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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Takuya Kai of the Yomiuri Giants hits a two-run home run against the Yakult ... moves of Nippon Professional Baseball's offseason. The Giants had already carved out a 10-0 lead at Tokyo Dome ...

He bowed out of a Tokyo Yakult Swallows training camp in Okinawa Prefecture just ahead of the 2026 World Baseball Classic ... lost all three of its games to Japan, Cuba and China—something ...

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 ...

(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 ...

According to the Tokyo metropolitan government, the accident occurred at Jingu Baseball Stadium, before a game between the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and ... on Aug. 15. - The Japan News/ANN ...

The undisputed giants of the NPB (no pun intended…) Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo the Giants have won a record 22 Japan Series and have 39 Central League pennants to their name. This success and their public ...