Hirokazu Ibata has accepted the offer to stay on as Samurai Japan manager through the 2026 World Baseball Classic, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. When the 49-year-old Ibata ...

An estimated 1,200 appreciative fans cheered and greeted members of Samurai Japan, which clinched its third championship in the World Baseball Classic, upon their return to Japan on March 23.

In the locker room at loanDepot Park in Miami, Samurai Japan members huddled together, ready to take on the defending champion United States in the final of the World Baseball Classic. Japan ...

the Samurai Japan team beat the US defending champions in a thrilling 3-2 win in Miami. It is the third WBC championship for the baseball-crazed nation- but just its first since 2009. In the end ...

Samurai Japan took a 4-0 first-inning lead behind lefty Takahisa Hayakawa, only for Taiwan to threaten to overturn the game with a run in the third and two more in the fifth on back-to-back bases ...

Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki was posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball as expected as the Winter ...