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... Collins and Magrane weren't done. Collins introduced a Japanese batter as playing for the Nippon Ham Fighters. That put him back in professorial mode. "In case you're wondering about the Nippon Ham Fighters," he said, and at this point, I decided to write this item, because I knew the next thing out of his mouth was going to be goofy, "kind of an interesting name. It's actually Nippon...
Oh god, I don't even know where to start when talking about this game. The first-place Seibu Lions, who have hit 141 home runs this year compared to the 53 hit by the second-place Nippon Ham Fighters, added four more tonight to their total as the Lions devoured Kazuhito Tadano and the Fighters by a score of 11-2 . Well, I know one place I could start: I have to thank a super-kind person...
SENDAI (Kyodo) Yoshio Itoi homered and Brian Sweeney pitched six effective innings Tuesday as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 7-2 to stay in second place in the Pacific League. Itoi opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the second before Eiichi Koyano and Shinji Takahashi hit back-to-back RBI hits in the third to increase the lead to 5-0 at Kleenex...
(Kyodo) _ Takumi Kuriyama doubled in the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning as the Seibu Lions edged the Nippon Ham Fighters 3-2 in the Pacific League on Sunday. Kuriyama’s……Read more
Yu Darvish struck out 10 in his eighth complete game of the season and Kensuke Tanaka drove in two runs, leading the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to a 3-1 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Thursday. Darvish (11-3) won his fifth straight start after holding Rakuten to four hits without a walk in an 89-pitch outing at Tokyo Dome. The right-hander retired the final 11 batters in order,...
(Kyodo) _ Atsunori Inaba and Terrmel Sledge each homered and drove in all nine runs as the Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Softbank Hawks 9-6 on Saturday. Inaba opened the scoring with a……Read more
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles have acquired former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters designated hitter Fernando Seguignol and minor league right-hander Marcus Gwyn, the team said Tuesday. Seguignol, who shared the 2004 Pacific League home run title with Nobuhiko Matsunaka of the then-Daiei Hawks after hitting 44 homers, is a career .274 hitter with 145 homers and 386 RBIs over five seasons in...
SAPPORO (Kyodo) Tasuku Hashimoto hit a grand slam and Yuta Omine pitched six strong innings as the ChibaLotte Marines beat Yu Darvish and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 5-2 on Thursday. The Marines opened the scoring in the fourth inning when Hashimoto drove a low inside fastball from Darvish (11-4) over the right-field wall with two outs and the bases loaded at Sapporo Dome. Read the full...
SAPPORO (Kyodo) Hiroyuki Nakajima went 3-for-5 with a pair of solo homers and Takumi Kuriyama hit a two-run home run Wednesday as the Seibu Lions beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 8-6 for their third straight victory. Nakajima homered in the first and sixth innings, while Kuriyama's two-run drive off Ryan Glynn (3-11) capped a four-run second that gave Seibu the lead for good at 5-1 at Sapporo...
Going into the final day of interleague play, there was a four-way tie for first place among two PL teams and two CL teams. My team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, was tied with the Nippon Ham Fighters and the mighty Tigers and Giants.Like so many other things here in Japan, the tiebreaker rules are quirky. Rather than head-to-head results or runs allowed, ties are decided by the previous year’s...
Going into the final day of interleague play, there was a four-way tie for first place among two PL teams and two CL teams. My team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, was tied with the Nippon Ham Fighters and the mighty Tigers and Giants.Like so many other things here in Japan, the tiebreaker rules are quirky. Rather than head-to-head results or runs allowed, ties are decided by the previous year’s...
Pickering: Off the paceAlso see Matthew Marsh claimed the British super-bantamweight title in only his 11th fight as a professional with a points victory over Esham Pickering. The West Ham fighter was successful in the amateur ranks and his work-rate proved too much for the former European and Commonwealth champion, whose powers appear to be on the wane. Marsh came out firing from the opening...
