Chunichi Dragons rookie Raidel Martinez earned his first NPB win after early homers and late runs solidified a 10-4 victory against the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday. Martinez (1-1) retired the first 11 of 13 Carp batters before the right-hander gave up four runs at Nagoya ...
Champion Hawks honored with Japan's top pro sports award
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks fittingly received the nation's top pro sports accolade for their dominant season in 2017. The Nippon Professional Baseball club was bestowed the grand prize for the first time at the 50th Japan Pro Sports Awards in Tokyo on Wednesday. Boxer Ryota Murata, ...
SoftBank's Dennis Sarfate, Hiroshima's Yoshihiro Maru win NPB MVP awards
Dennis Sarfate considers himself a traditionalist, and as such, he might not have cast a ballot for himself, a reliever, in the MVP race. It's probably a good thing he didn't have a say then. Sarfate may or may not have given himself a vote, but ...
Samurai Japan southpaw Shota Imanaga baffles Taiwan batters in dazzling 12-strikeout performance
The way Shota Imanaga was pitching with a one-run lead took almost all the mystery out of Samurai Japan's game against Taiwan. Well, all of the mystery except the question of whether the next batter would strike out swinging or looking. Fresh off a Japan ...
