When you've got a pitcher as good as Tomoyuki Sugano on the mound, the game plan is usually pretty simple. Give him a lead, and get out of the way. Shuichi Murata, Yoshiyuki Kamei and Hisayoshi Chono combined to drive in four runs in the first ...
Hiroshima Carp second baseman Ryosuke Kikuchi and outfielder Yoshihiro Maru each made it four Golden Gloves in four years as the recipients of Japanese baseball's top defensive honor, the Mitsui Golden Glove Award, were revealed on Tuesday. Suzuki, who seems to make a play worthy ...
The Yokohama BayStars, the only team that had not yet played in the Climax Series since the postseason format was introduced in 2007, are up against a postseason regular, the Yomiuri Giants, as their best-of-three first-stage series begins Saturday at Tokyo Dome. Under first-year manager ...
Shuichi Murata brought the Yomiuri Giants from behind with a three-run home run and drove in another run with a single as they beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6-4 in the Central League on Friday. Trailing 2-0, with runners on the corners after a single ...
The Yomiuri Giants hit three homers for all their runs to defeat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-2 on Friday, making the Hiroshima Carp wait at least another day to claim the Central League title. With the magic number at one, a Yomiuri defeat at Jingu ...
It didn't take Luis Cruz very long to show Yomiuri Giants fans what they'd been missing for the past two months. Cruz, returning from an ankle injury, sparked a big inning with a two-run home run in his first at-bat and it was smooth sailing ...
Shuichi Murata hit a two-out, walk-off single in the ninth inning as the Yomiuri Giants snapped their five-game skid with a 3-2 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Wednesday in interleague action. Yomiuri led in the third through a two-run shot from Itaru ...
Two games against the Hiroshima Carp, two big hits for Yomiuri Giants infielder Shuichi Murata. Murata made a few nifty plays with his glove at third base and put the Kyojin ahead with a tiebreaking single in the eighth to help lift the Giants to ...
Losing a shot at a perfect game because of an error in the sixth inning didn't faze Miles Mikolas one bit. Nothing gets to him on the mound these days, least of all the Hanshin Tigers. Mikolas allowed one hit over the distance, and Shuichi Murata had ...
When Yu Darvish left for the major leagues after the 2011 season, the prevailing thought was the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' pitching staff would be a rudderless ship. Then, improbably, left-hander Mitsuo Yoshikawa stepped up to fill the void. The Fighters hardly missed Darvish in ...
The Yomiuri Giants may have a new power-hitting third baseman on the way, but Shuichi Murata wants to show everyone the old model is still working just fine. Murata hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning and scored the tiebreaking run on an ...
The Yomiuri Giants and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks met in a winner-take-all matchup with a title hanging in the balance on Sunday afternoon. It wasn't the prize the two teams are hoping to play for in the fall, but for the Giants at least, it ...
