Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. The Japanese triple crown winner delivered a walk-off double in a 6-5 thriller against Mexico on March 20 ...
Cheers erupted across Japan as the Samurai Japan’s victory over Team USA in the World Baseball Classic final in Miami sent fans in homes, ballparks and public viewing locales into ecstasy. The ...
Team USA can win its second straight World Baseball Classic title when it squares off against two-time champion Japan in the 2023 WBC championship game on Tuesday at loanDepot park in Miami.
Shohei Ohtani rarely shows emotion on the baseball field. But when he roped a double to the right center field gap in the bottom of the ninth on Monday night, Ohtani swung his arms up, yelling at ...
Shohei Ohtani told Japanese reporters Sunday that he would be available only to pitch out of the bullpen in the World Baseball Classic final Tuesday should Japan beat Mexico in the semifinals.
Ahead of what has been called the biggest event in the history of Japanese boxing, International Boxing Hall of Fame ...
Japan's undisputed super-bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue said an early scare got him "fired up" after he stopped ...
Jason Moloney's desperate attempts for a final-second knockout fall short, the Australian losing his WBO bantamweight world boxing title to Japanese upstart Yoshiki Takei in Tokyo.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t expecting that. The pitch of the cheers was different, the weigh-ins, the pageantry, the respect, the routines, it was all different.
Andrew Moloney will be aiming to make his twin brother proud when he battles Mexican Pedro Guevara for the vacant WBC interim ...
Naoya Inoue looks to bolster his claim as the world’s best pound-for-pound boxer against Luis Nery. Follow along with Bryan Graham ...
The Chicago Cubs may have just found a diamond. While the talks of Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominated the 2023-24 offseason, there was one other Japanese pitcher who was stepping foot into the US.