Carp crush Giants to extend winning streak to 10
The first several weeks of the NPB season had many wondering how it was possible for the Hiroshima Carp to start off so slowly. Now the question is this: How on earth can anyone slow them down? Xavier Batista hit two home runs, Seiya Suzuki and ...
Star pitcher Koji Uehara retires after long career in MLB, NPB
Yomiuri Giants pitcher and former major leaguer Koji Uehara, who won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2013, announced Monday that his career is over. "I want to end my 21-year baseball career today," Uehara, told a press conference in Tokyo. "There ...
Akiyoshi Katsuno loses shutout in sixth inning as Dragons fall to Giants
Akiyoshi Katsuno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning of his first professional start on Friday but gave up three runs and took the loss as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Chunichi Dragons 4-1. Katsuno (0-1) pitched five dominant innings at Nagoya Dome until getting ...
'Home Run Jizo' testament of bond between Sadaharu Oh and ailing boy
It's raining hard at Shinbanba station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Pouring, actually, real cats-and-dogs-type stuff. Sac Bunts is here, on the Keikyu Line platform, with Marty Kuehnert, former general manager of NPB's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and currently a senior GM with the B. League's ...
Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano opens Reiwa Era in NPB with complete-game victory over Dragons
Tomoyuki Sugano lost his bid for the first shutout of Japan's new imperial era but still managed to go the distance as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Chunichi Dragons 5-1 in the Central League on Wednesday afternoon. On the first day of action in Japan's ...
Dragons close out Heisei Era with victory over Giants
The Heisei Era is over for the Chunichi Dragons and the club finished it off in style. With Yudai Ono on the mound and in dominant form against the period's top Central League club. Ono shook off a shaky start to pitch seven strong innings, Nobumasa ...
Home run celebrations becoming commonplace in Japanese game
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks infielder Kenji Akashi briefly went viral across baseball late last week when he hit a three-run sayonara home run and celebrated with a backflip onto home plate. Well, near home plate, as he had to go back and actually step on ...
Giants quash late rally, beat reeling BayStars
The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants. They just didn't get them early enough. Yomiuri's C.C. Mercedes pitched into the seventh, Yasuhiro Yamamoto drove in a pair of runs and Yomiuri stamped out ...
Tetsuto Yamada and Wladimir Balentien each hit a pair of home runs, while Norichika Aoki went 4-for-4, as the Tokyo Yakult Swallows hammered the Yomiuri Giants 11-2 on Thursday. Former major leaguer Albert Suarez got the win in his first start for the Swallows. The ...
Giants' Shun Yamaguchi silences Swallows in eight scoreless innings
Shun Yamaguchi tossed eight innings of one-hit ball on Tuesday night as the Yomiuri Giants pounded the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 9-0 in a battle for the Central League's top spot. Yamaguchi (4-0) struck out six and was backed by excellent fielding at Jingu Stadium, while ...
Taylor Jungmann threw eight innings and closer Ryan Cook completed the shutout as the Yomiuri Giants defeated the Hanshin Tigers 2-0 on Saturday. Jungmann (2-0) pitched out of a couple of jams after allowing three hits and four walks, and was backed by a two-run ...
Swallows beat Giants in slugfest
The Yomiuri Giants provided the fireworks in the opener and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows lit up the scoreboard in second game. In the finale of the year's first three-game set between the crosstown rivals, they traded blows until only one was left standing. That turned out ...
