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Right-hander Bo Takahashi, who as a child in Brazil idolized former Seibu Lions ace Daisuke Matsuzaka, earned his first win for the Pacific League club Thursday going 5-2/3 innings in a 3-1 victory over the Orix Buffaloes. Takahashi, who pitched as high as Triple-A for the Cincinnati Reds and in South Korea, joined the Lions in 2022. Making his second start of the season, Takahashi allowed a run on three hits, a walk and a hit batsman at Kyocera Dome Osaka. "I'm really happy to get my first win," he said in Portuguese through an interpreter. "Now I want to go beyond this and win many more with...
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J-League champions Vissel Kobe will play Tottenham Hotspur in a July 27 international club friendly at Tokyo's National Stadium, the league announced Thursday. Kobe, who won their first top-division title last year, will take on the English Premier League side managed by Australian Ange Postecoglou, who previously was in charge of J-League side Yokohama F Marinos. The J-League said more matchups in its "World Challenge" series involving overseas clubs are to be announced in due course.
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Shohei Ohtani felt he had done something special the moment a mammoth 450-foot home run cracked off his bat in the Los Angeles Dodgers' series-opening win against the Washington Nationals, the Japanese superstar said Wednesday. The towering solo blast in the ninth inning of Tuesday's 4-1 victory was the hardest-hit home run of his Major League Baseball career, soaring to the second deck at Nationals Park with an exit velocity of 118.7 miles per hour, according to MLB.com. "It felt like one of the best of my life," Ohtani said during a media scrum ahead of Wednesday's meeting with the Nationals...
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Shohei Ohtani improved his batting average to a Major League Baseball-leading .371 with a 3-for-6 outing Wednesday as the Los Angeles Dodgers pummeled the Washington Nationals 11-2. The reigning American League MVP continued his hot hitting after homering in the two previous games, including a 450-foot blast that reached the second deck in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Nationals. Ohtani drove in two runs and scored two, with all three hits doubles, taking his tally to an MLB-best 14 for the season. No other player had reached double figures as of Wednesday. Mookie Betts and Will Smith both went 4...
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Yokohama F Marinos reached their first Asian Champions League final after seeing off South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai 5-4 on penalties Wednesday following a dramatic 3-3 aggregate draw. Trailing 1-0 from a week ago, Marinos went down to 10 men in the semifinal's second leg but still won 3-2 as the J-League side persevered through the tough 120-minute contest in heavy rain at International Stadium Yokohama -- during which Ulsan had 40 shots. "A huge step forward not only for the players but for the club itself to show that anything is possible," manager Harry Kewell said. "I'm over the moon for the ...
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Sheldon Neuse twice drew bases-loaded walks that put the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers in front in their wild wet 5-3 win over the DeNA BayStars on Wednesday. With Tigers lefty Masashi Ito building a no-hit bid, the game at Yokohama Stadium was halted by rain after five innings with Hanshin leading 1-0. Instead of focusing on the lead, Tigers manager Akinobu Okada left Ito in the game and it backfired. After a roughly 30-minute layoff, the lefty got through the sixth but coughed up three runs, two earned, on four seventh-inning hits. Neuse, who singled his first two times up, forced in...
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Shohei Ohtani hit another towering home run on Tuesday, driving in an insurance run in the ninth inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers' 4-1 victory over the Washington Nationals. Ohtani led off the top of the ninth by crushing a 1-0 splitter from Matt Barnes for his sixth home run of the season. The ball traveled 450 feet into the right-center second deck at Nationals Park. It was the 29-year-old slugger's 177th homer of his major league career, coming two days and one game after his No. 176 moved him past Hideki Matsui for the most home runs by a Japanese-born major leaguer. Before Ohtani's blast...
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Kohei Arihara struck out nine and finished what he started in the SoftBank Hawks' 4-2 Pacific League victory over Roki Sasaki and the Lotte Marines on Tuesday. Arihara allowed three hits and a walk, all after his teammates gave him a 2-0 fourth-inning lead at Zozo Marine Stadium. "I wanted to work carefully tonight and locate well, and I was able to do that," Arihara (2-2) said after throwing 107 pitches. Sasaki (2-1) struck out four while allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits and two walks over seven innings. Poor command cost him in the fourth inning when the first two Hawks singled ...
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Yusei Kikuchi struck out four over six strong innings as he pitched the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-3 win against the Kansas City Royals on Monday. Kikuchi (2-1) won his second straight start after allowing two earned runs on five hits and no walks at Kauffman Stadium. The Japanese lefty did not surrender a run until Maikel Garcia's two-run homer on a 2-2 pitch with one out in the bottom of the sixth. Bo Bichette gave the Blue Jays a 3-0 lead in the third inning with his bases-clearing triple. The visitors then went up 5-0 on Daulton Varsho's two-run blast in the sixth.
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Japan will face hosts Qatar in the quarterfinals of the U-23 Asian Cup after a 1-0 loss to South Korea on Monday consigned Go Oiwa's men to a second-place finish in Group B. Kim Min Woo's 75th-minute header secured South Korea first place and a meeting with Indonesia in the last eight of the Olympic qualifying event, which will send the top three teams to the men's football tournament in Paris. Japan and South Korea had both won their two previous games, leaving them with identical records coming into their group-stage finale. "We'd love to have won but will look to switch our focus as we have...
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