Nippon-Ham Fighters OF Franmil Reyes hit his 16th HR of the season today vs the Marines, which was also his career 50th HR at Es Con Field Hokkaido. He now also has a 15 game hitting streak going news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ff4... #npb
NPB starting pitchers announced for Jun 23 #npb
(all dates and times listed are Japan Standard Time)
Softbank Hawks P Darwinzon Hernández gave an update on his condition, "Two weeks passed and my elbow is feeling much better. I'll get a check up and if there are no problems I'm thinking of going into the bullpen to gradually get back into games"
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e52... #npb
Yuto Sakurai reflects on his career as an interpreter for Japanese MLB players www.purplerow.com/colorado-roc... #mlb
[Jun 22] Rakuten Eagles vs Seibu Lions game highlights from Tokyo Dome www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgYN... #npb
The Rakuten Eagles played a home game at Tokyo Dome today, their once in a year game to give the Eagles fans in Tokyo that can't make the trip to Sendai a chance to cheer at a Rakuten home game. The Rakuten president also came out
news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2f0... #npb
Hiroshima Carp IF Konosuke Tatsumi was diagnosed with a medial collateral ligament injury in his left knee, and is expected to be removed from the active roster. He injured it as a pinch runner in 6/20 game vs Yakult while sliding attempting to steal second news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/cc6... #npb
The Nippon-Ham Fighters will hold a "Fighters Legends Game" on Nov 22 at Es Con Field Hokkaido, where former managers Trey Hillman and Hideki Kuriyama will head teams of former Fighters players from the 2006 and 2016 teams news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/9d5... #npb
Seibu Lions hitter Shinya Hasegawa needs 1 HR to become just the 5th player in NPB history to be drafted as a development player, and hit double digit HR's in a single season. He'd join Takuya Kai, Seiya Matsubara, Richard Sunagawa and Daito Yamamoto news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d72... #npb
Nippon-Ham Fighters pitcher Takumi Yamamoto underwent cleaning surgery on his right elbow joint. He's expected to be out of action for about three months news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7b6... #npb
