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Veteran slugger Pena brings much-needed power to Marines
After watching Wily Mo Pena give them what they hope is a taste of things to come, the Chiba Lotte Marines fans in the visitor's section at Tokyo Dome could only stand and applaud. And that was just for batting practice. Pena, who signed with the ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines have attempted to beef up their sluggish batting, announcing Tuesday they had reached an agreement with former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger Wily Mo Pena. The Marines are currently last in the Pacific League. Their 158 runs and 27 home runs ...
Pena irked by Okubo's comments
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger Wily Mo Pena has taken exception to comments his manager, Hiromoto "Dave" Okubo, made to the media recently. The last-place Eagles have scored the fewest runs (440) in Japan and began Wednesday with the worst team batting average in the ...
Yasunori Kikuchi pitched seven innings of two-run ball, Wily Mo Pena tied the game and drove in a go-ahead run and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Orix Buffaloes 5-3 on Saturday. Kikuchi (4-3) allowed seven hits, struck out three and walked two to ...
Pena alone can't lift Rakuten's power profile
If the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles seal the deal with Wily Mo Pena, as reported on Monday by Daily Sports Online, it will help the Eagles avoid taking a step back in the power department, but it won't solve all the team's problems. What Pena, ...
Pena slugs 20th homer as Buffaloes climb back into first place
Wily Mo Pena broke the balance with a tiebreaking three-run home run in the sixth inning as the Orix Buffaloes held off the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 6-5 to regain first place in the Pacific League on Thursday night. Pena's 20th homer of the season came ...
Good health keys Pena's torrid start
After hitting his ninth home run of the year a few hours earlier, Wily Mo Pena insisted there was nothing special behind his hot start to the year. He didn't discover any new techniques, have any game-changing epiphanies or anything of the sort. No, the ...
NPB season too young to accurately identify trends
The NPB season is less than two weeks old, so it's too early to know if anything we've seen so far really has staying power. Once the year is a few months old, and the picture of the season begins to take shape, it'll be ...
Wily Mo Pena hit his fifth home run of the young season and Kei Igawa pitched five scoreless innings as the Orix Buffaloes beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 3-1 on Thursday to complete a three-game road sweep. Igawa (1-0) allowed two hits and issued ...
