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Rookie Ryuki Watarai capped his three-hit night with a grand slam in the eighth inning as the DeNA BayStars rallied to beat the Yomiuri Giants 7-2 Friday in the Central League. Watarai's blast to right field capped a six-run eighth at Yokohama Stadium after back-to-back RBI doubles by Keita Sano and Shugo Maki turned the game around for the BayStars. The 21-year-old rookie was down to eighth in the batting order for the first time after starting the season in the leadoff spot. Yomiuri's Shosei Togo and DeNA's Katsuki Azuma each threw seven solid innings, allowing one run and two runs, respecti...
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Japan striker Ayase Ueda scored his third goal of the season as Feyenoord kept their title hopes alive with a 3-1 win against Go Ahead Eagles in the Dutch top flight on Thursday. The away victory ensures the Rotterdam club, currently trailing leaders PSV by nine points, will finish no worse than second in the Eredivisie and qualify for next season's Champions League. Ueda, who has mostly played off the bench for Feyenoord, was given the start at center forward by manager Arne Slot. With his team leading 2-1 in the 69th minute, the Samurai Blue attacker controlled a well-placed ball from winger...
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw six shutout innings for his second Major League Baseball win Thursday as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 and completed a three-game series sweep. The Japanese right-hander struck out seven while allowing four hits and one walk in the most assured performance of his six-game MLB career. Teoscar Hernandez broke the ice for the Dodgers with a solo homer in the top of the second and Freddie Freeman made it 2-0 with an RBI double in the eighth at Nationals Park. Yamamoto (2-1) set the tone with a 1-2-3 first inning and had his four-seamer, curvebal...
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Japan took a big step toward the Paris Olympic men's football tournament with a 4-2 extra-time victory over 10-man Qatar in the quarterfinals of the U-23 Asian Cup on Thursday. Mao Hosoya and Kotaro Uchino scored in extra time following a 2-2 deadlock through 90 minutes at Doha's Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, where the hosts went down a man after goalkeeper Yousef Abdullah's 41st-minute red card. With the top three teams in Qatar qualifying for the Paris Games, manager Go Oiwa's squad need one more win to earn Japan's eighth consecutive Olympic berth. Despite playing most of the match with a man a...
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Right-hander Bo Takahashi, who as a child in Brazil idolized former Seibu Lions ace Daisuke Matsuzaka, earned his first win for the Pacific League club Thursday going 5-2/3 innings in a 3-1 victory over the Orix Buffaloes. Takahashi, who pitched as high as Triple-A for the Cincinnati Reds and in South Korea, joined the Lions in 2022. Making his second start of the season, Takahashi allowed a run on three hits, a walk and a hit batsman at Kyocera Dome Osaka. "I'm really happy to get my first win," he said in Portuguese through an interpreter. "Now I want to go beyond this and win many more with...
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J-League champions Vissel Kobe will play Tottenham Hotspur in a July 27 international club friendly at Tokyo's National Stadium, the league announced Thursday. Kobe, who won their first top-division title last year, will take on the English Premier League side managed by Australian Ange Postecoglou, who previously was in charge of J-League side Yokohama F Marinos. The J-League said more matchups in its "World Challenge" series involving overseas clubs are to be announced in due course.
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Shohei Ohtani felt he had done something special the moment a mammoth 450-foot home run cracked off his bat in the Los Angeles Dodgers' series-opening win against the Washington Nationals, the Japanese superstar said Wednesday. The towering solo blast in the ninth inning of Tuesday's 4-1 victory was the hardest-hit home run of his Major League Baseball career, soaring to the second deck at Nationals Park with an exit velocity of 118.7 miles per hour, according to MLB.com. "It felt like one of the best of my life," Ohtani said during a media scrum ahead of Wednesday's meeting with the Nationals...
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Shohei Ohtani improved his batting average to a Major League Baseball-leading .371 with a 3-for-6 outing Wednesday as the Los Angeles Dodgers pummeled the Washington Nationals 11-2. The reigning American League MVP continued his hot hitting after homering in the two previous games, including a 450-foot blast that reached the second deck in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Nationals. Ohtani drove in two runs and scored two, with all three hits doubles, taking his tally to an MLB-best 14 for the season. No other player had reached double figures as of Wednesday. Mookie Betts and Will Smith both went 4...
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Yokohama F Marinos reached their first Asian Champions League final after seeing off South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai 5-4 on penalties Wednesday following a dramatic 3-3 aggregate draw. Trailing 1-0 from a week ago, Marinos went down to 10 men in the semifinal's second leg but still won 3-2 as the J-League side persevered through the tough 120-minute contest in heavy rain at International Stadium Yokohama -- during which Ulsan had 40 shots. "A huge step forward not only for the players but for the club itself to show that anything is possible," manager Harry Kewell said. "I'm over the moon for the ...
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Sheldon Neuse twice drew bases-loaded walks that put the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers in front in their wild wet 5-3 win over the DeNA BayStars on Wednesday. With Tigers lefty Masashi Ito building a no-hit bid, the game at Yokohama Stadium was halted by rain after five innings with Hanshin leading 1-0. Instead of focusing on the lead, Tigers manager Akinobu Okada left Ito in the game and it backfired. After a roughly 30-minute layoff, the lefty got through the sixth but coughed up three runs, two earned, on four seventh-inning hits. Neuse, who singled his first two times up, forced in...
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