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YOSHITOMO TSUTSUGO

BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 11, 2017
BayStars look to replicate Carp's 2016 success
Can the Yokohama BayStars become this year's Hiroshima Carp?
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 8, 2017
Matsuda, Tsutsugo carry Japan past Cuba in WBC opener
The fans waited as Nobuhiro Matsuda rounded the bases and exchanged high-fives with his teammates. They knew what was coming, and when Matsuda pumped his fist and let out a guttural yell, as is his custom after home runs, the Japanese fans packed in Tokyo Dome exploded with enough force to knock the roof off the Big Egg.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 5, 2017
Happy-go-lucky Tsutsugo embracing leadership role
It took Yoshitomo Tsutsugo a few years to realize his potential, and now the left-handed hitting slugger wants other Japanese to learn that baseball is as much about joy and heart as practice and discipline.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 1, 2016
BayStars give slugger Tsutsugo a hefty salary increase
The Yokohama BayStars gave Yoshitomo Tsutsugo a huge pay raise and re-signed the outfielder Thursday to an annual salary of ¥300 million (about $2.6 million) for next season.
BASEBALL
Nov 13, 2016
Samurai Japan likely to sweep Nakata from cleanup spot
After four games against Mexico and the Netherlands, Samurai Japan manager Hiroki Kokubo's experiment with Sho Nakata as a cleanup hitter appears to be over.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2016
Samurai Japan has first practice ahead of four-game series
Despite some of its members having just completed a long season, Japan's men's national baseball team donned their Samurai Japan uniforms and took the field with a lot of energy for their first practice ahead of this week's four-game exhibition series against Mexico and the Netherlands.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2016
BayStars make Climax Series debut against rival Giants
The Yokohama BayStars, the only team that had not yet played in the Climax Series since the postseason format was introduced in 2007, are up against a postseason regular, the Yomiuri Giants, as their best-of-three first-stage series begins Saturday at Tokyo Dome.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 23, 2016
BayStars demolish Giants with six-homer attack
The Yokohama BayStars are happy, not satisfied, to have secured an A-Class finish in the Central League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Sep 20, 2016
BayStars could be primed to follow Carp's example in CL
The Yokohama BayStars, after 18 seasons without postseason baseball and 11 without an A-Class finish, probably weren't going to be very picky about how those two things got crossed off of their to-do list.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 5, 2016
Taguchi, Tsutsugo nab CL MVP honors for July; PL accolades go to Arihara, Adachi
Yomiuri Giants lefty Kazuto Taguchi was recognized for his sparkling record in July by being named the Central League's pitcher of the month on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2016
BayStars' Tsutsugo delivers game-ending homer in 12th to conquer Giants
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo might not have gotten a chance to win the game in the 10th, but he wasn't going to be denied in the 12th.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 16, 2016
Action-packed All-Star Series finale ends in 5-5 tie
There were home runs, some great plays, a few not-so-great plays and a host of other things in between.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 15, 2016
Home runs propel Central League past Pacific League in All-Star Series opener
Three solo home runs helped the Central League edge the Pacific League 5-4 on Friday to claim Game 1 of this summer's All-Star series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 10, 2016
Tsutsugo provides clutch hit to carry BayStars past Buffaloes
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo's eighth-inning RBI single broke up a tie game and starter Yasutomo Kubo pitched into the eighth as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Orix Buffaloes 3-1 in interleague action on Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 29, 2016
BayStars' Tsutsugo sidelined with muscle strain
Yokohama BayStars cleanup hitter Yoshitomo Tsutsugo was deactivated on Friday due to a muscle strain, the Central League club said.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Dec 13, 2015
Iron man Tsutsugo still going strong in December
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo has been very busy this year.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 15, 2015
Tsutsugo quietly playing vital role for Samurai Japan
Overshadowed by the home runs hit by Sho Nakata and Nobuhiro Matsuda, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo was something of an unsung hero in Japan's 10-2 victory over the United States on Saturday night in the Premier 12.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 13, 2015
Japan stays unbeaten as Nakata stars again
For the second night in a row, Sho Nakata stole the show.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 13, 2015
BayStars' Tsutsugo slugs game-winning blast in ninth
A game might look over, and it might feel over, but as Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yokohama BayStars taught the Yomiuri Giants' Tomoyuki Sugano, nothing is over until the final out is in the books.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 14, 2015
BayStars storm past Giants with seven-run fifth
The Yokohama BayStars turned the game around on its head with seven runs in the fifth inning as they beat the Yomiuri Giants 10-3 on Tuesday.

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