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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 18, 2015
Giants' Mikolas tosses one-hitter against archrival Tigers
Losing a shot at a perfect game because of an error in the sixth inning didn't faze Miles Mikolas one bit.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 13, 2015
BayStars' Tsutsugo slugs game-winning blast in ninth
A game might look over, and it might feel over, but as Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yokohama BayStars taught the Yomiuri Giants' Tomoyuki Sugano, nothing is over until the final out is in the books.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 11, 2015
Giants hurler Mikolas tosses complete game, improves to 9-3
Miles Mikolas is on a roll and he's not ready for it to stop anytime soon.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2015
Late comeback sends Carp to series sweep over Giants
Seiya Suzuki hit a game-tying home run and the Hiroshima Carp capitalized on an eighth-inning error in a 6-1 series-sweeping win over the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday afternoon.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 8, 2015
Matsuyama ignites offense as Carp edge Giants
Ryuhei Matsuyama opened the scoring and hit a decisive solo home run as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 2-1 on Saturday.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 8, 2015
Truth hurts: censorship in the media
"Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war." — Philip Snowden, July 1916
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2015
Carp's Kikuchi delivers winning hit in 12th against Giants
The Hiroshima Carp and Yomiuri Giants had combined for a host of missed opportunities and enough strikeouts to last a month, but no runs over the first 3 hours and 55 minutes on Friday night.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 6, 2015
Dening delivers winning blast for Swallows
Mitch Dening's two-run home run put the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in front for good on Thursday in a 5-3 win over the Yomiuri Giants that prevented the hosts from being swept.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 4, 2015
Giants climb into first place with triumph over CL rival Swallows
Miles Mikolas held Yakult to a run in six innings to help the Yomiuri Giants beat the Swallows 5-3 on Tuesday and leapfrog them into first place in the Central League.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 2, 2015
Wakamatsu shuts out Giants, halts Dragons' slide
Rookie Shunta Wakamatsu snapped the Chunichi Dragons' eight-game losing skid with an impressive first career shutout on Sunday as they beat the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 5-0.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2015
Tigers beat rival Giants
Hanshin Tigers starter Atsushi Nomi threw one-run ball over six innings and was gifted three first-inning runs in a 4-2 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Wednesday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 15, 2015
Two-time Sawamura Award winner Takahashi dies at 69
Kazumi Takahashi, a left-hander who won two Sawamura Awards for the Yomiuri Giants during their run of nine straight Japan Series championship seasons, has died of multiple organ failure, informed sources said Wednesday. He was 69.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 14, 2015
BayStars storm past Giants with seven-run fifth
The Yokohama BayStars turned the game around on its head with seven runs in the fifth inning as they beat the Yomiuri Giants 10-3 on Tuesday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 11, 2015
Giants pounce on Fujinami en route to fifth consecutive triumph
Shintaro Fujinami, aiming to win his fifth straight start, imploded on Saturday, surrendering seven runs in 5-2/3 innings in the Hanshin Tigers' 11-2 whipping at the hands of the Yomiuri Giants.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 8, 2015
Sugiuchi ends drought as Giants beat Swallows
Toshiya Sugiuchi allowed two runs in 7⅓ innings to help the Yomiuri Giants move a game clear at the top of the Central League standings as they beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7-4 on Wednesday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 7, 2015
Chono changes Giants' fortunes with clutch triple in triumph over Swallows
Tuesday night was "Hisayoshi Chono Player's Day" at Tokyo Dome, and it was only fitting the man of the hour stole the show.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jul 5, 2015
Media redraw battle lines in bid for global reach
Something significant happened in April that attracted only desultory press coverage, so let's give it some more.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 2, 2015
Carp hurler Fukui effective in triumph over Giants
Yuya Fukui, who turned down the Yomiuri Giants when they drafted him out of high school, spurned the Central League champs again on Thursday, going eight impressive innings for the Hiroshima Carp in a 3-2 victory.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 2, 2015
Giants pinch runner Suzuki named to CL All-Star squad
In a series that is ostensibly about the best and most popular players in Nippon Professional Baseball, Central League manager Tatsunori Hara pulled an unusual move on Thursday, naming pinch runner Takahiro Suzuki to his squad.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 30, 2015
Giants stage dramatic rally against Kuroda in ninth inning
It took nearly the entire game, but the Yomiuri Giants finally found the solution to their Hiroki Kuroda problem.

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