Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as ...

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 ...

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.