Masayuki Kuwahara smashed a tie-breaking, two-run, eighth-inning triple to lift the Yokohama BayStars to a 5-3 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Before 28,939 at packed Yokohama Stadium, the BayStars overcame three solo homers by the Swallows, tying the score at 3-3 in the seventh ...
Daichi Osera threw six shutout innings to lead the Hiroshima Carp to a 6-1 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday. Before 30,469 at rainy Mazda Stadium, Osera (2-0) allowed three hits and a walk, while striking out six against a Swallows lineup that ...
Whenever the Yomiuri Giants were scheduled to play at home, I knew my phone would ring. "Are you going to Tokyo Dome?" Wayne Graczyk would ask. He wanted to know how many seats to keep free in the press box and how many doughnuts he ...
Hiroshima Carp rookie Takuya Kato came within two outs of a no-hitter in his first professional game on Friday. The right-hander eventually gave up a run but did more than enough to guide his team to a 4-1 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Kato issued ...
Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien has been fined ¥200,000 and Hanshin Tigers coach Akihiro Yano ¥150,000 for their part in a melee on Tuesday. The fines were handed down Wednesday by Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki. Both were ejected in the fifth inning ...
The Puerto Rican players swarmed Eddie Rosario, pushing and pulling, grabbing at his jersey and patting the top his head and the hair he'd dyed blond, like the rest of the team. Behind home plate, Francisco Lindor was off on his own, stripping off ...
These Dutch are hot and dangerous right now. The Netherlands advanced to the World Baseball Classic final round for the second straight edition, and is perhaps better this time because of experienced amassed along the way. Slugger Wladimir Balentien, though, said he doesn't feel a sense ...
The Dutch have had a habit of coming out of the dugout to greet players who score runs during the World Baseball Classic. With the way they were swinging their bats against Israel, it was hard for anyone to get too comfortable on the bench. Didi ...
Tokyo Dome was mostly silent, with only the sounds of practice ricocheting off thousands of empty seats at the Big Egg, as the 2017 World Baseball Classic took a day off to prepare for the final push to the championship round. Japan and Cuba, who ...
Wladimir Balentien, the affable slugging outfielder for the Netherlands and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, said he knew the young group of players darting around the infield for the Dutch during the World Baseball Classic four years ago were going to be special. Balentien saw the ...
Happy New Year to all Baseball Bullet-In readers, and let the countdown begin. Just 24 days until the Japanese pro ball clubs begin spring training camps on the way to opening day of the regular season on March 31. Ever heard of "Steve Blass Disease?" How ...
Wladimir Balentien suited up for the Netherlands at the Olympics in Athens in 2004, a point in his career before he'd made his MLB debut or even given the first thought to playing in Japan. Balentien might be in the process of winding things ...
