Chicago Cubs fans take pride in being underdogs, a role that ended briefly when they won the World Series in 2016 to end a ...

Masanori Murakami making history as the first Japanese player to make it to MLB. That's incredibly rich stuff. I kind of wish every baseball game could be like this — a fun celebration of the ...

Sasaki pitched for four seasons in the NPB, so it only made sense for him to debut in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform in Japan ... acclimated to a different baseball impacted him.

Marc-Alexis Cote originally said that Assassin's Creed Shadow's historically-steeped context "lets players ... his studded baseball bat-like kanabo (the weapon of the Oni in Japanese folklore ...

Like the Yankees in 2004, the Red Sox had a star Japanese player who'd recently made the ... on the strength of Rich Harden's six sharp innings of one-run, nine-strikeout baseball. March 28-29, 2012: ...

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...

The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

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

Yamamoto signed a $325 million, 12-year deal last offseason and was asked a few weeks ago at spring training in Arizona if the loss of great players could hurt Japanese baseball. “That’s a ...

Professional baseball across the Pacific has a history that also involves Hawaiʻi. Before former Cubs outfielder Kosuke ...