Baseball / MLB Nov 19, 2020
MLB suspends Robinson Cano for 162 games after failed drug test
The 38-year-old Cano will miss the entire 2021 season and lose $24 million in salary.
Baseball Nov 16, 2014
Cano sustains fractured toe, done for series
by Jason Coskrey
The MLB-Japan All-Star Series show will go on, but it'll be without its leading man. Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was lifted from Game 3 on Saturday after being struck in the foot by a pitch from Yuki Nishi and was diagnosed with a ...
Baseball Nov 15, 2014
Norimoto, three relievers toss combined no-hitter against MLB All-Stars
by Jason Coskrey
Takahiro Norimoto didn't have any problems during his matchup against a lineup of major league hitters. Yuki Nishi didn't have many either, nor did Kazuhisa Makita or even Yuji Nishino. No problems for the Japanese pitchers equaled no hits for the major league batters. Norimoto retired ...
Baseball Nov 14, 2014
Yanagita carries Samurai Japan to Game 2 win over MLB All-Stars
by Jason Coskrey
In a game featuring six-time MLB All-Star Robinson Cano, three-time All-Star Evan Longoria and 2006 AL MVP and four-time All-Star Justin Morneau, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' Yuki Yanagita shone brighter than all of them. Yanagita drove in four runs and was a home run away ...
Baseball / MLB Aug 20, 2014
MLB names four stars for series against Samurai Japan
by Kaz Nagatsuka
As the Nichibei Yakyu extravaganza returns for the first time in eight years, Major League Baseball looks set to bring a serious squad to Japan come November. Three-time National League MVP Albert Pujols, currently of the Los Angeles Angels, and six-time All-Star Robinson Cano of ...
Baseball | WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Mar 21, 2013
Dominicans overcome by emotion after WBC victory
by Jason Coskrey
Fernando Rodney bounded around on a hastily assembled stage with a fresh World Baseball Classic winner's medal and a plantain that was more than a few days past its expiration date both dangling around his neck. Hat tilted to the side, Rodney shot imaginary arrows ...
Baseball | WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Mar 19, 2013
Ghosts of past return as Dominicans get set to face Dutch
by Jason Coskrey
The Dominicans insist they're not motivated by revenge. The Dutch are adamant that the past is the past. Nevertheless, the memory of the 2009 World Baseball Classic refuses to dissipate ahead of Monday's semifinal showdown between the two nations in the 2013 WBC. An underdog Netherlands ...