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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2016
BayStars' Tsutsugo delivers game-ending homer in 12th to conquer Giants
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo might not have gotten a chance to win the game in the 10th, but he wasn't going to be denied in the 12th.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 13, 2016
Carp's Kuroda falls short again in quest for 200th victory
Hiroki Kuroda was forced to wait again for his 200th career win after allowing six runs in 6⅔ innings to the Yomiuri Giants on Wednesday, taking the loss in the Hiroshima Carp's 6-0 defeat in the Central League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 8, 2016
Ota triple lifts Giants to victory over BayStars
Taishi Ota tripled in two runs in the seventh inning to break a tie as the Yomiuri Giants snapped the Yokohama BayStars' three-game winning streak with a 3-1 victory on Friday in the Central League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 7, 2016
Tigers rookie Aoyagi sparkles in seven scoreless innings against Giants
Koyo Aoyagi threw everything he had at the Yomiuri Giants in his first start at Tokyo Dome. The Giants, for the most part, couldn't really handle any of it.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 5, 2016
Stars step up to steer Giants past archrival Tigers
A red-hot Randy Messenger was dealing, and it didn't look as if the Yomiuri Giants were going to have many chances to cool him off.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 30, 2016
Dragons capitalize on pair of wild pitches in ninth to beat Giants
Shunta Wakamatsu kept the Chunichi Dragons in the game long enough for his teammates to grab the lead in the ninth inning. Then, he went out and finished what he started.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 28, 2016
Dragons' Ono fires three-hit shutout
Yudai Ono looked like he'd barely broken a sweat as he walked out of Tokyo Dome. The ease with which he went up and down the Yomiuri Giants' lineup hadn't given him much of a chance to work up one.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jun 27, 2016
Cromartie praises Ichiro, hopes own legacy gets due credit
One of the joys for Yomiuri Giants fans who packed the stands at Korakuen Stadium during the final years of the ballpark, before the team moved into the shiny new dome being built next door, was to see Warren Cromartie hit a home run then trot out to his spot in the outfield between innings and lead...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 25, 2016
Clutch bats carry BayStars past Giants
Elian Herrera tied it with an eighth-inning double and Masayuki Kuwahara played the hero for the second straight day to lift the Yokohama BayStars to a 7-6 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 16, 2016
Sakamoto lifts Giants to victory over Eagles
Hayato Sakamoto brought the Yomiuri Giants from behind for the third time on Thursday night with a two-run, eighth-inning homer in a 10-7 interleague win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 15, 2016
Giants snap five-game skid
Shuichi Murata hit a two-out, walk-off single in the ninth inning as the Yomiuri Giants snapped their five-game skid with a 3-2 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Wednesday in interleague action.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 15, 2016
Giants' Cruz flies to U.S. for examination
Yomiuri Giants second baseman Luis Cruz has traveled to the United States to go through a checkup, believed to be on his left ankle, the Central League club announced Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 12, 2016
Hawks complete sweep of Giants
Ryoma Kidokoro continued his remarkable career turnaround on Sunday, when the light-hitting reserve outfielder belted a pair of two-run homers to help power the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 7-5 interleague win and a series sweep of the Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 5, 2016
Fighters ace Otani sets new NPB speed record
Slugging ace Shohei Otani hit a record 163 kph on his fastball, extended his hitting streak to 15 games and went the distance for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in a 6-2 interleague win over the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 31, 2016
Dramatic return: Giants' Abe slugs winning homer against Buffaloes in season debut
Shinnosuke Abe made his belated season debut in style, hitting a go-ahead two-run home run in the Yomiuri Giants' 3-2 win against the Orix Buffaloes as interleague action got underway Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 30, 2016
Yomiuri Land fun park adds factory-themed attraction to make more sales
In Japan's aging society, amusement parks are struggling to stay in business.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 27, 2016
Tigers southpaw Iwasada outduels Giants' Sugano, tosses first career shutout
Yuta Iwasada held Yomiuri to three hits for his first career shutout, and Tomoyuki Sugano suffered his first loss as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 1-0 in the Central League on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 20, 2016
Wild pitch sends Giants past Dragons in 11th inning
An 11th-inning wild pitch by Chunichi closer Koji Fukutani broke up a scoreless pitchers' duel as the Central-League leading Yomiuri Giants defeated the Dragons 2-0 on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 18, 2016
Ishida extends streak as BayStars beat Giants
Second-year right-hander Kenta Ishida stretched his scoreless innings streak to 20 by going the first seven innings for the Yokohama BayStars in a 1-0 win over the Yomiuri Giants in the Central League on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
May 16, 2016
Blocking rule causing confusion at home plate
One of Japanese baseball's new rules at home plate, or rather the determination to start enforcing one that was technically already in effect, has been the source of some consternation on NPB diamonds.

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