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May 1, 2021
Wednesday marked three months until the start of the Tokyo Olympic baseball tournament assuming the coronavirus doesn’t blow another fastball past the organizers, who, if we’re being honest, are probably sitting on a 2-2 count at best.
Let’s assume, however, the games will take place.
The original plan for Samurai Japan was to use the Premier12 in November 2019 as a final testing ground and head into the Olympics the following summer. That was before the postponement of the games in March 2020.
It’s now been over a year since Samurai Japan’s victory over South Korea in the Premier12 final. The extra time has given manager Atsunori Inaba more things to think about as he goes about building a squad that can capture Japan’s first Olympic gold medal in baseball.
Dec 18, 2020
One long reign continued while another came to an end at the 49th edition of the Mitsui Golden Glove Awards.
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks led all teams with four players selected as the top defensive specialists at their position when the winners were announced at a Tokyo hotel on Friday afternoon.
Ryosuke Kikuchi, the Hiroshima Carp s dynamic second baseman, led all players with 283 votes and won the Mitsui Golden Glove in the Central League for the eighth straight year after a historic season in the Carp infield. This is my eighth time to win and each time I ve just been so happy to win, Kikuchi said. “I kind of feel like I have a responsibility to get it again next year.