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Rookie baseball player of Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, Louis Okoye show his talent now. Okoye was nominated to 1st place from Eagles in last year’s draft, and was in the first team at the spring training 2016. In Exhibition game, His stats was 23 at-bats and 4 hits. But he took 4 RBI and showed a …

Yokohama Dena Baystars has announced that if player hit a big home run at Yokohama Stadium, Team will be reduced the 100 million yen（≒1 million dollars）to the fan. In June 3 2015, there was the game of Baystars vs Fukuoka Softbank Hawks at Yokohama stadium. Yuki Yanagita of Hawks got a home run that hit the …

The game of Yomiuri Giants vs Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters has been made at Tokyo Dome, June 5. Starting pitcher was Hayato Takagi of Giants and Shohei Otani of Fighters. In 1st inning, Taishi Ota of first batter hitted the home run from Otani, Giants took the lead in the score of 1-0. However, in 3rd inning  Kensuke Tanaka …

The game of Yomiuri Giants vs Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters has been made at Tokyo Dome, June 4. Starting pitcher was Nobutaka Imamura of Giants and Luis Mendoza of Fighters. In 1st inning, Fighters took 3 point by the hits of Daikan YOH and kensuke tanaka. but Giants also took 1-point by infield grounder at same inning. After that, Luis …

On June 1, The game of Yokohama Baystars vs Saitama Seibu Lions has been made at Seibu Prince Dome. In the game Elian Herrera of Baystars was the first appearance, and Starting pitcher was Kenta Ishida（Baystars）and Yusei Kikuchi（Seibu）. Up to 5th inning both pitcher is nice pitching, the score was 0-0. But Ishida gave 2 four balls …

On this day  interleague play has started, there was a game of Yomiuri Giants vs Orix buffaloes at Osaka Dome,May 31. Shinnosuke Abe（Giants）was played for the first time this season. Abe is 37-years old born in 1979, he joined Yomiuri Giants in 2000. His position is catcher, played as a regular from the rookie’s season. …

There was a game of Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters vs Tohoku Rakuten Eagles at Rakuten Kobo Stadium Miyagi, May 29. Starting pitcher of Fighers is Shohei Otani. Pacific League has adopted the designated hitter, but Otani entered the batting order as 6th hitter. Otani was reduced to 1 points the opponent up to 7 inning, and  took 3 hits …

It become clear that Kei Igawa will play in Japanese Independent League, on May 25. Igawa is a 36-year-old of born 1979, he joined the Hanshin Tigers in 1997. Igawa has been the most praise in 2003, he performed 20 wins and ERA 2.80 so contributed to the victory of Tigers. He also won the title of the …

There are plans Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters to transfer home stadium from Sapporo Dome in 2023. Fighters moved to Sapporo from Tokyo in 2004, was home stadium to the Sapporo Dome. Previously also belong Tsuyoshi Shinjo（Newyork Mets & San Francisco Giants）and Yu Darvish（Texas Rangers）in Fighters, and now Sho Nakata and Shohei Otani, such as Taiwanese Yang-Dai-Kang, popular playeres belong …