Despite the amount of ink spilled trying to determine whether Seibu Lions pitcher Yusei Kikuchi was actually guilty of the illegal two-stage pitching motion he was cited for on Thursday night, it's more important to note the way he handled the Tohoku Rakuten Golden ...
Tomoyuki Sugano hasn't really needed a lot of run support when facing the Yokohama BayStars this season. That doesn't mean his teammates don't like providing it all the same. Sugano held the BayStars in check with another good performance against them, and Casey McGehee took the ...
The Yomiuri Giants belted three home runs for the sixth straight game and Tomoyuki Sugano went eight innings as the Kyojin clobbered the Chunichi Dragons 8-2 on Saturday afternoon. Before 43,599 at Tokyo Dome, offseason free-agent acquisition Daikan Yoh hit his fourth homer in three ...
When you've got a pitcher as good as Tomoyuki Sugano on the mound, the game plan is usually pretty simple. Give him a lead, and get out of the way. Shuichi Murata, Yoshiyuki Kamei and Hisayoshi Chono combined to drive in four runs in the first ...
A lot of NPB players might be looking forward to the upcoming All-Star break, but you might not find too many Yomiuri Giants on that list. Especially not when they're finally starting to get in a groove and build some momentum. The Giants continued their recent ...
The Yomiuri Giants blanked the first-place Hiroshima Carp for the second straight night, this time with ace Tomoyuki Sugano throwing six scoreless innings in a 5-0 win Wednesday. Pitching on four days' rest for the first time since September 2015, Sugano (8-4) picked up his ...
Raul Valdes never blinked. Locked in a pitcher's duel against a player considered by many to be no worse than one of the best two or three pitchers in Japan, Valdes just methodically racked up outs. By the time it was over, he'd racked up a ...
Tomoyuki Sugano hurled a three-hit gem for his first interleague win this season as the Yomiuri Giants defeated the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 5-1 on Tuesday. Sugano (7-2) yielded a combined 13 runs in his previous two starts against Pacific League teams. This time, he dominated, ...
The Yomiuri Giants, lost their 11th straight game, matching a franchise record, in an 8-5 interleague defeat to the Seibu Lions on Tuesday. The Giants equaled the mark set in 1975, then-manager Shigeo Nagashima's first season at the helm. Before a crowd of 24,533 at MetLife ...
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 ...
Tomoyuki Sugano made quick work of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to pick up his fifth win of the season, striking out six and allowing one run in eight innings as the Yomiuri Giants won 5-1 Tuesday. The Giants needed just 2 hours, 16 minutes to ...
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 ...
