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Staff writer Lastings Milledge ended his home-run trot with a salsa dance in front of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows dugout. When you hit a ball as far as he did, you can do whatever you want. Milledge crushed a two-run homer deep to left in the third
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A friend recently brought up the subject of the appeal of Japanese baseball. "What is it you like about it?" he asked, implying there was a lot not to like about the game and the way it is played in Japan. "In fact," he said, "Tell me five good
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Yoshihisa Naruse was determined not to give up the ball this time around. After being chased from the mound in the ninth inning of his previous start, the Chiba Lotte lefty went the distance in the Marines' 9-0 victory over the Chunichi Dragons in
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Yoshihisa Naruse put the brakes on the speeding Yomiuri Giants on Saturday. The Giants, who had 10 wins and three ties since May 5, were held to five hits in a 5-2 loss at QVC Marine Field. Naruse (5-2) struck out seven in 8 innings and came within
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Yudai Kawai three-hit the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles over eight shutout innings as the Chunichi Dragons won 3-0 in interleague action Thursday. Kawai (2-1) allowed the Eagles just a single and a pair of infield hits during a 111-pitch outing before
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The interleague-leading Yomiuri Giants improved to 6-0 against the Pacific League this season, when former PL strikeout king Toshiya Sugiuchi pitched eight-plus innings in a 2-0 victory over the Seibu Lions at Seibu Dome on Wednesday...Sugiuchi, who
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Tohoku Rakuten's Senichi Hoshino won his 1,000th career game as manager as the Eagles edged the Orix Buffaloes 3-2 for their third straight win Friday. Hoshino, 65, is the 12th manager to accomplish the feat in Japanese baseball history and the first
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Masahiro Yamamoto became the oldest starter ever to win in Japanese baseball at 46 years, eight months and four days after the Chunichi Dragons lefty threw eight shutout innings in a 3-0 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Sunday. Yamamoto threw 103
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They got exactly what they wanted with a two-run homer by Shuichi Murata in the eighth inning to break open a close game in a 5-1 victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Wednesday night. Yomiuri starter Dicky Gonzalez pitched six effective innings in
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Staff writer Ryosuke Hirata represented the Chunichi Dragons' last line of defense as he scooped up Shunichi Murata's two-out ninth-inning single in right field, as Takahiro Suzuki rounded third with his sights set on scoring the winning run for the
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