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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 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 …
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 …
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 …
This is the first time in NPB history, where the last place teams of both Central and Pacific Leagues in 2020, emerged as the pennant winner in 2021. The Swallows won their eighth Central League Championship, which all came down to the Hanshin Tigers, who Read More …
Many people were expecting Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yamada Tetsuto to jump to the MLB during free agency, but the talented/popular infielder decided to not exercise his right to play in the MLB and stay in the NPB. On November 18th, Yamada informed the team that Read More …