Baseball Oct 19, 2020
Former Eagles and Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma to retire at end of season
Iwakuma joined the Mariners in 2012 and racked up 63 wins over his time with the club.
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Oct 19, 2020
NPB stars prepare to say goodbye as season winds down
by Jason Coskrey
It's retirement season in NPB. As the 2020 campaign begins to wind down, fans across Japan will be saying goodbye to some familiar faces. Hanshin Tigers reliever and former major leaguer Kyuji Fujikawa announced in September that he was calling it quits at the end of ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Sep 21, 2020
Buffaloes score with play, uniforms during mostly positive week on diamond
by Jason Coskrey
The Orix Buffaloes looked good last week. They also played reasonably well too, winning four of their seven games, despite ending on a losing note. The struggling Pacific League outfit went into its past for a couple of games last week, playing a series in Kobe ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Sep 14, 2020
Giants stripping all mystery out of remainder of Central League campaign
by Jason Coskrey
After winning six games last week, the Kyojin have a 9½-game lead over the second-place Hanshin Tigers with fewer than 50 games remaining for each team.
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Aug 31, 2020
Giants and Hawks in driver's seat at halfway mark in NPB
by Jason Coskrey
Despite the shortened schedule, there's still plenty to look forward to in the 2020 campaign.
Japanese Baseball Aug 9, 2020
Nobumasa Fukuda brings Dragons from behind in win over Giants
In a pitchers' duel with scoring opportunities at a premium, Nobumasa Fukuda's three-run home run made all the difference as the Chunichi Dragons came from behind to beat the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 3-1 on Saturday. Giants right-hander Seishu Hatake (0-1) held the Dragons to ...
Japanese Baseball Jul 24, 2020
The Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants overpowered the Chunichi Dragons 6-1 on Thursday, with Kazuma Okamoto driving in the go-ahead run as part of a five-run rally in the eighth. Yomiuri starter Cristopher Mercedes (2-2) got the win after throwing seven innings of one-run ball. The ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Jul 20, 2020
Tigers back on prowl in Central League
by Jason Coskrey
Their resurgence continued last week at Koshien Stadium, where Hanshin took two of three against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and swept the Chunichi Dragons.
Japanese Baseball Jul 17, 2020
Takumi Oshiro homered to cap a three-run first inning as the Yomiuri Giants took advantage of tentative pitching from the Hiroshima Carp and never looked back in a 9-4 Central League win on Thursday. Carp right-hander Kazuki Yabuta (0-1) surrendered a leadoff double to Yoshiyuki ...
Japanese Baseball Jul 10, 2020
Justin Bour homered in his home debut at historic Koshien Stadium, lifting the Hanshin Tigers to a 2-1 Central League victory over the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday. Bour broke open a scoreless game in the seventh, blasting a slider up in the zone from Giants ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | The week in NPB Jul 6, 2020
Eagles soar to front of line in Pacific League after strong week
by Jason Coskrey
The top teams and the Central and Pacific Leagues had very good weeks.
Japanese Baseball Jul 3, 2020
Ginjiro Sumitani's two-run fourth-inning double broke up a scoreless tie, and right-hander Toshiki Sakurai (1-0) allowed a run over eight innings for the Yomiuri Giants in a 5-3 Central League win over the Yokohama DeNA BayStars on Thursday. The Giants had left runners in scoring ...