Major League Baseball investigated to ensure no team had an advance deal in place for Roki Sasaki, and the agent for the ...

Camden Yards may have had trouble with its electricity last night, but there was no lack of sparks and power on the field. After a 43-minute power outage delayed the start of the game, Boston pitcher ...

Major League Baseball investigated to ensure no team had an advance deal in place for Roki Sasaki, and the agent for the ...

Paul Skenes was named National League Rookie of the Year on Monday night, following an amazing rookie season for the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher.Skenes topped the other finalists, San Diego Padres ...

You wouldn't have been able to tell that Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes capped off one of the greatest first seasons by a pitcher in MLB ... handed pitcher Hideo Nomo in 1995.

Skenes was also the first rookie pitcher to start an All-Star game since Dodgers right-hander Hideo Nomo in 1995.

Heck, A.J. speaks Japanese. They worked to learn Japanese to work to recruit [Shohei] Ohtani years ago. I know they got really close there. We got [former pitcher Hideo] Nomo in the organization that ...

We got [former pitcher and Japanese baseball legend [Hideo] Nomo in the organization. So, we’ve got a lot of inroads to get to Sasaki and make that happen. I know we’re going to put the full ...

Nomo even provided his own run support with an RBI single in the eighth inning. He later became just the fourth pitcher to throw a no-hitter in both the AL and NL. In what was the Dodgers’ sixth ...

but he was also just the fifth rookie pitcher to ever start the midsummer classic. He joined Hideo Nomo, Fernando Valenzuela, Mark Fidrych and Dave Stenhouse in doing so. Skenes was also the ...