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 ...

Keiji Takahashi of the Yakult Swallows pitches against the Hanshin Tigers at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on April 8, 2025. (Kyodo) NISHINOMIYA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Keiji Takahashi ...

(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 ...

On his 27th birthday, Brewers right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez made his return to the major-league mound for the first ...

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.

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Mariners, the impact of Japanese players is as prevalent as ever going into this week’s games in Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) — 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.