Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who leads the NL in strikeouts and is second in ERA, becomes the first Japanese player picked for baseball’s All-Star game.

1988 — Steffi Graf ends Martina Navratilova’s six-year reign as Wimbledon champion with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory. It is the first time in nine finals that Navratilova loses a Wimbledon singles match.

Reynolds, the second player in history to hit home runs in three consecutive innings, had two inside-the-park homers. 1933 — Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 in an ...

Some have questioned why Hideo Kojima does not generally use Japanese actors in the production of his blockbuster games. In an interview with IGN Japan, explained here via Video Game Chronicle, the ...

Earlier in the week, the Yankees had seen Mariano Rivera get walked off, then saw an inspired ninth-inning rally fall ...

Hideo Nomo's story to come play in MLB paved the way for so many other Japanese stars, all while being absolutely dominant in his first season ...

1917 — Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds pitched complete-game victories in a doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Toney threw a three-hitter in each game for 4-1 and 5-1 wins, setting a ...

One of LA's most prized civic institutions - the Los Angeles Dodgers -- is now caught up in the debate over high-profile ...

Immaculate innings are one of the rarest occurrences in Major League Baseball. To give you an idea, of the 11,690 pitchers ...

When Hideo Nomo debuted for the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 2, 1995, he was only the second Japanese-born player to appear in the majors, and the first in 30 years. The maneuvering needed to reach ...

In Japan, however, leaning on talented starting pitchers was commonplace. By 1994, the years of overuse led to a shoulder injury that limited Nomo to 114 innings.

Although Japan established its own pro circuit, Nippon Professional Baseball, in the 1930s, until the mid-1990s, only one Japanese-born player had ever crossed the Pacific to appear in an MLB game.