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Carson McCusker hit three home runs in one game earlier this month for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Baseball is now well behind football, which more than 40% of Americans said was their favorite sport to watch in 2023. Baseball is Japan’s pastime in a way it isn’t for America anymore. The key will ...

When Hideo Nomo joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 as the first MLB player from Japan in three decades, his Rookie of the ...

Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki will sign with the Miami Marlins and forgo a professional career in his home country ...

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

SAN ANTONIO, Zambales — A Philippine youth baseball team returned home with a bronze medal in the 10U Pony All Japan Baseball ...

On the morning of the second and final game of Major League Baseball's Tokyo Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 19, a dusting of snow fell on Japan's capital city — an ...

Sho-Time: TK million Japanese fans tuned in to see Shohei Ohtani hit his first postseason home run in Game 5 of the NLDS. Baseball has long been known as America’s pastime, but during the 2024 MLB ...

Shohei Ohtani takes the field for the Los Angeles Dodgers in a game against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, Apr. 24, 2024. For baseball fans, it is natural for such a successful player to ...

TOKYO — The business of baseball looks a little different in Japan than it does in the U.S. One of the most popular sports souvenirs? Towels. Many varieties of towels, with printed images of top ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball ...