Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. The Japanese triple crown winner delivered a walk-off double in a 6-5 thriller against Mexico on March 20 ...
Continue reading for highlights from Tuesday’s final. 11:19 PM: With epic ending, Shohei Ohtani’s Japan reclaims World Baseball Classic crown MIAMI — Shohei Ohtani did not jog in from the ...
Cheers erupted across Japan as the Samurai Japan’s victory over Team USA in the World Baseball Classic final in Miami sent fans in homes, ballparks and public viewing locales into ecstasy. The ...
Shohei Ohtani rarely shows emotion on the baseball field. But when he roped a double to the right center field gap in the bottom of the ninth on Monday night, Ohtani swung his arms up, yelling at ...
The fifth installment of the World Baseball Classic is in the books and Japan, led by the singular Shohei Ohtani, is this year's champion. Japan defeated USA in Tuesday night's championship game ...
Ahead of what has been called the biggest event in the history of Japanese boxing, International Boxing Hall of Fame ...
Shohei Ohtani told Japanese reporters Sunday that he would be available only to pitch out of the bullpen in the World Baseball Classic final Tuesday should Japan beat Mexico in the semifinals.
Japan's undisputed super-bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue said an early scare got him "fired up" after he stopped ...
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t expecting that. The pitch of the cheers was different, the weigh-ins, the pageantry, the respect, the routines, it was all different.
Jason Moloney's desperate attempts for a final-second knockout fall short, the Australian losing his WBO bantamweight world boxing title to Japanese upstart Yoshiki Takei in Tokyo.
With all four major belts in the hands of Japanese fighters, Ryosuke Nishida looks headed to four-man tourney to crown the unified king ...