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YOMIURI GIANTS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 26, 2014
Giants stage ninth-inning rally against Tigers
Hanshin closer Oh Seung-hwan blew the save and the game as the Tigers let the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants walk off with a 4-3 victory Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 14, 2014
Giants close out series with tidy victory over Tigers
The Yomiuri Giants aren't giving up first place without a fight.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 12, 2014
Messenger leads charge as Tigers hold off Giants
Despite some thorns, the story kept getting rosier for Hanshin Tigers right-hander Randy Messenger.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2014
Dragons' Yamai fans seven en route to eighth victory
Daisuke Yamai allowed a run in seven innings for the Chunichi Dragons on Saturday afternoon in a 4-1 win over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 8, 2014
Giants beat Dragons to end losing streak
Chris Seddon returned from minor league exile on Friday evening and threw 5⅓ sharp innings for the Yomiuri Giants, who beat the Chunichi Dragons 6-3 to snap a four-game losing streak.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2014
Miura tosses complete-game victory against Giants
Daisuke Miura allowed a run over the distance to earn his third straight win as the Yokohama BayStars stomped the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 10-1 on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 6, 2014
Solid pitching, 15-hit attack carry BayStars past Giants
Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi held Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants to an unearned run over six innings, and veteran Hitoshi Tamura hit a two-run homer on Wednesday as the Yokohama BayStars beat the Giants 6-2.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 3, 2014
Sixth-inning offensive outburst carries Carp past Giants
The Hiroshima Carp may still have fond feelings for Kan Otake, but in the middle of a pennant race it's every man for himself.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 2, 2014
Utsumi savors win as Giants beat Carp
Home runs by Hayato Sakamoto and Shinnosuke Abe lifted the Yomiuri Giants to a 3-1 win on Saturday over the Hiroshima Carp and earned ace Tetsuya Utsumi his first win in over two months.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2014
Fukudome belts winning blast in 12th
Kosuke Fukudome came through when his team needed him the most, delivering a 12th-inning, walk-off home run to lift the Hanshin Tigers to a 3-2 victory over the archrival Yomiuri Giants on Tuesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 21, 2014
Contenders begin second half with eyes on prize
While the NPB All-Star Series doesn't land exactly at the midpoint of the season it splits the year in two very well symbolically if not mathematically. No matter how you slice it, the regular season resumed on Monday, signaling the start of a two month race to the finish line.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 14, 2014
Swallows rout Giants at Tokyo Dome
Masanori Ishikawa got more than enough run support against fellow lefty Tetsuya Utsumi, Tetsuto Yamada homered and drove in three runs, and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows ran roughshod over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants in a 12-1 rout on Monday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 13, 2014
Sekimoto slugs seventh-inning grand slam against Giants
Pinch hitter Kentaro Sekimoto hit a grand slam with two outs in the seventh inning, lifting the Hanshin Tigers in a rally past the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants en route to a 6-4 victory on Sunday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 11, 2014
Tigers cruise past Giants for eighth straight victory
Tsuyoshi Nishioka was at the plate in the sixth inning with his team leading 4-2 and runners on second and third, when the Yomiuri Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei trotted in from left field to serve as a fifth infielder, setting up camp between shortstop and third base.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 9, 2014
Goto goes deep as BayStars blank Giants
Taketoshi Goto hit a three-run home run in the early going as the Yokohama BayStars downed the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 6, 2014
Takahashi lifts Giants to win over Dragons
Yoshinobu Takahashi hit a tiebreaking two-run single with two outs in the eighth inning Sunday to lift the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants to a 3-1 win that completed a three-game sweep of the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 5, 2014
Chono leads Dragons past Dragons in 10th
Hisayoshi Chono went 3-for-5 with three RBIs, featuring a tiebreaking RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning that lifted Yomiuri to a 7-6 sayonara victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 2, 2014
Kokubo sacrifice fly lifts Carp over Giants
The Hiroshima Carp outlasted the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants in a tense 4-3 win on Wednesday evening, with Tetsuya Kokubo coming off the bench to drive in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jun 30, 2014
Kamei breathes new life into Giants
Yoshiyuki Kamei was added to the Yomiuri Giants' roster on May 31 and he started his season with a bang. His first hit of the year came that night, and it was a tiebreaking home run in the 12th inning of a game in which the Kyojin had been held hitless for the first 10 frames. Yomiuri went on to win...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 22, 2014
Giants pound Hawks, snatch interleague title
The Yomiuri Giants and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks met in a winner-take-all matchup with a title hanging in the balance on Sunday afternoon. It wasn't the prize the two teams are hoping to play for in the fall, but for the Giants at least, it was a good start.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last July.
Japan survey finds 30% of student interns experience sexual harassment
The proportion of recent graduates in Japan who have worked as interns have experienced sexual harassment during their internship was 30.1%, according to a labor ministry survey, up 4.6 percentage points from the previous survey in fiscal 2020.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
The politicians moving Japan forward on climate
While not the most outspoken politician on the issue, digital minister Taro Kono has a track record of being serious in his commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
Seoul's eclectic Art OnO shines light on Japan's artists and galleries
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