19/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Premier12 2019: better pitching, closer games, more emotions

The pitching level in 2019 was significantly better than in 2015, marking also an increment in the level of play.

19/11/2019 2 Minute Read

Samurai Japan, the history of a success

The II Premier12 2019 was another major accomplishment for the Japanese Baseball National Team or Samurai Japan

18/11/2019 1 Minute Read

WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari, NPB Commissioner Atsushi Saito agree: "More international baseball"

The Premier12 formula allows to acknowledge the whole of a baseball programme. Everybody will remember the excitment of the Tokyo Dome crowds

18/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Seiya Suzuki tops Premier12 2019 individual stats

The Samurai Japan right fielder earned five individual titles: batting average, runs batted in, runs scored, slugging and on-base

17/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Kim Kyungmoon: “We must keep working to compete and win the Olympic Games”

“Nobody is happy finishing second place in an important tournament like this”

17/11/2019 2 Minute Read

Atsunori Inaba: “Winning the Premier12 and the Olympics has been our goal the last two years”

Tonight Inaba won his first title as the Samurai Japan skipper

17/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Japan's Seiya Suzuki leads amazing All World Team

Japan's Seiya Suzuki was named the MVP and was picked as the right fielder for the WBSC All-World Team

17/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Japan beat Korea, climb on top of the world

Tetsuto Yamada put Japan ahead in the bottom of the second with a three-run home run. Six pitchers limited Korea to three hits over the course of eight innings. Japan's Seiya Suzuki named the tournament MVP

17/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Mexico heads to the Olympics, makes history

"Baseball in our Country has accomplished a lot, but nothing of the sort," commented Federation President Enrique Mayorga. "This is really historic."

17/11/2019 1 Minute Read

Efren Navarro: “This is historic for Mexico”

Clark hit a clutch home run in the ninth inning to tie the game, while Navarro hit the game-winning RBI single in the tenth to send Mexico to the Olympics

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