Kei Igawa News

In light of the pending switch to the American League, each week TCB is helping you adjust to the trauma, breaking down a particular topic each week...Next up we look at Japanese sensation and Texas Ranger Yu Darvish .

Yankees Hiroki Kuroda earned his sixth loss of the season last night against the lowly Kansas City Royals.A Kuroda's first inning woes continued as he gave up a single and a two-run homer to spot the 17-24 Royals a 2-0 lead.A The Yankees lost the game 6-0. If you've been a fan for a few years you know that the Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman ... (more)

Left-hander Kei Igawa made his first start back in Japan in six years, but the New York Yankee throwaway left early with an injury in the Orix Buffaloes' 1-0 defeat to the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks on Wednesday.

Inside the locker room of the Yankees' spring-training home in Tampa, Kuroda, more than a little confused, is looking at Nimura.

On the night of the Kuroda-Darvish confrontation, neither pitcher wanted to make too big a deal of it, but when all is said and done on their careers, they may look back and say it was a meeting of the two most successful Japanese pitchers in MLB history.