Yomiuri Giants lefty Tetsuya Utsumi had surgery to remove a mediastinal tumor between his lungs, the Central League team said Monday. The tumor was discovered during a routine postseason physical. Utsumi, 34, is expected to be discharged from hospital within the year and could begin ...
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 ...
For one night, it almost felt like old times for the Yomiuri Giants. Shinnosuke Abe and Hayato Sakamoto were hitting home runs and Tetsuya Utsumi was making sure the other team didn't. Abe connected on a two-run shot, Sakamoto hit a solo blast and Utsumi ...
A red-hot Randy Messenger was dealing, and it didn't look as if the Yomiuri Giants were going to have many chances to cool him off. When an opportunity finally did present itself, the Giants didn't let it go to waste. Hayato Sakamoto drove in the first ...
Tetsuya Utsumi threw his hands in the air as soon as the ball cleared the wall in left-center. Then he started clapping, and then he started grinning, and he capped his celebration by giving teammate Frederich Cepeda a high-five and a big slap on ...
Tetsuya Utsumi pitched his first complete game of the season, Hayato Sakamoto went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and the Yomiuri Giants walloped the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 11-3 in the two teams' last interleague game on Sunday afternoon. Utsumi (5-3) yielded three runs, two of them ...
Tetsuya Utsumi is making an appearance at his second World Baseball Classic, but his role will be a lot more important this time. Although he was on the hill for just three innings, the Yomiuri Giants lefty put up a superb outing on Tuesday night, ...
Yomiuri Giants ace Tetsuya Utsumi and his teammates started spring training on Feb. 1 in the pursuit of a second straight Japan Series championship. But for Utsumi, his role in the regular season is on the backburner as the lefty gears up for March's World ...
