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TIGERS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 22, 2014
Carp hurler Maeda fires five-hit shutout against Tigers
Ace Kenta Maeda threw a five-hit shutout and Ryohei Matsuyama drove in three runs on Friday as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-0 in the first game of an enticing three-game series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 16, 2014
Gomez earning his stripes with Tigers
Mauro Gomez probably couldn't believe his luck when he saw the pitch Chris Seddon threw him.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 14, 2014
Giants close out series with tidy victory over Tigers
The Yomiuri Giants aren't giving up first place without a fight.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 12, 2014
Messenger leads charge as Tigers hold off Giants
Despite some thorns, the story kept getting rosier for Hanshin Tigers right-hander Randy Messenger.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Aug 4, 2014
Tigers face annual 'road trip of death' in midst of CL race
Should the Hanshin Tigers be worried about the "road trip of death?" Sure, it sounds ominous, as do most things when you tack "of death" onto the end, but it's not nearly as bad as in the past. Either way, the team has to face it now.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 2, 2014
Hair-raising trend sweeps across NPB diamonds
The year 2013 turned out to be the "Year of the Beard" for the Boston Red Sox. They won the World Series with most of the regular players sporting thick, full facial bushy growths that became somewhat of a team trademark.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 31, 2014
Muranaka tames Tigers in rout
Kyohei Muranaka allowed one unearned run over eight sharp innings, Wladimir Balentien homered, and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows turned a close game into an 8-1 rout of the Hanshin Tigers to clinch the three-game series on Thursday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2014
Fukudome belts winning blast in 12th
Kosuke Fukudome came through when his team needed him the most, delivering a 12th-inning, walk-off home run to lift the Hanshin Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the archrival Yomiuri Giants on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 21, 2014
Contenders begin second half with eyes on prize
While the NPB All-Star Series doesn't land exactly at the midpoint of the season it splits the year in two very well symbolically if not mathematically. No matter how you slice it, the regular season resumed on Monday, signaling the start of a two month race to the finish line.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 16, 2014
Messenger lights up Dragons in Tigers win
Randy Messenger threw eight scoreless innings and Oh Seung-hwan saved his 22nd game as the Hanshin Tigers defeated Chunichi Dragons 2-0 to wrap up the first half of the season heading into the All-Star break on Wednesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 15, 2014
Fujinami strikes out 13, notches first career complete game
Second-year right-hander Shintaro Fujinami threw his first career complete game with a 13-strikeout effort, Takahiro Arai drove in two runs on 3-for-4 hitting, and the Hanshin Tigers trounced the Chunichi Dragons 8-1 on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 13, 2014
Sekimoto slugs seventh-inning grand slam against Giants
Pinch hitter Kentaro Sekimoto hit a grand slam with two outs in the seventh inning, lifting the Hanshin Tigers in a rally past the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants en route to a 6-4 victory on Sunday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 11, 2014
Tigers cruise past Giants for eighth straight victory
Tsuyoshi Nishioka was at the plate in the sixth inning with his team leading 4-2 and runners on second and third, when the Yomiuri Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei trotted in from left field to serve as a fifth infielder, setting up camp between shortstop and third base.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 8, 2014
Tigers stretch winning streak to six
Minoru Iwata allowed one unearned run over seven solid innings, leading the surging Hanshin Tigers to their sixth straight win in a 3-1 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 18, 2014
Fighters star Otani cages Tigers at Koshien
Double-duty right-hander Shohei Otani lit up Koshien Stadium on Tuesday night, striking out 11 in eight innings as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters blanked the Hanshin Tigers 4-0 in interleague action.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2014
Softbank's Standridge has happy homecoming in win over Tigers
Former Hanshin pitcher Jason Standridge returned to Koshien Stadium and threw a three-hitter as the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks beat the Tigers 6-0 in interleague play.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 3, 2014
Eagles rally past Tigers in ninth
Akihisa Makida celebrated his 32nd birthday in grand fashion, completing a ninth-inning comeback with a two-run sayonara double to lift the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to a 4-3 interleague victory over the Hanshin Tigers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 27, 2014
Tigers' Fujinami tosses eight scoreless innings against Marines
Shintaro Fujinami yielded just three hits over eight shutout innings, cleanup hitter Mauro Gomez had an RBI double and the Hanshin Tigers blanked the Chiba Lotte Marines 2-0 in a makeup game on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2014
Nomi fans 13 as Tigers send Hawks to first interleague defeat
Hanshin ace Atsushi Nomi struck out 13 batters in six innings and the Hanshin Tigers beat Fukuoka Softbank 4-3 on Saturday, handing the Hawks their first interleague loss of the season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 20, 2014
Buffaloes pound Tigers as Nishi extends win streak to eight
Yuki Nishi and the Orix Buffaloes gave the Kansai rival Hanshin Tigers a 12-2 beating on Tuesday, the first day of interleague play.
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Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Political party Tsubasa no To investigated over election obstruction
Officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police raid the Tsubasa no To office in Tokyo on Monday.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
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