Major League Baseball today announced that it will bring MLBx, its innovative, fast-paced 3-on-3 baseball competition, to Japan for the first time on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at Mizuho PayPay Dome ...

About a decade ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers brought Kenta Maeda to Major League Baseball from Japan. Now these 10 years later, Maeda is back pitching in Nippon Professional Baseball, and on Thursday ...

Ward signed a contract with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball on Tuesday, Maddie Lee of the Los Angeles Times reports.

Ryan Ward’s crowded path to playing time with the Los Angeles Dodgers has led him to a new opportunity in Japan.

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 softball opener on July 22 – will take place at Fukushima Azuma Baseball ...

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 ...

Another Japanese standout could be on his way to the majors after all. Right-handed pitcher Takahiro Norimoto, a prolific strikeout artist during his 13 seasons with Nippon Professional Baseball’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's hits record, has died. He was 86. The Golden Players Club, an organization for elite ...

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 Classic. When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout ...