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 ...

Manager Hirokazu Ibata is expecting Japan's Major League Baseball contingent to form his team's backbone when Samurai Japan goes in pursuit of its fourth World Baseball Classic championship in March ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Like Ohtani and Yamamoto, Darvish was also a teammate of Sasaki’s for Samurai Japan during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Wolfe himself has repeatedly pushed back on the idea that Sasaki has ...