Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. The Japanese triple crown winner delivered a walk-off double in a 6-5 thriller against Mexico on March 20 ...

On Oct. 3, Murakami, a.k.a. "MuraGod," clubbed his 56th home run of the season, the Nippon Professional Baseball record ... He maintained his hold on the triple crown (tops in home runs, RBIs ...

Major League Baseball aspirant Tomoyuki Sugano became ... A year after he barely missed winning the PL Triple Crown, Kondo won the PL batting title, and led the league in walks, on-base percentage ...

Ahead of their game against the Texas Rangers, Kike Hernandez paid a touching tribute to teammate and Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Just behind the locals is the Land of the Rising Sun with 42 entries, the most notable being Almond Eye, who recently completed the Japan Fillies’ Triple Crown and has strung together five ...