Softball returned to the Games for the first time since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. But it's not on the program for Paris in 2024. The six-team tournament featured defending Olympic champion Japan ...

On home soil, in an event their nation rescued from a state of Olympic neglect specifically for these Games, Japan’s softball team delivered a near-flawless defensive performance to defeat the United ...

The Tokyo Olympics finally began on Wednesday with softball matches in an empty stadium in Fukushima. Host country Japan's women's softball team won the opening game, thrashing Australia in a boost ...

I wonder if, as Caitlin Lowe grounded out to third base earlier today, some Japanese play-by-play announcer was shouting the Japanese equivalent of “Do you believe in miracles, yes!” Or if he went ...