Sasaki earns first NPB All-Star selection
The 20-year-old Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander, who heads the PL with 124 strikeouts, received 304,034 votes to lead the Pacific League's starting pitchers in the balloting.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Jul 19, 2021
NPB rolls into Olympic break after eventful first half
Every NPB player on a first-team roster was deactivated on Thursday in one mass transaction. It was just a procedural move — because there are no games scheduled for the next 10 days — but many fans still got a kick out of the rare sight of the rosters emptying all at once in the middle of the season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 14, 2018
Matsuzaka gets shelled as PL takes All-Star opener
Back-to-back RBI singles in the seventh inning by Alfredo Despaigne and Hotaka Yamakawa lifted the Pacific League to a 7-6 victory over the Central League in the NPB All-Star Series opener on Friday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 17, 2017
NPB should do more to spice up All-Star experience
The final round of the Home Run Derby that preceded Game 1 of the NPB All-Star Series on Friday ended with a 4-4 tie and the player declared as the winner, via tiebreaker, looking around in confusion. It was yet another example that Japanese baseball needs to head back to the drawing board in its approach to the All-Star festivities.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 19, 2014
Eldred, Carp like their chances in CL
One can only imagine what went through Hiroshima Carp manager Kenjiro Nomura's mind in the Central League dugout when Brad Eldred went down after fouling a ball off his foot in the seventh inning of the 2014 All-Star Series opener on Saturday at Seibu Dome.

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