Shinnosuke Abe says goodbye to Giants fans on a winning note
Everyone at Tokyo Dome knew what Yomiuri Giants public address announcer Daisuke Takahashi was going say. They just needed to hear him say it one more time, one last time. "Catcher, Abe Shinnosuke," Takahashi, voice rising to a scream, announced as the Giants took the ...
Reliever Scott Mathieson happy to be back on mound for Giants
Scott Mathieson had appeared in 393 games for the Yomiuri Giants entering this season. Over the past seven years, he's come out the Yomiuri bullpen mostly tasked with either protecting leads, keeping the Kyojin in games or closing out wins. Mathieson has been a vital ...
Giants reliever Scott Mathieson to have season-ending surgery
Veteran right-hander Scott Mathieson left Japan on Monday to have surgery on his left knee that will end his season, the Yomiuri Giants announced. "I feel awful that I'm missing the rest of the season," the 34-year-old right-hander said in a post on his Twitter ...
Regular routine keeps Carp reliever Jay Jackson in groove
Jay Jackson likes being a relief pitcher. He also likes being a relief pitcher in Japan, which is convenient, since the 30-year-old is in the middle of his third season with the Hiroshima Carp. Jackson has seen a lot during his time in NPB, and ...
Giants' Mathieson moved forward by getting back to basics in Japan
Yomiuri Giants reliever Scott Mathieson is no longer the pitcher he was when he turned up on these shores in 2012 as a 28-year-old, he's better. With 15 major league games to show for 10 seasons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, Mathieson was brought to ...
Usami makes first game-winning hit of career one to remember
It was only 10 days ago that Shingo Usami recorded his first pro hit. After his last swing of the bat on Friday night, the Yomiuri Giants youngster can check his first home run and first game-winning hit off the list as well. Usami hit ...
Amador, Lopez, Mathieson catch fire in NPB
Over the past weekend in Japan, the only thing hotter than the weather, was the play of a trio of foreign NPB stars. None may have been hotter than Japhet Amador. The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger caught fire for the Pacific League leaders over ...
Lopez's banner performance not enough for BayStars in 3-3 tie with Giants
Jose Lopez went 5-for-5 to fuel the Yokohama BayStars' three-run comeback in a 3-3 tie with the Yomiuri Giants on Friday. Lopez drove in one run and scored the tying run after some adventurous base running, but both bullpens prevented any more runs from scoring ...
It took until June, but Shun Yamaguchi's debut as a Yomiuri Giant made the wait seem almost worth it, as the right-hander threw six no-hit innings in Wednesday's 3-0 interleague win over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Of the three players who signed with Yomiuri over ...
Baseball community, friends reflect on Graczyk's life
Whenever the Yomiuri Giants were scheduled to play at home, I knew my phone would ring. "Are you going to Tokyo Dome?" Wayne Graczyk would ask. He wanted to know how many seats to keep free in the press box and how many doughnuts he ...
WBC duty means quick turnaround for foreign stars
Now that spring camps are only a few days away for NPB teams — some players are already working out "independently" together — the foreign contingent has begun trickling into the country. It was mostly the first-year foreign players the past couple of weeks, ...
Chono delivers winning hit in eighth inning as Giants stave off elimination
The Yomiuri Giants survived a few close calls in a tense game that could've gone either way to keep their season alive. Their reward is a chance to do it all over again. Starter Kazuto Taguchi and reliever Scott Mathieson kept the Giants in the game ...
