The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has died, the team said Feb. 19.

The Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez, who spent all of last season pitching in Japan with the Yakult Swallows, to a big-league contract Friday.

The Brewers are in enough of a pitching bind that Elvin Rodriguez, a reliever with the Yakult Swallows in Japan last year, started Monday's home opener as a quasi-opener.

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball have signed right-hander Pedro Avila, according to multiple reports out of Japan. Avila elected free agency in January rather than accept ...

The Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez, who spent all of last season pitching in Japan with the Yakult Swallows, to a big-league contract Friday.

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee who portrayed the team’s beloved mascot Tsubakuro has died, the Central League club announced on Wednesday.

The Brewers were awarded the negotiating rights to Aoki on December 19 after the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Japanese Central League accepted the highest bid. The team had until 4 p.m. Tuesday to ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows have signed right-hander A.J. Cole to a one-year contract worth roughly $800.4K. Though Cole has worked almost exclusively as a reliever in recent years, the Swallows ...

The festival-like atmosphere resurfaced later in the inning, after a two-run home run by Domingo Santana gave the Tokyo Yakult Swallows a one-run lead and brought the majority of the 24,565 in ...

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike fractured a bone in her knee after throwing out the first pitch at a Yakult Swallows baseball game when her foot slipped on the mound as the ball bounced its way to the ...

The fans know them by heart, sing in unison and generate a cacophony of noise. On one wet summer evening in Tokyo, we saw Yakult Swallows play local rivals, Yomiuri Giants, at their home ground.