and Gakuto Wakabayashi hit a sayonara single in the 10th to lift the Kyojin to a 6-5 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the season opener at Tokyo Dome on Friday night. In a time of both ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tetsuto Yamada hit his 300th career home run and Peter Lambert threw six scoreless innings in his Japanese baseball debut as the Yakult Swallows beat the Chunichi Dragons ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has ... was born in Japan, is of unknown age, and ...

TOKYO -- Japan's professional baseball team the Tokyo Yakult Swallows announced Feb. 19 that the person who performs as the club's popular mascot Tsubakuro had passed away. The team issued a ...

Next spring, after graduating from Kyoto University, Mizuno will work as an analyst for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball. He will collect and apply data gathered on ...

On his 27th birthday, Brewers right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez made his return to the major-league mound for the first time since 2023 — a season in which he logged only one appearance.

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nippon Ham Fighters ... Five days before Nippon Professional Baseball's season begins, the Fighters rallied to beat the Yakult Swallows 7-4 at Es Con Field Hokkaido ...

Jingu’s home club, the Yakult Swallows, held a spring exhibition ... interested in seeing the country’s top league, Nippon Professional Baseball. Plenty of Japanese fans have been drawn ...

After spending seven years in Korea and Japan, pitcher David Buchanan ... During his three years with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2017 to 2019, Buchanan recorded 71 games (433⅔ innings ...

TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki was having his typical day on a baseball field in 2000 ... playing the final year of his career in Japan with the Yakult Swallows — couldn't believe his eyes.