FUKUOKA--Dancing robot dogs named Spot and Pepper humanoid robots have been cheering on the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks baseball team in the absence of flesh and blood fans and cheerleaders. The ...

The Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks will open their 2025 season with ... Wednesday that its season will open the same day. Each team will play 143 games in the regular season.

Head coach Craig Baumann has high expectations for anyone who plays for the Chaska baseball team. After the Hawks finished the 2021 season with an 11-11 record, a fourth-place finish in the ...

Tomoya Masaki hit a 10th-inning home run to lift the Pacific League-leading SoftBank Hawks to a 6-5 come-from ... Kurihara and Hotaka Yamakawa. Neither team had many opportunities after that.

YOKOHAMA—The Yokohama DeNA BayStars completed a remarkable playoff run by trouncing the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks ... drought among the 12 teams in Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kawasaki originally signed with Seattle on a minor league contract after an 11-year stint in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Kawasaki played 61 games for the ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring ... The Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks and the CL champion Yomiuri Giants, who acquired former New ...

Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo heads to a meeting of managers of the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams ... Ham's Pacific League rivals, the SoftBank Hawks, in December, a season ...