Kenya Wakatsuki hit a walk-off double to give the Orix Buffaloes a 3-2 victory over the Rakuten Eagles as Nippon Professional Baseball opened its 2025 season Friday. Earlier in the game, Hiroya Miyagi ...

With the team going with a bullpen day for their first exhibition game in Japan, Merryweather opened for the Cubs against the NPB’s Hanshin Tigers. And after a relatively subdued first half inning, ...

The Carp are among the 28 Asian professional baseball teams, as they compete in Nippon Professional Baseball, and were ...

Having the regular season start before Opening Day is a prospect as indulgent as it is unreal—once you’re up early to watch ...

The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago Cubs in the first two ...

Facing the Hanshin Tigers and hearing the team’s cheering section was a blast from the recent past for the former Hiroshima Carp star.

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki will open the 2025 MLB season in Tokyo on March 18. Read ...

Instead, he was pitching for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan. He played 20 combined games with Hiroshima with ... However, Japan gave him a new baseball perspective that he didn’t know he needed.