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Swallows claim fifth Japan Series
By David Picker, Japan Times -- The Yakult Swallows flew off with their fifth championship on Thursday.
Atsunori Inaba and Akinori Iwamura each had a pair of RBIs as the Swallows beat the Kintetsu Buffaloes 4-2 in Game 5 of the Japan Series at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium.
Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta, who played the Japan Series on an injured knee, was named series MVP after batting .500 with three RBIs, five runs scored, seven hits and one homer.
October 25: Full Story
Swallows a win away from title
By David Picker, Japan Times -- The big guns drew blanks for the Yakult Swallows on Wednesday, but a role player picked up the slack.
Pinch-hitter Kota Soejima smacked a solo homer in the seventh inning to give the Swallows a 2-1 victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Game 4 of the Japan Series at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium.
October 24: Full Story
Swallows swamp Buffaloes in Game 3
By Jack Gallagher, Japan Times -- Roberto Petagine drove in three runs with a pair of hits, Mitsuru Manaka cracked a two-run homer and Atsuya Furuta had two hits and two RBIs as the Swallows took a 2-1 lead in the series with a 9-2 win on Tuesday night at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium.
October 23: Full Story
Teams regroup as series shifts to Jingu
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- October 22: Full Story
Will Buffaloes finally get monkey off their backs?
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- October 23: Full Story
Buffaloes Tuff it out
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- Tuffy Rhodes blasted a dramatic tie-breaking three-run homer in the eighth inning to lift the Buffaloes to a 9-6 victory over the Yakult Swallows and tie the Japan Series at one game apiece.
October 21: Full Story
Matsuzaka rides fastball to Sawamura Award
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- October 22: Full Story
Ishii fans 12 as Swallows rip Buffaloes
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- Yakult left-hander Kazuhisa Ishii, flirting with a no-hitter, held Kintetsu to one hit over eight innings and the Swallows took the opening game with a 7-0 victory Saturday night at Osaka Dome.
October 20: Full Story
Buffs' Nakamura swings for the fences each and every time
By Kaz Nagatsuka, Asahi Shimbun -- October 20: Full Story
Buffaloes face uphill battle against Swallows
By Dan Latham, Asahi Shimbun -- October 19: Full Story
Kintetsu pair pitches Giant hopes for series
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- October 19: Full Story
Power, stadiums, and some surprises
JapaneseBaseball.com -- October 19: Full Story
Buffaloes make themselves heard
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- October 18: Full Story
Timing key to Inaba's story
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- October 18: Full Story
The Buffalo that didn't roam
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- For five often grueling years, Rhodes endured as he and his teammates on the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes muddled through lousy season after disappointing season, finishing above .500 only once and placing dead last the past two campaigns.
October 18: Full Story
Swallows capture 6th CL pennant the hard way
By Dan Latham, Asahi Shimbun -- October 8: Full Story
Oh's treatment of Rhodes shameful
By Jack Gallagher, Japan Times -- October 10: Full Story
Nagashima retires at end of season
Japan Times -- September 28: Full Story
Buffaloes clinch pennant in grand style
By David Picker, Japan Times -- September 26: Full Story
Rhodes rips 55th homer to tie Oh's record
Japan Times -- September 24: Full Story
Third time a charm for Carp's Diaz
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- September 25: Full Story
Japanese baseball's search for line drives: Thoughts from former foreign players
By Brett Bull, Sake Drenched Postcards -- September 18: Full Story
Spencer on baseball: A 1972 interview with Hankyu Braves player-coach
By Stu Kobak,
Films on Disc -- July 11: Full Story
Tuffy enjoying a hair-raising season
By Rob Smaal, Japan Times -- June 27: Full Story
Buffaloes' GM suspended by PL in sign-stealing case
Japan Times -- June 21: Full Story
Dragons' Gomez back where he belongs
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- June 20: Full Story
Power surge in the Pacific League
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- June 6: Full Story
Japanese ballplayers starting to have presence in the U.S.
By Joe Posnanski, Kansas City Star -- May 26: Full Story
Oh my! Home run record in danger
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- At the speed Alex Cabrera is hitting home runs, 21 in 41 games, he will tie Sadaharu Oh's Japan record in his 107th game of the year. And Oh likes Cabrera's chances of setting a new record.
May 16: Full Story
Ichiro makes a game an event
By Art Thiel, Seattle P-I -- Not in Seattle's 25 years in the major leagues has there been a hitter who can get mothers to pause while fixing dinner, fathers to halt channel surfing and ballpark patrons to scurry back from beer lines, just to witness an infield grounder.
May 16: Full Story
Nomo still getting job done his own way
By Jack Gallagher, Japan Times -- May 9: Full Story
Daiei's pitching shuttle service
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- May 8: Full Story
A-Cab gettin' it done for Seibu
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- April 24: Full Story
Ichiro sparkles with bat, arm
John Hickey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- April 12: Full Story
Nomo pitches no-no for Red Sox
AP -- April 4: Full Story
Rising Sun: Once a U.S. enemy, Japan now shares one of America's deepest passions
By Jim Caple, Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- Those 108 red stitches are capable of holding together so much more than a cork center, a few yards of twine and a leather cover -- sometimes they connect two entire cultures oceans apart.
March 30: Full Story
Rainy days and Mondays won't dampen baseball
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- "Rainy Days and Mondays (Always Get Me Down)," Karen and Richard Carpenter's hit record out of the 1970s, might have been an anthem for baseball fans in Japan several years ago.
Feb. 18: Full Story
No big-name foreign players in 2001
By Wayne Graczyk, Japan Times -- However, lack of recognition does not necessarily mean they will not succeed in Japan.
Feb. 4: Full Story
Past headlines
Pacific League seeks attention with early start
The Ichiro effect: What will star's departure mean for Japan baseball?
Opensen roundup: Matsuzaka's 110 pitches not funny
Why the Japanese take exhibition games so seriously?
"Little" Matsui sets sights on quadruple crown
Fighters' Obando elbows his way to success
Nigel Wilson has no 'knee' to worry
Corey Paul: King of the Eastern League
Carp's Lopez loses baseball wanderlust
Little things mean a lot to PL players
Brrr, it's JPB spring training time!
Sosa's talk of playing in Japan a laugher
Grand slam kingpin Komada retires
Minchey rests wing, reaps rewards
CL pitchers happy to see last of Gomez
Lions: Brand new millennium, same old hope
Ex-Giant Cromartie's heart still in baseball
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