Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

They were there to watch Sasaki take the ball in Tokyo, a six-hour drive south, to pitch for Samurai Japan in a World Baseball Classic game against the Czech Republic. “Watching him pitch ...

Satozaki Tomoya, who played as catcher for Lotte and for the Samurai Japan national team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2008 Olympics, had this to say on his popular YouTube channel ...

The trio were teammates on the Samurai Japan team that won the gold medal in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Sasaki made global headlines for his pitches exceeding 102 mph on the radar gun before ...

They defeated Samurai Japan, 4-0. Now, the team will look to keep the good times going as they host the upcoming World Baseball Classic Qualifiers starting on Feb. 25.

Two years ago during the World Baseball Classic, he formed a three-ace rotation for Samurai Japan with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Now all three of them could pitch together in Los Angeles.

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...