Baseball
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Japan baseball stars Munetaka Murakami and Yoshinobu Yamamoto earn MVP honors
Tokyo Yakult Swallows’ record-setting slugger Munetaka Murakami was unanimously voted 2022 Central L...
November 26, 2022
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Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami to receive prefectural honor
KUMAMOTO — Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima said Thursday that he would bestow the prefecture’s honor ...
November 24, 2022
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Aaron Judge wins AL MVP award
New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge has won the American League’s MVP award, preventing Los Angele...
November 18, 2022
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Shohei Ohtani ‘looking forward’ to playing in WBC next March
Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani announced Thursday that he had told Samurai Japan mana...
November 17, 2022
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Global superstar Shohei Ohtani to appear in university English textbook
Superstar Major League Baseball player Shohei Ohtani has been rewriting baseball history books with ...
November 15, 2022
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Triple Crown star Murakami eyes future jump to majors
Coming off one of the most productive seasons in Japan pro baseball history, Tokyo Yakult Swallows ...
November 14, 2022
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Orix skipper Nakajima named winner of Shoriki Award
Orix Buffaloes manager Satoshi Nakajima, who led the Pacific League club to its first Japan Series t...
November 9, 2022
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Alvarez blasts Astros to World Series title in G6 vs. Phils
HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Alvarez hit a towering go-ahead homer and the Houston Astros clinched their se...
November 6, 2022
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Ichiro pitches, Matsuzaka hits in exhibition
Two of Japan’s greatest baseball players of all time were back in uniform and on the field. But it ...
November 4, 2022
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Buffaloes win 1st Japan Series since 1996
The last time the Orix Buffaloes won a Japan Series, they were known as the BlueWave, millennial was...
October 31, 2022
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The Orix Buffaloes beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-4, winning their first Japan Series title in 26 years.
The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] The Orix Buffaloes beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallow...
October 31, 2022
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Orix in position to capture title
The Orix Buffaloes won their third consecutive Japan Series game over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on S...
October 30, 2022
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Realmuto, Phils rally past Astros in 10 to open World Series
HOUSTON (AP) — J.T. Realmuto homered in the 10th inning and the Philadelphia Phillies, saved by righ...
October 29, 2022
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Baker’s storytelling a hit with Astros as Series begins
HOUSTON (AP) — Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. was asked for a simple description of Houston mana...
October 29, 2022
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Yoshida HRs help Buffaloes even Series
OSAKA — The Orix Buffaloes threw their weight around at the end of a seesaw game to even the Japan S...
October 28, 2022
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