PL outslugs CL in NPB All-Star Series opener
After watching the home run derby before the game, some Seibu Lions, past and present, put on a power show of their own. Lions catcher Tomoya Mori hit a two-run home run, teammate Hotaka Yamakawa had a solo shot and former Lions star, and current ...
Tomoya Mori leads Lions' hit parade with 4-for-5 performance against Fighters
Opener, closer, middleman, it's all the same to the Seibu Lions' lineup. When the Lions' bats are roaring, it doesn't matter who is on the mound or when they get there, they're going to get hit. Hard. Shogo Akiyama and Tomoya Mori keyed the five-run third ...
Tomoya Mori, Ko Shimozuru recipients of Sky Perfect Dramatic Sayonara of the Year Award
Tomoya Mori sent the fans at Seibu Dome into hysterics with his sayonara double in April. Ko Shimozuru did the same in July with a home run at Mazda Stadium. There aren't many things in baseball more exciting or dramatic than a sayonara hit. Of ...
Samurai Japan's Yuki Yanagita wields powerful bat in Game 2 victory over MLB All-Stars
There were stars from both MLB and NPB playing under the bright lights at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night. Then there was Yuki Yanagita, who was in a league of his own. Yanagita hit a two-run home run and drove in four runs overall to lead ...
Hotaka Yamakawa and Tomoya Mori each knocked in two runs, with Mori driving home Yamakawa with the game winner as the Seibu Lions rallied from six runs down to beat the Orix Buffaloes 7-6 in 10 innings on Tuesday night. Mori, who had doubled in ...
Lions' Tomoya Mori comes through in clutch with game-winning double in 10th against Buffaloes
Yusei Kikuchi went nine innings, setting up an extra-inning win as Tomoya Mori's pinch-hit sayonara double lifted the Seibu Lions to 2-1 triumph over the Orix Buffaloes on Thursday. Kikuchi lucked out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the second and then cruised until Koji ...
Fabio Castillo pitched into the seventh inning to earn the win in his Nippon Professional Baseball debut as the Seibu Lions beat Pacific League champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2-1 on Wednesday. The Lions have won all five of their games this season. They started off ...
Otani's legend grows with PL pennant-clinching win
Shohei Otani was sublime on Wednesday night. He was dazzling, superb, resplendent. He was all that and more, almost more than there are adjectives to describe him. Basically at Saitama Seibu Prince Dome on Wednesday night, Shohei Otani the pitcher was good enough, for ...
Seibu catcher Mori struggles behind plate during practice game
Young Seibu Lions slugger Tomoya Mori showed Wednesday that his quest to become a full-fledged professional catcher is not going to be easy. The 20-year-old Mori, who is registered as a catcher and formed a high school battery with Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, has ...
Fujinami, Abe provide heroics for CL in NPB All-Star Series opener
Shintaro Fujinami is the one with the "W" next to his name, but his parents came away as the big winners. Fujinami retired all nine batters he faced, Shinnosuke Abe hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the sixth inning and the Central League All-Stars rallied ...
Lions teenager Mori thriving on pro level
Tomoya Mori swings hard. Really, really hard. Sometimes, so hard he loses his balance for a moment. Mori twists his stocky 170-cm, 80-kg frame, which looks even more compact when he's squatted down in his batting stance, with great force to create that big swing. ...
Teenage slugger Tomoya Mori, who has proven to be the most popular player in this summer's all-star voting, blasted two homers and a double on Wednesday as the Pacific League's Seibu Lions beat the Central League's Chunichi Dragons 4-1 in interleague action. The 19-year-old Mori ...
