TOKYO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it's Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball ...

Shohei Ohtani played an extra month of baseball in both 2024 and 2025 as his Los Angeles Dodgers made back-to-back championship runs, but he is all in for some more action in March. Ohtani committed ...

Baseball is now well behind football, which more than 40% of Americans said was their favorite sport to watch in 2023. Baseball is Japan’s pastime in a way it isn’t for America anymore. The key will ...

Brass bands, concessionaires toting kegs as backpacks and a lot of choreographed cheering: Such is baseball in Japan. No other sport in the country draws more people, and yet, almost 90 years after ...

TOKYO — During the early innings of a nighttime exhibition between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yomiuri Giants, Nori Kawana walked through the concourse of the Tokyo Dome in disbelief. As the head of ...

Team Japan is the reigning champion of the World Baseball Classic. They won the 2023 tournament, beating the United States 3-2 in the final. The ending to the game is one of the most memorable moments ...

When Hideo Nomo joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 as the first MLB player from Japan in three decades, his Rookie of the Year-winning campaign inspired "Nomo-mania" in Southern California. Ever ...

A total of seven games across the baseball and softball competitions – including the very first event of the Tokyo Olympics, ...

A Japanese professional baseball umpire who was struck on the head by a bat during a game two weeks ago is still unconscious, local media said. Takuto Kawakami was behind home plate during a game in ...

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...