Kurihara’s milestone 1,000th hit wins it for Carp
Kenta Kurihara had a thousand reasons to be happy about his RBI single that helped the Hiroshima Carp beat the Yomiuri Giants at The Zoom on Friday.
It was his not only Central League-leading 65th RBI this season, but the 1,000 hit of his six-year career. And it was the difference in 1-0 win over the Giants.
Lefty Junpei Shinoda (5-5) was probably just as happy. He worked 7.2 innings of shutout ball, yielding just three hits and two walks, for his first win over the Giants this season.
“They’d gotten the best of me all this year, so my mind-set when I took the mound was to get them back tonight,” Shinoda said in the hero interview.
Dennis Sarfate walked the leadoff man in the ninth -- pinch-hitter Shinnosuke Abe -- but fanned a pair to close it out for his Japan-best 32nd save.
The Carp pinned the loss on Yomiuri rookie Hirokazau Sawamura (6-9), who allowed just one run over seven innings, but fell to 1-2 vs. the Carp, against whom the Giants are 10-5.
TIGERS 9, SWALLOWS 4
Yasutomo Kubo (7-4) fanned 10 and held Yakult to two runs over seven innings as Hanshin won the first game at its Koshien Stadium home after its road trip of death.
Kubo broke the club record by winning his ninth straight decision against the Swallows.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
LIONS 4, FIGHTERS 3
Takeya Nakamura slugged a pair of longballs, his Japan-best 31st and 32nd of the season, and Tatsuyuki Uemoto’s walk-off single won it in the 10th as Seibu sent visiting Nippon Ham to its fourth straight loss.
Nakamura had three RBIs to take over the PL RBI lead with 73, and rookie Kazuhisa Makita (3-7) earned his first win since being moved to the back of the bullpen with a perfect 10th.
EAGLES 2, HAWKS 0
Rookie lefty Takahiro Shiomi (6-7) went 6.2 scoreless innings and Kensuke Uchimura drove in the game’s only runs with a fifth-inning single as host Rakuten won its sixth straight, its third in a row over SoftBank.
Shiomi scattered five hits with no walks to tie for the PL lead in rookie wins.
BUFFALOES 3, MARINES 1
Hisao Arakane’s tiebreaking RBI single helped lift Orix over visiting Lotte, which has lost four straight.
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Kurihara’s milestone 1,000th hit wins it for Carp
Kenta Kurihara had a thousand reasons to be happy about his RBI single that helped the Hiroshima Carp beat the Yomiuri Giants at The Zoom on Friday.
It was his not only Central League-leading 65th RBI this season, but the 1,000 hit of his six-year career. And it was the difference in 1-0 win over the Giants.
Lefty Junpei Shinoda (5-5) was probably just as happy. He worked 7.2 innings of shutout ball, yielding just three hits and two walks, for his first win over the Giants this season.
“They’d gotten the best of me all this year, so my mind-set when I took the mound was to get them back tonight,” Shinoda said in the hero interview.
Dennis Sarfate walked the leadoff man in the ninth -- pinch-hitter Shinnosuke Abe -- but fanned a pair to close it out for his Japan-best 32nd save.
The Carp pinned the loss on Yomiuri rookie Hirokazau Sawamura (6-9), who allowed just one run over seven innings, but fell to 1-2 vs. the Carp, against whom the Giants are 10-5.
TIGERS 9, SWALLOWS 4
Yasutomo Kubo (7-4) fanned 10 and held Yakult to two runs over seven innings as Hanshin won the first game at its Koshien Stadium home after its road trip of death.
Kubo broke the club record by winning his ninth straight decision against the Swallows.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
LIONS 4, FIGHTERS 3
Takeya Nakamura slugged a pair of longballs, his Japan-best 31st and 32nd of the season, and Tatsuyuki Uemoto’s walk-off single won it in the 10th as Seibu sent visiting Nippon Ham to its fourth straight loss.
Nakamura had three RBIs to take over the PL RBI lead with 73, and rookie Kazuhisa Makita (3-7) earned his first win since being moved to the back of the bullpen with a perfect 10th.
EAGLES 2, HAWKS 0
Rookie lefty Takahiro Shiomi (6-7) went 6.2 scoreless innings and Kensuke Uchimura drove in the game’s only runs with a fifth-inning single as host Rakuten won its sixth straight, its third in a row over SoftBank.
Shiomi scattered five hits with no walks to tie for the PL lead in rookie wins.
BUFFALOES 3, MARINES 1
Hisao Arakane’s tiebreaking RBI single helped lift Orix over visiting Lotte, which has lost four straight.