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The all-Kansai Japan Series between the Hanshin Tigers and the defending champions, the ORIX Buffaloes is now over. And the Hanshin Tigers are the champs! The Hanshin Tigers and the Orix Buffaloes were tied 3 wins apiece and with one game left, the Hanshin Tigers Read More …
Hanshin Tigers fans who hoped their team would finally win a Japan Series for the first time in 38 years, learned that the defending champs, the ORIX Buffaloes were not going to give up without a fight! The ORIX Buffaloes took game 6 with a Read More …
Down 2 games to 1 in the Japan Series, the Hanshin Tigers won their Wednesday and Thursday games to now be 3-2 in the best of seven series. In a thrilling game five, Hanshin Tigers came alive in the eighth inning to score six runs Read More …
The defending champions, the ORIX Buffaloes of the Pacific League are up 2-1 in the Japan Series against the Hanshin Tigers. The championship is the first all-Kansai Japan Series since 1964. The Buffaloes pulled ahead 5-4 in game 3 with game 4 slated for Wednesday Read More …
The Climax Series is now over and now we have a showdown as the Hiroshima Carp win 4-2 against the Yokohama DeNA Baystars to secure a Central League finals matchup against the dominating Hanshin Tigers. Meanwhile, the Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Softbank Hawks with Read More …
The Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes continue to top the NPB. The Tigers have a 5 game lead ahead of the Hiroshima Carp in the Central League. While last year’s NPB champions, the Orix Buffaloes have a commanding l0.5 game lead ahead of the Chiba Read More …
The Orix Buffaloes showed why they deserved to be champions this year! The team which have not won a championship since 1996 (when Suzuki Ichiro was a member of Orix Blue Waves and before the merger with the Kintetsu Buffaloes), took advantage of costly errors Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Orix Buffaloes are one game away from the Japan Series. Both Yakult and Orix won the pennant for the Central and Pacific League last week, and automatically gives them each 1 win. In the Central League, Yakult defeated the Read More …