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Yomiuri Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano was named winner of the prestigious Eiji Sawamura Award on Monday for the second straight year. The 29-year-old is the first pitcher to win the award in consecutive seasons since former Giants ace and Hall of Fame inductee Masaki Saito ...
Days after former big leaguer Koji Uehara announced he was eager to continue playing next season, the Yomiuri Giants are considering releasing the 43-year-old reliever, an official source said Sunday. Uehara underwent surgery to clean out his left knee on Tuesday, and the Giants will ...
The saga of Japan's most storied pro baseball team took a new twist on Tuesday, when former Tatsunori Hara rejoined the Yomiuri Giants as skipper for the third time. The 60-year-old Hara, the skipper of Japan's second World Baseball Classic championship team in 2009, guided ...
Former skipper Tatsunori Hara appears poised to rejoin Giants
Former Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara appeared ready Monday to return to the club as manager next year. Hara, who has been asked by the Central League club to manage next season's campaign, is scheduled to appear at a press conference on Tuesday along with ...
The Hiroshima Carp clinched their second Japan Series berth in three years on Friday with a 5-1 victory over the Yomiuri Giants in Game 3 of the Central League Climax Series Final Stage. The Carp started the six-game final stage at Mazda Stadium with a ...
Carp rally past Giants in eighth, move win away from trip to Japan Series
Pinch hitter Takahiro Arai tied the game in the bottom of the eighth before Ryosuke Kikuchi blasted a three-run homer as the Hiroshima Carp came back to beat the Yomiuri Giants 4-1 in Game 2 of the Central League Climax Series Final Stage ...
Giants riding wave of momentum into final stage showdown against Carp
Tomoyuki Sugano turned, slapped his glove and thrust both arms into air once the ball was safely secure in Daikan Yoh's glove in center field. He wore a broad smile as catcher Seiji Kobayashi enveloped him in a hug near the mound at Jingu ...
Tomoyuki Sugano-no: near-perfect game sends Giants to CL Climax Series final
If there was any lingering doubt about who Japan's best pitcher was, Tomoyuki Sugano put it to rest. Just like he did the Tokyo Yakult Swallows' season. Sugano sent the Yomiuri Giants to the next round of the postseason in style, twirling a no-hitter in the ...
Giants seize opportunities in Game 1 triumph over Swallows
Without hesitation, the Swallows sent their Giants killer to the mound for Saturday's postseason series opener, but it did not work out the way they had hoped. Instead, the Giants who came through, scoring key late runs and relying on solid pitching in their 4-1 ...
The race to the Japan Series begins Saturday as the Central and Pacific League Climax Series' first stages get underway in Tokyo and Fukuoka. Each league's second-place team will host their third-place league rival in the three-game first stages. Each first-stage winner will advance to ...
Giants rally past Tigers, clinch Climax Series berth on final day of season
Kazuma Okamoto belted two home runs to help the Yomiuri Giants clinch a playoff spot with a 9-4 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Tuesday. Okamoto broke a 4-4, seventh-inning tie with his 32nd home run of the season. The 22-year-old then put the icing ...
Tomoyuki Sugano throws eighth shutout of season as Giants blank Carp
Tomoyuki Sugano became the first pitcher in 40 years to throw eight shutouts in a season as he and the Yomiuri Giants blanked the Hiroshima Carp 4-0 on Thursday. Sugano (15-8) struck out 11 and completed his four-hitter without issuing a walk. He pulled even ...
