Giants pinch hitter Shinnosuke Shigenobu delivers game-winning double in ninth against Swallows
Pinch hitter Shinnosuke Shigenobu lofted a fly ball to the wall that fell for a game-winning double, lifting the Yomiuri Giants to a 6-5 walk-off win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Tuesday. Before a crowd of 33,331 at Kyocera Dome, the Central League-leading Giants ...
Giants beginning to hit stride ahead of All-Star break
Following a spring training game against the Seattle Mariners in March, Yomiuri Giants manager Tastunori Hara mused that the MLB club's lineup looked similar to his own. Hara was specifically referencing the Mariners using one of their best hitters, Mitch Haniger, in the No. 2 ...
Shun Yamaguchi struck out 12 batters over eight innings, doubled and scored the winning run for the Yomiuri Giants in their 8-4 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Friday. The right-hander allowed two runs on two hits and three walks to improve to 9-2. With ...
Giants grab early lead against Dragons, extend winning streak to five
All it took was one ball, right were Hayato Sakamoto likes it, for the suddenly surging Yomiuri Giants to get off and running toward another victory. Sakamoto connected on his first grand slam in six years, Nobutaka Imamura ended a long winless drought and the ...
Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano tosses six-hit shutout against Dragons
Tomoyuki Sugano threw a complete game shutout Tuesday as he steered the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants to a 6-0 win over the Chunichi Dragons. The performance was a welcome turnaround for the Giants ace, who lasted just one inning in a 5-1 loss to the ...
Tsuyoshi Wada, Shuhei Fukuda lead Hawks past Giants to interleague title
Tsuyoshi Wada threw five masterful innings, and Shuhei Fukuda homered twice as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks clinched their eighth interleague championship with a 5-1 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday. The 38-year-old Wada (1-1), who missed all of the 2018 season due to injury, ...
Giants whip Hawks, stay in contention for interleague crown
It'll essentially be winner-take-all for this season's interleague title. The Yomiuri Giants made sure of that. Shun Yamaguchi remained hot on the mound, Yoshihiro Maru remained hot at the plate and the Kyojin remained in contention for the interleague crown with a 7-2 victory over the ...
Shuhei Fukuda crushes sixth-inning grand slam as Hawks soar past Giants
Pinch hitter Shuhei Fukuda broke a 2-2 tie with a sixth-inning grand slam to lift the interleague-leading Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to an 8-3 come-from-behind victory over the Yomiuri Giants on Friday. Hawks starter Kodai Senga (7-2) allowed two runs as he scattered six hits and ...
Giants' Yoshihiro Maru spearheads comeback victory over Buffaloes
Two-time Central League MVP Yoshihiro Maru proved to be a one-man wrecking crew Thursday, driving in four runs in the Yomiuri Giants' 4-2 come-from-behind interleague win over the Orix Buffaloes. Maru tied the game 2-2 in the sixth inning off right-hander Kohei "K" Suzuki (1-4), ...
Giants' Daikan Yoh comes through in clutch in triumph over Buffaloes
Daikan Yoh delivered a pinch-hit, game-winning RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead the Yomiuri Giants to a 4-3 victory over the Orix Buffaloes in interleague play on Tuesday. Giants left-hander Nobutaka Imamura gave up one unearned run in his six-inning ...
Reliever Scott Mathieson happy to be back on mound for Giants
Scott Mathieson had appeared in 393 games for the Yomiuri Giants entering this season. Over the past seven years, he's come out the Yomiuri bullpen mostly tasked with either protecting leads, keeping the Kyojin in games or closing out wins. Mathieson has been a vital ...
Emergency starter Yasuo Sano, reliever Kyle Martin guide Lions past Giants
Yasuo Sano threw four innings in an emergency start, then Kyle Martin added three innings of relief as the Seibu Lions shut out the Yomiuri Giants 4-0 in interleague play on Tuesday. Sano made his first start of the season after scheduled starter Tatsuya Imai ...
