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YOMIURI GIANTS

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2019
Dragons complete three-city series sweep of Giants
The Chunichi Dragons beat the Yomiuri Giants here, they beat them there and, for this series at least, they beat them everywhere.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2019
Giants' Hayato Sakamoto sets personal record with 32nd homer in triumph over Tigers
Just like the weather outside of the relatively comfortable and cool confines of Tokyo Dome, the Yomiuri Giants are starting to heat up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2019
Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei delivers sayonara sacrifice fly in 10th to down Swallows
The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2019
Warren Cromartie still eager to pitch in to help Giants, Expos
Warren Cromartie says he's always been a team player.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Aug 5, 2019
Central League set up for exciting race to finish line
Things looked so simple in the Central League at the All-Star break.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 2, 2019
Tatsunori Hara has shot at top 10 for most wins by a manager
Tatsunori Hara moved into rarefied air when his Yomiuri Giants beat the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday night, becoming the 13th NPB manager to reach 1,000 career victories.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 1, 2019
Carp continue post-All-Star surge with one-sided victory over Giants
The Hiroshima Carp look like a team that's not quite ready to give up the Central League pennant they've held onto for the past three seasons — at least not without a fight.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 26, 2019
Tigers' Yangervis Solarte enjoys memorable NPB debut, slugging game-winning homer against Giants
Yangervis Solarte hasn't even been in Japan that long and yet Hanshin Tigers fans already love him.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jul 8, 2019
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 4, 2019
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 22, 2019
Giants whip Hawks, stay in contention for interleague crown
It'll essentially be winner-take-all for this season's interleague title.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 12, 2019
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2019
Giants bats support returning ace Tomoyuki Sugano in big win over Marines
Yomiuri Giants fans used their cheers to welcome ace pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano back to the diamond.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 8, 2019
Marines rally past Giants in ninth
The Chiba Lotte Marines were on the road, missing some key players because of injuries, down a run and three outs away from a loss.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2019
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.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 13, 2019
'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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 30, 2019
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 29, 2019
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 it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 27, 2019
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 14, 2019
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.

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