Joe Wieland allowed a run in seven innings to earn the win as the Yokohama BayStars beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-1 on Tuesday to advance to the final stage of the Central League Climax Series. Wieland, who was pitching his third game this year at ...
Surprise BayStars starter Shoichi Ino threw five scoreless innings before Kosuke Fukudome belted a two-run, sixth-inning homer, lifting Randy Messenger and the Hanshin Tigers to a 2-0 win over Yokohama in Game 1 of the Central League Climax Series First Stage. Messenger allowed three hits ...
The Yokohama BayStars finished third in the Central League for the second straight season, and seek to do better than they fared in last year's postseason. To that end, the ballclub will count on two key pitchers' tendency to perform better away. Last year, the BayStars ...
The Yokohama BayStars clinched a spot in the Central League Climax Series for the second straight season on Sunday with a 13-7 beating of the league champion Hiroshima Carp. Before a packed house of 28,966 at Yokohama Stadium, Yoshitomo Tsutstugo led off the bottom of ...
Hanshin lefty Atsushi Nomi went the distance and Kosuke Fukudome was 2-for-2 with four RBIs as the Tigers pounded the Yokohama BayStars 11-2 on Thursday and secured a berth in the Central League playoffs. The second-place Tigers qualified for the Climax Series for the first ...
The Yokohama BayStars wasted a golden opportunity to close the gap in the race for the Central League's second postseason seed in Wednesday's 4-4 tie with the Hanshin Tigers. BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki blew a one-run, ninth inning lead when Yoshio Itoi singled in a ...
Joe Wieland threw his first shutout in Japan and scored the opening run in the Yokohama BayStars' 7-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Monday. Wieland (9-2), batting eighth as Yokohama's pitchers have for most of the season, had the first of three one-out, third-inning ...
Right-hander Seishu Hatake won a clash of rookie starters, throwing seven scoreless innings in the Yomiuri Giants' 6-1 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Sunday. Hatake (6-2) walked five but allowed just two hits, while striking out three, and went 1-for-3 with an RBI as ...
Xavier Batista hit a bases-loaded RBI sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to lift the Hiroshima Carp 5-4 over the Yokohama BayStars in a seesaw game Thursday. The Carp trimmed their magic number to claim their second straight Central League pennant to one. Hiroshima got on ...
The Hiroshima Carp lowered their magic number to clinch the Central League pennant to two on Wednesday with a 12-4 win over the Yokohama BayStars. Leadoff man Kosuke Tanaka provided the spark after rookie pitcher Yuta Nakamura surrendered two runs in the top of the ...
It might be strange to some to see Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez remaining so grounded. The same Ramirez who played with emotion, who performed special dances after his home runs (sometimes with team mascots), is calm, cool and collected as his BayStars work ...
Shohei Otani has been on fire this month. The issues stemming from the injuries that have mostly kept the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' two-way star off the mound have allowed the 23-year old to showcase his batting skills, in case there were still any doubts ...
