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Hawks pitcher Kodai Senga picks up win in first appearance in two weeks
Kodai Senga returned to the mound for the first time in two weeks on Friday, and worked into the sixth inning for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in a 6-2 interleague win over the Yokohama BayStars. Senga (4-1) looked rusty at the start but found his ...
BayStars backup Koki Yamashita provides 10th-inning heroics with walk-off single against Eagles
Seldom-used utility infielder Koki Yamashita lifted the Yokohama BayStars to a 4-3, 10th-inning, walk-off win against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Thursday, singling in the winning run in his first at-bat of the season. Yamashita, a fifth-round pick by the BayStars in 2014, had ...
Dragons hurler Daisuke Yamai tosses first shutout since 2014
Daisuke Yamai pitched a shutout for the first time in four years as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Yokohama BayStars 8-0 in the Central League on Tuesday. Yamai (1-0), who was making his first start of the season, struck out six while allowing four hits ...
Tomoyuki Sugano clubs solo homer to help his cause, lift Giants over BayStars
Tomoyuki Sugano surrendered the lead on a slider. So it was only fitting the Yomiuri Giants ace used one to get it back. Sugano allowed a game-tying home run in the top of the fifth inning, then took matters into his own hands with a ...
BayStars rookie Katsuki Azuma avenges earlier losses against Tigers by tossing first shutout
The third time proved to be the charm for rookie Katsuki Azuma, who threw his first shutout on Wednesday in the Yokohama BayStars' 5-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers. The BayStars' top draft pick last autumn, Azuma (3-2) produced bad swings and lots of soft ...
Puerto Rico's Neftali Soto hit a home run in his Nippon Professional Baseball debut as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Yomiuri Giants 12-8 on Sunday. In front of 28,962 at windy Yokohama Stadium, Soto went 2-for-5 with a first-inning RBI double and a third-inning solo ...
Tigers starter Takumi Akiyama in control in nine-strikeout performance against BayStars
Takumi Akiyama went the distance and Yoshio Itoi opened the scoring in the Hanshin Tigers' 7-1 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday. Akiyama (2-3) did not issue a walk and limited the visitors to six hits, while striking out nine in his 107-pitch effort ...
Daisuke Matsuzaka gets first NPB win since 2006 as Dragons beat BayStars
Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched six innings and claimed his first win since returning to Nippon Professional Baseball in the Chunichi Dragons' 3-1 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Monday. Former major leaguer Matsuzaka (1-2) limited the BayStars to one run on three hits, while issuing seven ...
Carp whip BayStars, spoil starter Shota Imanaga's season debut
Right-hander Yuta Nakamura worked into the ninth inning for the Hiroshima Carp in Tuesday's 7-2 victory over the Yokohama BayStars. The BayStars, who upset the CL champion Carp last autumn in the playoffs, had two key players making their season debuts, lefty Shota Imanaga and ...
BayStars rally past Dragons as southpaw Kenta Ishida records first win of season
Kenta Ishida battled through seven innings as the Yokohama BayStars came from behind to beat the visiting Chunichi Dragons 6-5 on Friday night. The lefty struck out seven while allowing seven hits and two earned runs on the way to his first win of the ...
Right-hander Edison Barrios allowed a run in 6-1/3 innings Saturday to help the Yokohama BayStars snap a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Hiroshima Carp. Barrios (1-1) held the Carp scoreless through six innings at Mazda Stadium, and Hiroki Minei's two-run homer ...
Carp look to remain on throne as Central League rivals prepare to mount challenge
The following is the second of a two-part NPB preview concluding with the 2018 Central League. In order of predicted finish: Hiroshima Toyo Carp Last season: 88-51-4 (1st) Manager Koichi Ogata has the keys to an offense that put up 736 runs in 2017, led the CL ...
