“It’s hard to explain,” Kuriyama said afterward, “but to me, it’s as if he is throwing his soul, not the baseball.” Sasaki does not speak often about the tsunami and all he lost ...

Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball’s hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his father and grandparents in Japan’s deadly 2011 tsunami. The 23-year-old ...

But for one young survivor of the 2011 tsunami disaster, an earlier encounter with “Ma-kun” proved more valuable than any baseball championship. Tatsuki Sakamoto still keeps a dirt-stained ...

Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball's hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his father and grandparents in Japan's deadly 2011 tsunami. The 23-year-old ...

And the two friends both played baseball. Tsurushima and Sasaki joined ... On March 11 the following year, the tsunami swamped the coast of the Tohoku region. Tsurushima lost his mother in the ...

Rookies of the Rakuten Eagles baseball club lay flowers at ... one of the places devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, on Saturday. The rookies of the club, based ...

Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball’s hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his father and grandparents in Japan’s deadly 2011 tsunami. The 23-year ...

TOKYO — Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball's hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his father and grandparents in Japan's deadly 2011 tsunami. Friday, ...