Swallows stop latest slide to keep CL race tight
The Yakult Swallows didn’t exactly feast on home cooking, but they walked away feeling satisfied and happy with a 1-0 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Friday night.
Third-year pro Katsuki Akagawa (6-1) held Hiroshima off the board over 8.1 innings, and Lim Chang Yang extracted him from a jam in the ninth for his 31st save.
The win snapped a three-game slide for the Swallows, who this week fell out of first place for the first time since the end of May. They are a half-game back of Chunichi.
Ryoji Aikawa drove in the game’s only run with a seventh-inning single.
GIANTS 4, DRAGONS 4
Yoshinobu Takahashi’s two-run double capped a four-run rally as Yomiuri came back to tie Chunichi and earn an unlikely draw at Nagoya Dome.
TIGERS 4, BAYSTARS 0
Minoru Iwata (9-12) had one of the best games of his career, tossing a two-hitter and driving in the game-winning run with a fifth-inning squeeze as Hanshin blanked host Yokohama.
Matt Murton went 1-for-4, his infield single in the fourth helping him surpass Randy Bass for the longest Hanshin hitting streak for an import at 26 games. He is tied for the second-longest hitting streak in club history.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
MARINES 9, EAGLES 4
Tadahito Iguchi homered and drove in three as Lotte beat up on host Rakuten.
Swallows stop latest slide to keep CL race tight
The Yakult Swallows didn’t exactly feast on home cooking, but they walked away feeling satisfied and happy with a 1-0 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Friday night.
Third-year pro Katsuki Akagawa (6-1) held Hiroshima off the board over 8.1 innings, and Lim Chang Yang extracted him from a jam in the ninth for his 31st save.
The win snapped a three-game slide for the Swallows, who this week fell out of first place for the first time since the end of May. They are a half-game back of Chunichi.
Ryoji Aikawa drove in the game’s only run with a seventh-inning single.
GIANTS 4, DRAGONS 4
Yoshinobu Takahashi’s two-run double capped a four-run rally as Yomiuri came back to tie Chunichi and earn an unlikely draw at Nagoya Dome.
TIGERS 4, BAYSTARS 0
Minoru Iwata (9-12) had one of the best games of his career, tossing a two-hitter and driving in the game-winning run with a fifth-inning squeeze as Hanshin blanked host Yokohama.
Matt Murton went 1-for-4, his infield single in the fourth helping him surpass Randy Bass for the longest Hanshin hitting streak for an import at 26 games. He is tied for the second-longest hitting streak in club history.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
MARINES 9, EAGLES 4
Tadahito Iguchi homered and drove in three as Lotte beat up on host Rakuten.