American League All-Star Yu Darvish getting ready for All-Star game (Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) 2012 MLB All Star game took place in Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium last week, and Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish won in online “Final Vote” fan voting to become 9th Japanese player to represent a league in MLB All Star game. [...]
Yu Darvish pitched 8 and 1/3 innings of no-run game with 10 strikeouts against New York Yankees. Darvish is 3-0 with a 2.42 ERA for the season. (Photo by Mike Stone/Reuters) NOTE: updated with Hisashi Iwakuma and Yu Darvish facing off on Sept. 14, 2012, And Daisuke Matsuzaka vs Hiroki Kuroda match up on Oct [...]
Yu Darvish of Japan pitches against Korea during the 2009 World Baseball Classic (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images) Asahi.com’s Rob Smaal lists some of the players who may make the jump to the MLB in 2012 season in his article “Get ready for an MLB arms race“. What a list. Pitchers Yu Darvish (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham [...]
I was reading Patrick Newman’s NPB Tracker (excellent blog) and his entry caught my eyes: Darvish K’s 1000, Iwakuma Throws 147, Kanemoto Still Runs. First, Yu Darvish, who is very likely to come to U.S. next season, has struck out 1,000 hitters in his 7th season. He reached the milestone in 1,058 and 2/3 innings [...]
Boy, those west-coast late night games are tough. Especially the Red Sox are notorious for long games (as Bill Simmons of ESPN points out, in first 101 games of 2010 Red Sox had only one game that took less than 2 hours and 30 min., 41 games between 2:31-3:00, and rest of 59 games took [...]
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