Murton hits in 27th straight but Tigers fall
Hanshin’s Matt Murton was like most hitters early this season, struggling with the new low-impact ball and trying to find a degree of success. Murton has found a level of success lately.
The Tigers have, too. Just not on Saturday.
Murton hit in his 27th straight game, but the visiting
Tigers fell 3-2 to the cellar-dwelling Yokohama BayStars to see their four-game winning streak snapped.
Takeshi Hosoyamada’s two-run, clutch single gave the BayStars a dramatic comeback win for their fourth walk-off. It was Hosoyamada’s first pro sayonara hit, and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo blasted his eighth homer as Yokohama won its fourth game of the month.
Murton went 1-for-4, and moved up to ninth on the all-time list for hitting streaks. He is one behind Shinjiro Hiyama for the longest hitting streak in club history.
GIANTS 4, DRAGONS 0
Rookie Hirokazu Sawamura (10-11) won his 10th game in style, firing a 106-pitch one-hitter for his first shutout as Yomiuri blanked Chunichi at Nagoya Dome.
Sawamura became the first Giants hurler since Hiroshi Kisanuki to throw a shutout as a rookie, stretching his scoreless streak at Nagoya Dome to 19 consecutive innings in just two starts.
Hayato Sakamoto had three hits, including a two-run single in a three-run fourth.
CARP 7, SWALLOWS 4
Ryuhei Matsuyama broke a 3-3 tie with a two-run
homer in the eighth and red-hot Kenta Kurihara stroked three hits and drove in three as Hiroshima snapped an eight-game skid by knocking off Yakult at Jingu Stadium.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
FIGHTERS 1, LIONS 0
Second-year import Bobby Keppel (13-6) held Seibu to three hits over seven innings for his 13th win in Japan, and Hisashi Takeda closed it out for his Japan-best 37th -- and club-record 103rd -- save as Nippon Ham shut out the Lions at home.
Sho Nakata’s RBI single was the game's only run. The shutout was a franchise-record 23rd of the season.
EAGLES 8, MARINES 0
Masahiro Tanaka (18-5) fired his fifth shutout of the season, a six-hitter that lowered his PL-leading ERA to 1.33 in a victory over Lotte at The Kleenex Box.
Tanaka fanned seven and walked one, and got more than enough offense as Kensuke Uchimura led five players with multi-hit games, collecting three hits and two RBIs. It was Tanaka’s 40th win at Kleenex.
HAWKS 5, BUFFALOES 0
Toshiya Sugiuchi (8-7) tied a club record with seven straight Ks, and worked six hitless innings with 10 strikeouts to help SoftBank hit a six-year by moving 40 games over .500 with a shutout of Orix at home.
SoftBank set a club record for shutouts in a season with its 28th. Hitoshi Tamura had a homer and an RBI single to drive in three for the Hawks.
[Edited by: jgibson on Oct 9, 2011 2:17 PM]
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Hanshin’s Matt Murton was like most hitters early this season, struggling with the new low-impact ball and trying to find a degree of success. Murton has found a level of success lately.
The Tigers have, too. Just not on Saturday.
Murton hit in his 27th straight game, but the visiting
Tigers fell 3-2 to the cellar-dwelling Yokohama BayStars to see their four-game winning streak snapped.
Takeshi Hosoyamada’s two-run, clutch single gave the BayStars a dramatic comeback win for their fourth walk-off. It was Hosoyamada’s first pro sayonara hit, and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo blasted his eighth homer as Yokohama won its fourth game of the month.
Murton went 1-for-4, and moved up to ninth on the all-time list for hitting streaks. He is one behind Shinjiro Hiyama for the longest hitting streak in club history.
GIANTS 4, DRAGONS 0
Rookie Hirokazu Sawamura (10-11) won his 10th game in style, firing a 106-pitch one-hitter for his first shutout as Yomiuri blanked Chunichi at Nagoya Dome.
Sawamura became the first Giants hurler since Hiroshi Kisanuki to throw a shutout as a rookie, stretching his scoreless streak at Nagoya Dome to 19 consecutive innings in just two starts.
Hayato Sakamoto had three hits, including a two-run single in a three-run fourth.
CARP 7, SWALLOWS 4
Ryuhei Matsuyama broke a 3-3 tie with a two-run
homer in the eighth and red-hot Kenta Kurihara stroked three hits and drove in three as Hiroshima snapped an eight-game skid by knocking off Yakult at Jingu Stadium.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
FIGHTERS 1, LIONS 0
Second-year import Bobby Keppel (13-6) held Seibu to three hits over seven innings for his 13th win in Japan, and Hisashi Takeda closed it out for his Japan-best 37th -- and club-record 103rd -- save as Nippon Ham shut out the Lions at home.
Sho Nakata’s RBI single was the game's only run. The shutout was a franchise-record 23rd of the season.
EAGLES 8, MARINES 0
Masahiro Tanaka (18-5) fired his fifth shutout of the season, a six-hitter that lowered his PL-leading ERA to 1.33 in a victory over Lotte at The Kleenex Box.
Tanaka fanned seven and walked one, and got more than enough offense as Kensuke Uchimura led five players with multi-hit games, collecting three hits and two RBIs. It was Tanaka’s 40th win at Kleenex.
HAWKS 5, BUFFALOES 0
Toshiya Sugiuchi (8-7) tied a club record with seven straight Ks, and worked six hitless innings with 10 strikeouts to help SoftBank hit a six-year by moving 40 games over .500 with a shutout of Orix at home.
SoftBank set a club record for shutouts in a season with its 28th. Hitoshi Tamura had a homer and an RBI single to drive in three for the Hawks.
[Edited by: jgibson on Oct 9, 2011 2:17 PM]