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The Orix Buffaloes have tied the Japan Series up with a ninth inning walk-off homer by Yoshida Masatoka, beating the Yakult Swallows 6-4 in game 5. The day prior, the Buffaloes won 1-0 in game four of the series. Because Game three was a tie, Read More …
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are two games away from becoming back-to-back champions. The team that has dominated the NPB this year, won 7-1 in game three. The Swallows took game 1 winning 5-3, while game 2 was a tie game at 3-3, game 4 will Read More …
Murakami Munetaka (22) hit his 55th homerun on September 13th, tying the record set by Oh Sadaharu (tying the Nippon Professional Baseball record for a Japanese-born player) which Oh accomplished for the Yomiuri Giants back in 1964. Now Murakami has his eyes set on breaking Read More …
A special home run award will be held to pray for Murakami Munetaka to break the Japanese season home run record. The gift is “100 million yen Tokyo House”. Open House Group Co., Ltd. (Headquarters Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President Masaaki Arai, hereinafter “our company”), as a Read More …
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows continues to be the best baseball team in the Central League and also the NPB in terms of wins/losses. The team has won 58 games and has had 36 losses. #2 is the Hanshin Tigers who won 49 and lost 47. Read More …
If you love baseball, you can’t help but enjoy how Ohtani is playing (as well if you are a Los Angeles Angels fan). While 2022 is showing us an Ohtani the pitcher, the two-way player is getting his groove back and this week alone has Read More …
What a difference a week makes. The Yomiuri Giants who started out strong being undefeated in the beginning has slipped to #2 as the Hiroshima Carp moved to the #1 spot, one game ahead of the Giants in the Central League. Last year’s NPB champions, Read More …
He’s only 20-years-old, but Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Sasaki Roki struck out 19 batters in a perfect record-setting game. The first perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball’s history since 1994 (the last player to do so was Makihara Hiromi of the Yomiuri Giants) and the Read More …
It was revealed that Ohtani Shohei, the two-way phenom and American League MVP for 2021 will be on the cover of “THE SHOW 22” on PS5, PS4, XBOX Series X|S, Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch. In Japan, baseball fans reacted with excitement. “This is Read More …
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows won game 6 at Hotto Motto Field in Kobe 2-1 in the 12 inning. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows has now won their sixth Japan Series Championship, their first since 2001. The Swallows wnning the Japan Series championship also becomes the first Read More …
This year’s Japan Series looked as if Yakult Swallows was going to win their first Japan Series since 2001 in Tokyo, until Adam Jones hit a pinch-hit home run in the 9th inning, putting the Orix Buffaloes ahead of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6-5. Game Read More …
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows beat the Orix Buffaloes 2-1 at Tokyo Dome, winning game four and putting them in the position of one game away from becoming the 2021 Japan Series Champions (their last Japan Series win was back in 2001). Game 5 will be Read More …
With the Orix Buffaloes looking as they would be taking game 3 of the Japan Series, Domingo Santana hit a two-run home run in the seventh and Swallows held off the Orix Buffaloes 5-4 at Tokyo Dome on Tuesday night. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are Read More …
The Orix Buffaloes came from behind in game 1 to win the game 4-3, but for game 2, the Yakult Swallows won 2-0. Because the Pacific League held the advantage (game 1-2 played at Kyocera Dome in Osaka), the final three games will be played Read More …
Both the Orix Buffaloes and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows will meet each other in the Japan Series after both teams tied their competitors (Chiba Lotte Marines in the Pacific League and the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in the Central League) in the final game of the Read More …