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YOKOHAMA BAYSTARS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2014
Giants capture 45th regular-season title
The Yomiuri Giants clinched their 45th league title in franchise history on Friday, when they defeated the Yokohama BayStars 6-3.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 15, 2014
Blanco slays Dragons with sayonara home run
Tony Blanco's pinch-hit solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning on Monday lifted the Yokohama BayStars to a 4-3 walk-off win over the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 12, 2014
Utsumi blanks BayStars as Giants widen lead
Tetsuya Utsumi threw a four-hit shutout as the Yomiuri Giants cruised past the Yokohama BayStars 4-0 on Friday and moved five games clear at the top of the Central League standings.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 6, 2014
O'Malley, Ramirez are worth a look as skippers
Now in the final month of the 2014 Japanese baseball regular season, the "A-Class" teams in the Central and Pacific leagues look forward to October's Climax Series of playoffs, while the three also-rans in both divisions begin thinking about next year.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Sep 1, 2014
Cuban stars battle minor injuries during first year in Japan
Cuban slugger Alfredo Despaigne returned to the Chiba Lotte Marines lineup Sunday afternoon after a few days of convalescing from the discomfort in his left side that had kept him out since Aug. 22.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2014
Miura delivers another quality start for BayStars
Forty-year-old ace Daisuke Miura threw seven innings on Thursday night to win his fifth straight start as the Yokohama BayStars beat the third-place Hiroshima Carp 3-0.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Aug 18, 2014
Miura adding to legacy with recent success for BayStars
Daisuke Miura is turning back the clock in Yokohama.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 16, 2014
Skipper Nakahata building new identity with BayStars
Three years ago, it might have been difficult to identify Kiyoshi Nakahata with a Japanese professional baseball team other than the Yomiuri Giants. He played his entire career with the Kyojin, served as a coach with the team after his playing days were finished and stayed in the family as a commentator...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2014
Miura tosses complete-game victory against Giants
Daisuke Miura allowed a run over the distance to earn his third straight win as the Yokohama BayStars stomped the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 10-1 on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 6, 2014
Solid pitching, 15-hit attack carry BayStars past Giants
Right-hander Shun Yamaguchi held Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants to an unearned run over six innings, and veteran Hitoshi Tamura hit a two-run homer on Wednesday as the Yokohama BayStars beat the Giants 6-2.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 20, 2014
BayStars take Gurriel off active roster
New Cuban import Yulieski Gurriel was deactivated on Sunday due to muscle inflammation in his left side, the Yokohama BayStars announced on Sunday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 9, 2014
Goto goes deep as BayStars blank Giants
Taketoshi Goto hit a three-run home run in the early going as the Yokohama BayStars downed the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 3-0 on Wednesday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 7, 2014
BayStars' Gourriel could be in line for rare honor
The Yokohama BayStars don't look like they're going to do much winning this season. The team can, however, be associated with at least one historic victory at the conclusion of the season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 29, 2014
Aizawa homers in ninth as Carp storm past BayStars
Tsubasa Aizawa hit a tiebreaking home run with one out in the ninth inning, Brad Eldred went deep twice, and the second-place Hiroshima Carp rallied once to beat the Yokohama BayStars 7-5 on Sunday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2014
Hurler Maeda guides Carp to sixth straight victory
The Hiroshima Carp resumed the regular season with a bang on Friday, cruising to their sixth straight victory in a 6-0 whitewash of the Yokohama BayStars.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 26, 2014
BayStars finish with winning record in interleague play
Yokohama's Yasutomo Kubo limited the damage to one run in seven innings and the bullpen held their opponent hitless the rest of the way as the BayStars defeated the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2-1 to wrap up interleague play on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 8, 2014
Yokohama's Gurriel breaks loose in Japan debut
Cuba's Yulieski Gurriel went 3-for-4 with two runs scored in his Japan debut as the Yokohama BayStars rallied to beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 5-1 on Sunday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 7, 2014
BayStars pitcher Ino producing better results
It took Yokohama BayStars pitcher Shoichi Ino five starts before he won his first game in 2013. The rookie then bounced in and out of the rotation, and it wasn't until September that the right-hander took a game into at least the seventh inning for the first time. He posted only five wins and had to...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2014
Gourriel to make debut with BayStars Friday
Newly acquired Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel will make his debut with the Yokohama BayStars this week, manager Kiyoshi Nakahata revealed on Monday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 31, 2014
Wild pitch, pinch-hit homer vital pieces of victory for BayStars
The Yokohama BayStars scored the tie-breaking run on lefty reliever Takahiro Matsunaga's wild pitch in the eighth inning and staved off the Chiba Lotte Marines in a 4-1 win on Saturday afternoon.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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