Baseball / Japanese Baseball Jul 6, 2016

Tamura garners first monthly MVP honor

Chiba Lotte Marines catcher Tatsuhiro Tamura was named the Pacific League's position player of the month for June on Wednesday, when Nippon Professional Baseball's monthly honor roll was announced. The 22-year-old Tamura joins Tetsuto Yamada of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, who won his fifth ...

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | HIT AND RUN Jul 22, 2013

Otani's presence hard to ignore during NPB All-Star Series

by Jason Coskrey

If this year's NPB All-Star Series was about anything, it was about Shohei Otani. Media and fans couldn't get enough of the 19-year-old Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie, and it was a good thing too, because he was everywhere. He pitched, he hit, and he played ...

TOKYO (2 p.m.)

Shoei Otani