Catcher Takuya Kai launched his first home run in a Yomiuri Giants uniform Saturday during a 12-0 demolition of local Central ...

and Gakuto Wakabayashi hit a sayonara single in the 10th to lift the Kyojin to a 6-5 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the season opener at Tokyo Dome on Friday night. Wakabayashi’s fourth ...

The Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday finished at the top of the 12-team Japanese baseball preseason standings for the first time ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has ... was born in Japan, is of unknown age, and ...

On his 27th birthday, Brewers right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez made his return to the major-league mound for the first ...

TOKYO -- Japan's professional baseball team the Tokyo Yakult Swallows announced Feb. 19 that the person who performs as the club's popular mascot Tsubakuro had passed away. The team issued a ...

Next spring, after graduating from Kyoto University, Mizuno will work as an analyst for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball. He will collect and apply data gathered on ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

Watch the Cubs take on a couple of local squads The team will play exhibitions against Tokyo’s Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers. Nippon Professional ... the Yakult Swallows, and the single ...

After spending seven years in Korea and Japan, pitcher David Buchanan ... During his three years with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2017 to 2019, Buchanan recorded 71 games (433⅔ innings ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki was having his typical day on a baseball field in 2000 ... who was in the other dugout playing the final year of his career in Japan with the Yakult Swallows — couldn't ...