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Tigers starter Takumi Akiyama tosses first shutout since 2010

Baseball / Japanese Baseball May 8, 2018

Tigers starter Takumi Akiyama tosses first shutout since 2010

Takumi Akiyama homered, drove in two runs and threw a five-hit shutout as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 9-0 on Tuesday. It was the 27-year-old right-hander's first shutout since he was a first-year pro out of high school in 2010, and his second ...

Tigers starter Takumi Akiyama in control in nine-strikeout performance against BayStars

Baseball / Japanese Baseball May 1, 2018

Tigers starter Takumi Akiyama in control in nine-strikeout performance against BayStars

Takumi Akiyama went the distance and Yoshio Itoi opened the scoring in the Hanshin Tigers' 7-1 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday. Akiyama (2-3) did not issue a walk and limited the visitors to six hits, while striking out nine in his 107-pitch effort ...

BayStars begin quest to reach Japan Series on the road against Tigers

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 13, 2017

BayStars begin quest to reach Japan Series on the road against Tigers

The Yokohama BayStars finished third in the Central League for the second straight season, and seek to do better than they fared in last year's postseason. To that end, the ballclub will count on two key pitchers' tendency to perform better away. Last year, the BayStars ...

Reliever Daichi Takeyasu records first triumph of season as Tigers edge Dragons

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 5, 2017

Reliever Daichi Takeyasu records first triumph of season as Tigers edge Dragons

Second-year pitcher Daichi Takeyasu picked up the win after tossing a perfect inning of relief in his first game with the Hanshin Tigers, who edged the Chunichi Dragons 2-1 on Thursday. Chunichi scored first, with Nobumasa Fukuda doubling home a run in the sixth inning, ...

Sugano shuts out Tigers as Giants keep pace in race for playoffs

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 20, 2017

Sugano shuts out Tigers as Giants keep pace in race for playoffs

Tomoyuki Sugano threw a two-hit shutout on Wednesday as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 2-0 and moved within a hair of third place in the Central League. Sugano (16-5) faced just one batter over the minimum in a 110-pitch effort. He struck out ...

Injuries put Tigers in pinch

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Aug 12, 2017

Injuries put Tigers in pinch

by Jason Coskrey

The Hanshin Tigers' pitchers need to step up. The past several days have been hard on the Tigers, with the team watching its top two pitchers go down with injuries in a span of five days. Now it's up to the rest of the rotation ...

Giants hurler Sugano avenges lone loss of season against Tigers

Baseball / Japanese Baseball May 23, 2017

Giants hurler Sugano avenges lone loss of season against Tigers

Tomoyuki Sugano paid Hanshin back for his only loss of the season with seven scoreless innings as the Yomiuri Giants held off the Tigers 1-0 in the Central League on Tuesday. Before 46,227 at Koshien Stadium, Sugano (6-1) dueled Takumi Akiyama for six scoreless innings ...

Intuition pays off as Fukudome switches bats, slugs homer in victory over Giants

Baseball / Japanese Baseball May 9, 2017

Intuition pays off as Fukudome switches bats, slugs homer in victory over Giants

by Jason Coskrey

Kosuke Fukudome just had a feeling. The Hanshin Tigers veteran's first trip to the plate ended with a called third strike. So the bat that had remained on his shoulder in the first inning was left in the dugout when Fukudome strode to the plate ...

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