Hosts Japan hoisted their coach and waved to mostly empty stands to celebrate their second straight gold medal in softball on Tuesday by beating the United States 2-0 at the Tokyo Games ...

USA scored first ... World Title for Japan. It's Japan's fourth Women's Baseball World Title, the first after 2014. Japan finished second at the 2016 and 2018 Women's Softball World Cups and ...

The gold-medal game will be a rematch of the 2008 Beijing gold-medal game in which Japan was victorious, 3-1. The two softball powerhouses are the only two teams to have captured Olympic gold. The ...

This one was a pitchers' duel as well, with the only run scored through a walk-off single from Eri Yamada. Japan improves to 4-0, the same record as Team USA. The two teams meet to finish pool play on ...

YOKOHAMA--Hosts Japan beat Canada 1-0 in an extra-inning thriller on a sun-baked turf on Sunday to set up a highly-anticipated Olympic softball final with the United States. Unbeaten sides United ...