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Jason Coskrey

Jason Coskrey is a sports writer for The Japan Times. His primary focus is Japanese baseball, but he has also covered soccer, American football, boxing and basketball. He previously worked for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga. A native of Detroit, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 17, 2007

Glynn comes up with goods

SAPPORO — With the Chiba Lotte Marines threatening to take control of the series, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters were looking for a good game out of starting pitcher Ryan Glynn. He responded with the game of his life.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 16, 2007

Marines level series

SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters posed for their Pacific League Championship picture after Game 2, but all the in-game glamour shots belonged to Tomoya Satozaki.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 16, 2007

Nishioka, Morimoto spark ballclubs as leadoff hitters

SAPPORO — Chiba Lotte's Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Nippon Ham's Hichori Morimoto are two of the biggest stars in Japanese baseball, despite neither really hitting for a lot of power or driving in a lot of runs.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 16, 2007

Big seventh inning propels Fighters

SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are a tight-knit group known for going that extra mile for one another. Against the Chiba Lotte Marines in Game 3 they went the extra mile and then some.

Japan Times

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 14, 2007

Darvish fires Fighters to win

SAPPORO — On a day when the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters came up with all the big hits, the Chiba Lotte Marines still couldn't find an answer for Yu Darvish.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 13, 2007

Marines, Fighters set to square off

Here are five key questions ahead of the second stage of the Pacific League Climax Series between the last two Japan Series Champions, the Chiba Lotte Marines and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters:

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 13, 2007

Will mercurial Tigers end slump?

Here are five questions heading into the first stage of the Central League Climax Series between the Hanshin Tigers and Chunichi Dragons:

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 12, 2007

Lotte's Naruse becomes dominant force on hill

CHIBA — Chiba Lotte Marines hurler Yoshihisa Naruse may look young off the mound, but over the past eight months the 21-year-old has looked more like an 10-year veteran on it.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 11, 2007

Omura, Naruse lift Marines in series clincher

CHIBA — After the Chiba Lotte Marines' Game 1 Pacific League Climax Series victory Lotte manager Bobby Valentine said that nobody had bigger guts than Saburo Omura. Fittingly in the series clincher, nobody had a bigger hit.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 10, 2007

Hawks level up series

CHIBA — After a while it didn't really seem to matter who was on the mound for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS

Oct 9, 2007

Marines draw first blood against Hawks

CHIBA — On a windy day on Tokyo Bay, the Chiba Lotte Marines picked up where they left off in the 2005 playoffs and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks starter Kazumi Saito's playoff woes continued.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 9, 2007

Saito still struggling when it comes to playoffs

CHIBA — Softbank pitcher Kazumi Saito will have to wait for redemption a little while longer.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 3, 2007

Giants rally past Swallows to clinch Central League crown

Thousands of Yomiuri fans turned out for the Giants' game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome looking for a celebration, and the home team made sure they got one.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 27, 2007

Giants stage comeback to beat Dragons at Dome

The much anticipated pitching duel between Kenta Asakura and Hisanori Takahashi fizzled early but Ryota Wakiya and Takahiko Nomaguchi still put on a show.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 26, 2007

Giants put on power show against Dragons, reclaim CL lead

When the Yomiuri Giants' offense is clicking the Kyojin are a hard team to beat. When they get the pitching to go along with that, they're almost unbeatable.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 25, 2007

Ham hurlers make Fighters tasty-looking prospect for Japan Series

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' offense has faced incredible struggles in the absence of star centerfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Michihiro Ogasawara and rank toward the bottom in most of the Pacific League offensive categories.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 24, 2007

Tanaka bids Tokyo Dome a fond farewell

Barring a meeting with the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Yukio Tanaka played his final game at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday night against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and he went out with a bang.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 20, 2007

Darvish backed up by offense as Fighters down Eagles

Yu Darvish wasn't as dominant as he usually is but with the Fighters' offense clicking for once he didn't have to be.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 19, 2007

Takeda settles down, pitches big game

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters still aren't getting much run support, but as long as they keep winning they'll take what they can get.

Japan Times

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 16, 2007

Takahashi lives up to 'ace' label

On a pitching staff that has been plagued by a string of bad games, Yomiuri Giants ace Hisanori Takahashi pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Giants to a 3-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Saturday night before a packed house at Tokyo Dome.

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