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YOMIURI GIANTS

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 21, 2019
Giants capture first Central League pennant since 2014
Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara wrapped an arm about Shinnosuke Abe, one of his longest-serving veterans, as they walked toward the left-field stands at Yokohama Stadium, where their fans were waiting to greet them with rapturous applause.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2019
Dragons complete three-city series sweep of Giants
The Chunichi Dragons beat the Yomiuri Giants here, they beat them there and, for this series at least, they beat them everywhere.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2019
Giants' Hayato Sakamoto sets personal record with 32nd homer in triumph over Tigers
Just like the weather outside of the relatively comfortable and cool confines of Tokyo Dome, the Yomiuri Giants are starting to heat up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2019
Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei delivers sayonara sacrifice fly in 10th to down Swallows
The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2019
Warren Cromartie still eager to pitch in to help Giants, Expos
Warren Cromartie says he's always been a team player.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Aug 5, 2019
Central League set up for exciting race to finish line
Things looked so simple in the Central League at the All-Star break.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 2, 2019
Tatsunori Hara has shot at top 10 for most wins by a manager
Tatsunori Hara moved into rarefied air when his Yomiuri Giants beat the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday night, becoming the 13th NPB manager to reach 1,000 career victories.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 1, 2019
Carp continue post-All-Star surge with one-sided victory over Giants
The Hiroshima Carp look like a team that's not quite ready to give up the Central League pennant they've held onto for the past three seasons — at least not without a fight.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 26, 2019
Tigers' Yangervis Solarte enjoys memorable NPB debut, slugging game-winning homer against Giants
Yangervis Solarte hasn't even been in Japan that long and yet Hanshin Tigers fans already love him.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jul 8, 2019
Giants beginning to hit stride ahead of All-Star break
Following a spring training game against the Seattle Mariners in March, Yomiuri Giants manager Tastunori Hara mused that the MLB club's lineup looked similar to his own.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan