Japanese Baseball Sep 15, 2021
Takahisa Hayakawa limits Orix to one run as Rakuten snaps skid
Hayakawa allowed five hits and a hit batsman without a walk and fanned five in a 100-pitch effort before the home crowd at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi.
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB May 17, 2021
Roki Sasaki makes highly anticipated NPB debut with Marines
by Jason Coskrey
The "monster" finally made landfall on May 16. Pitcher Roki Sasaki was Japan's most-hyped rookie in some time when the Chiba Lotte Marines won his rights in the 2019 draft. He didn’t pitch on the top team in 2020, but that didn’t slow the swell ...
Japanese Baseball Oct 27, 2020
Hanshin and Rakuten win rights for draft's coveted top prospects
The Tigers bested a crowded field to get first crack at Kindai slugger Teruaki Sato, while the Eagles won a fierce battle for Waseda pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa.